It’s amazing how time flies. What’s more amazing is how time changes style. Trends that once belonged to the class of geeks have now become common place for the crème de la crème of campus fashion. Today, Quadlifestyle focuses on these geeky trends.

In a conscious effort to address the numerous problems facing the nation’s educational sector, stakeholders within the sector gathered at a two-day conference to x-ray the issues affecting the development of education in Nigeria and find efficient ways of addressing them.

If we can produce our drugs locally with raw materials sourced from our environment, definitely the cost of drugs, and subsequently, money spent on healthcare, will reduce. So researchers like Dr. (Mrs) Uche Kanife, a senior lecturer in the Department of Biological Science, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, are working hard to see that they get local alternatives to some imported drugs using medicinal plants and fungal organisms. In this chat with Vanguard Learning in Lagos, Kanife talks about her work on the ergot fungus, Claviceps purpurea from which an important drug is made. Excerpts:

Why do we think the way we do? Why do we feel the way we do? Why do we act or behave the way we do? What determines our results in life? The quality of our lives is determined by our internal guidance system. Your internal guidance system is the regulator of your entire life; everything in your life rises or falls on it.

After the official nnouncement last week Thursday at Abuja by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Executive Registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde and Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, that from 2013, Computer- Based Test (CBT), will be used to conduct UTME, had since received reactions from stakeholders in the sector.