NO fewer than 21 states have now fully embraced the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, a fall-out of the Pension Reform Act, PRA, 2004, which discontinued the flawed Pay As You Go, PAYG, scheme.

A lawmaker, representing Ifako-Ijaiye Constituency I, at the Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA), Hon. Dayo Saka Fafunmi, has tasked Lagos State University Faculty of Law students to be law-abiding citizens and be good ambassadors of their school, wherever they go.

Following a protest embarked upon by students of Benue State University College of Health Sciences over the non-accreditation of the University Teaching Hospital, the Senate swiftly took action, putting the college under lock and key for two weeks. But as the two weeks compulsory break given the students elapsed on Thursday, October 25, 2012, without any sign of resumption, the students have once again lamented their woes.

For every one Nigerian student who will gain admission into an institution of higher learning this year, there are at least two others who will not. It is no wonder, therefore, that the lucky few who will matriculate into the 2012/2013 session are simply thankful to have gotten in. Thankful enough to embark on stressful distances from homes to schools, if possible; thankful enough to squat under atrocious living conditions with their friends on campus hostels; thankful enough to rent off-campus hostels at exorbitant prices and with minimal security.

The Pro-chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council, Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Deacon Gamaliel Onosode has called on the Federal Government to include private universities on its agenda for the development of high level manpower for the nation. He noted that the call was imperative because of the role private institutions play in revamping the education sector.