In its bid to improve education standard in Nigeria, MTN staff will for 21 days engage secondary schools students on intensive teaching that will be geared towards strengthening reading culture in school children.

Pressed by the need to be under the cover of a strong professional body that fights their cause without fear or favour, Unity School teachers in the country have returned to the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT even as the body denied association of any kind with Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, ASSUS.

The falling education standard in Nigeria has again been brought to the fore by concerns of stakeholders in the sector who knew what it used to be in the 70s and early 80s.

Students of the University of Ilorin went to the polls last Thursday to elect new leaders to handle its affairs on the 2012/2013 academic session. At the end of the election, Aremu Abdulmalik of the Faculty of Science, emerged as the President.

No fewer that sixty-one students have graduated with first class honours at the 2011/2012 convocation ceremony of Babcock University (BU), Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, weekend, at the university’s Stadium Complex.