In an effort to entrench quality education throughout the region by a collective assessment of the education sub-sector, the BRACED Commission Governors Council held a 2-Day summit in Port-Harcourt aimed at improving education at all levels, guaranting the production of sustainable human capital and an educated labour force, developing adequate and instructional information, communication and other technologies to drive the required change.

Mr. Moses Ndubuisi Nwakanma, a botanist, geneticist and environmental biologist, is a lecturer in the Department of Biological Science, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos. In this chat with Vanguard Learning, Nwakanma whose interest is in medicinal plants like Moringa oleifera, called the Drumstick plant/ tree of life or Miracle tree, Vernonia amygdalina (bitter leaf) and guava, says if we understand plants, we will be happier in our health.

Students of Loral International School, Igbesa campus, have been urged to consider studying business related courses while furthering their education as knowledge acquired from such courses would help them become self reliant in future.

The last is yet to be heard as students of the University of Abuja have disrupted their on-going examinations with the protest of the non-accreditation of three programmes which led to their suspension by the federal government.

Whenever personality is mentioned, there are two sides of the coin which is the “container” and the “content”. Using an analogy; if a bottle of wine has a sophisticated, well designed and attractive bottle (container) but the wine (content) itself is bitter and sour, though people will be attracted to the bottle of wine but when they have a taste of the wine, they are repelled. Hence, the bottle of wine that had previously held their attention becomes a thing that they now distain.