INDICATIONS have emerged that striking members of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) in the nation’s universities, may suspend their ongoing industrial action tomorrow to bring normalcy to the nation’s universities that have been shut down for over three months.

Private Schools abound in Nigeria and their owners are largely seen as uncompromising when it comes to collection of school fees. Infact, as from the second week of a new term, children who are yet to pay their fees could be driven home in order to force their defaulting parents to pay irrespective of whether they have the means of paying or not.

FOR effective and smooth operation in its efforts to give quality education to all Deltans, the Delta State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Asaba has last week commissioned 9 new primary Schools in Ughelli-South Council Area of Delta State.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has decided to accept the promise by the Lagos State Government to pay the new Teachers Salary Scale (TSS) by next year because teachers have no other job as alternative.

In demonstration of its commitment to the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme, the Federal Government has disbursed a whooping sum of N101,250,000.00 to some communities in Akwa Ibom State for the execution of 135 UBE (2008) self-help project.

Although public primary and secondary schools in Lagos State resumed for the 2009/2010 academic session on Tuesday this week following the suspension of the strike by the members of the state wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), the state government may have to contend with another disruption of its schools if it fails to honour its promise to the teachers.

Students of Caleb International College, Lagos, who sat for the May/June Secondary School Certificate Examinations organized by West African Examinations Council (WAEC) put up a superlative performance as they recorded close to 100% in all the core subjects especially English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, as shown by the results recently released.

One of Nigeria’s leading private secondary schools, Westminster College, Lagos, is commencing a university foundation programme in collaboration with the University of Buckingham, UK, starting this October 2009, for which it has taken admission drive to the South-South geo-political zone with Warri as the main centre.

The protracted infighting at the Nigeria French Language Village (NFLV), Ajara, Badagry, an inter-university centre for French studies, between the Director-General, Professor Sam Aje-led management and academic staff has taken a frightening dimension when an investigation panel set up to look into the dispute was allegedly prevented from sitting on arrival.

The school of part time studies brings in so much money. Even the Vice Chancellor has said the part time school is the goose that lays the golden eggs. But again, where is the money. What is being done to better the lives of people in LASU?