The 26th day of August 2011 is a day that has carved a niche for itself in the history of University of Calabar, UNICAL. It was a day when a crop of the students’ population from the famous Malabo Republik Students Hostel, came out for a massive protest on the streets of UNICAL, demonstrating, rioting and at the end of the day, damaged properties worth millions of naira, according to the school management’s analysis.

As the 2011/2012 end-of-session examination commences across the campuses of Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, students of the institution are gripped with mixed feelings.

Experts have attributed Nigeria’s poor performance in the London 2012 Olympics to the dearth of sports education in the country. It would be recalled that out of 214 nations that competed in various Olympic events, Nigeria was one of the 84 countries that did not receive any medal.

Vexed by the controversies rocking Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST), the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared today, 30th August 2012 a nationwide strike in solidarity with its members in that institution even as the union indicted the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi over what it described as gross academic misconduct and unconstitutional involvement in the university.

There is no doubting the fact that one of the major causes of educational backwardness in this country is incessant strikes by university lecturers, which are always precipitated by disagreements between government and teachers.