…As parents, students differ on prolonged strike…
As the industrial action of Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, entered its second month, former executive secretary, National Universities Commission NUC, Professor Peter Okebukola has stated that the NEEDS report justifies the demands of ASUU.

The national minimum wage is in the news again. This time, the issue is whether or not to have it retained on the exclusive list or to have it on the concurrent list. The NLC and the TUC have threatened a strike if it is placed on the concurrent list. Labour Vanguard opens a forum for this discussion for proponents and opponents of the new move. Informed contributions on this issue are welcome.

ABUJA—THE Federal Government has said that the sum of N109.4 billion has been provided to the universities, polytechnics and Colleges of Education under the high impact initiatives of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund.

Major General Sam Momah served as the Minister of Science and Technology during the administrations of Generals Sani Abacha and Abdulsalami Abubakar, and carved a niche for himself by creating what has come to be known as “Technology Incubation Centres” to help Nigeria in her drive for technological advancement and industrialisation.

On June 3, 2009, Professor Boniface Egboka emerged the 4th substantive vice-chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, NAU Awka, for a five-year term which ends in June next year. In this chat with Vanguard Learning in Awka, Egboka speaks on the journey so far, how the university has maintained a steady academic calendar and raised funds for capital projects. Excerpts:

Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) has stated that his administration is conceiving the idea of transforming the duo of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin, AOCOED, and Micheal Otedola College of Primary Education- Epe, MOCPED, to university degree awarding institutions as effort to amplify quality training in the state’s institutions is taking different shapes.

ABUJA—PARENTS, under the umbrella of Parents Teachers Progressive Forum, PTPF, have appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to reconsider its position on the on-going strike in the interest of the Nigerian students, the education sector and the nation at large.

DIRECTOR, Whitefield High School, Mr. Luke Onyeanula, has faulted the recent United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ,UNESCO, report that about 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria, saying that the advent of private schools has been a boost to the education sector.

Professor Itse Sagay SAN, a foremost constitutional lawyer, in this interview spoke on the on going constitution amendment by the National Assembly, the Rivers crisis and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, one year in office excerpts.

A monarch in Ogun State, the Onilogbo of Ilogbo in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area, Oba Samuel Olufemi Ojugbele, has canvassed for the teaching of indigenous languages in private schools in the state, saying only the mastery of the mother tongue would ensure proficiency in both written and spoken English.