In the quest to bring the benefit of management accountancy nearer students and to enhance business decision-making and performance in Nigerian workers, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has restated its commitment to collaborate with higher institutions in Nigeria to improve the quality of professionals in Accountancy.

The Emir of Katsina and Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, His Royal Majesty, Alhaji Abdul-Mumin Kabir Usman, has lauded the transparent manner in which the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Bamitale Omole, is running the affairs of the 50-year-old institution.

FOR some decades now, Nigerians have been lamenting over the poor standard of education in the country which has taken us to a very low level compared with our contemporaries, a situation where majority of schools produce half-baked graduates who are not competitive on the international market so much so that international organisations are no longer willing to employ Nigerian graduates.

Nigeria’s hope of being counted among the technologically advanced nations, is gradually taking shape as her researchers in every field are coming up with inventions and innovations geared towards solving local problems. Little drops, they say, make a mighty ocean, and practice makes perfect.

The Federal Government has commenced holistic review of the National Policy on Education in tandem with the nation’s transformation process. Executive Secretary of Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) and Chairman of the High Level Committee on Updating the National Policy on Education, Professor Godswill Obioma, said the current policy on education was deficient in view of the present-day realities and emerging issues affecting the education sector.