Bothered by the yearly failures of our secondary school students in their Senior School Certificate Examinations, SSCE, the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has swung into action to tackle the downward trends by organising national trainings for secondary school teachers, beginning with Lagos State.

SENIOR Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, has called on the Federal Government to comprehensively bailout universities by paying up the arrears of the Earned Allowances from 2009 up to 2013.

FEDERAL Government decision to get the National Assembly to pass into law a bill seeking to empower security agents to intercept and record electronic communications between individuals and seize usage data from internet service providers and mobile networks has raised concerns in legal circles.

When we came in, less than three per cent of Osun students sitting external examinations were considered matricable. By any yardstick or standard, this sector was dead. Look at the consequence of that particular sector– the pupils, the system, the environment. The teachers refused to teach and to impact knowledge. And for them to be effective, many things must come to play. Teachers must be interested and be encouraged to teach. Also, the pupil that finds himself in an unacceptable learning environment is unable to learn.

A delegation from the Wolverhampton University, United Kingdom (UK), led by its Vice-Chancellor, Professor Geoff Layer, has paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, to explore collaboration with the Commission in the area of entrepreneurship studies.

The Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Dr. Musa Babayo, has disclosed that N300 billion meant for tertiary institutions, was lying idle in TETFund’s Project Account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

The inaugural Public Policy lecture series titled, Building Credible Electoral Process for Democratic Sustainability being put together by the alumni association of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru, AANI, will hold on March 11, 2014 at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Lagos.

The Sergius Oseasochie Ogun Foundation has offset the 2014 NECO/WAEC enrolment fees for 550 students drawn from Esan North and Esan South East local government areas of Edo State.

Old Students’ Association of Ife-Oluwa Grammar School, (IOGS) Osogbo, Osun State, has urged the state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola to quickly renovate dilapidated structures in the school which his administration recently classified as a middle school in its on going reforms in the education sector.

The Rivers State Government says it will host the 2014 National French Competition for secondary school students in the country later this year. The Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi stated this while welcoming the Director of Alliance Française, Port Harcourt, Mrs Helene Okutue and the executive members of Nigerian Association of French Teachers (NAFT) in her office in Port Harcourt.