Chairman, Senate Committee of Federal Capital Territory, Senator Smart Adeyemi, has said government schools can still regain its past glory if the Federal Government can improve funding and infrastructures to the schools.

No doubt, the Nigerian music industry is a force to be reckoned with internationally. Classrooms are filled with youngsters whose mentors are the singing sensations on their television screens. Is music education meeting up with the task of providing quality for the booming industry, or are music teachers still stuck in singing “do, re, mi.” Dr. Bababtunde Sosan is the Acting Director, Muson School of Music, Lagos. In a chat with Vanguard Learning, he talks on the trends in music education.

‘I begged for them to kill me because the pain was too much to bear’, the victim of Abia State University August 16 gang rape testified. This young girl was molested sexually for over an hour by persons suspected to be cultists. That incident was only a demonstration of the fact that our campuses as not as safe as we think them to be.

The Ogun State Government has presented cash awards to some teachers who emerged winners at the “2012 Presidential Teachers and School Excellence Award” held in Abuja last year.

In its bid to celebrate and inspire past winners of Spelling Bee Competition known as Council of One Day Governors (CODG), President, New Era Foundation, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, has charged the One-Day governors to aspire for greatness and be willing to give back to the country.