Education stakeholders are divided on the decision taken by the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, to commence a solidarity strike in support of striking university lecturers.

The Rector, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, Dr. M.K. Ladipo has called on professionals and academics to find a solution to the dearth of infrastructure in the country. She said this at the 4th inaugural lecture of the college recently.

Wale Afebioye, an executive director and business development executive of Premier College, Ijebu- Ode, in this interview with journalists addresses vital issues facing Nigeria’s education sector. He also disclosed his ambition to reposition Premier College to bridge the gap between academics and professional technicalities. Excerpts:

At last, the Sovereign authorities have accepted the need for a National Conference. Civil society in Nigeria has always insisted that only the People of Nigeria can authenticate, legitimize and endorse a Constitution to govern their affairs. Unfortunately, this simple wish was always denied by the colonial, military and even elected government. So President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Independence Declaration is a major milestone.

Former Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Richard Akinjide, SAN, has revealed the genesis of Nigeria’s problems and the basis upon which she got her independence.

Raining and rainy are derived from rain. You can say either ‘It’s raining’ or ‘It’s rainy’. Raining is ‘water is coming down from the clouds’. Rainy is an adjective. The weather is rainy when it rains. A rainy period of time is when it rains a lot. The choice of either raining or rainy depends on context. The question is ‘Which is better according to context?’ Note that raining is used in the idiom ‘It’s raining cats and dogs’ (meaning it is raining very hard) and rainy in ‘Save (something) for a rainy day’ (meaning ‘to save something, especially money for a time when you will need it’).

In this manner of conceptualizing events, history could be said to be unrestricted by space and time.’ The authors further opine that ‘history and historical events are not amorphous or shapeless occurrences. On the contrary, historical events and processes possess uniqueness which marks them as much the product of the past and of particular places, as they are sufficiently differentiated from their antecedents. Such uniqueness of history provides both the basis for a break from either the past or from events of other places as well as the basis of a completely new future history.

STUDENTS from Troika School, Lekki, Zamani College, Kaduna, Alofos Foundation, Surulere and Ilado Community Junior High School, Ikoyi will represent Nigeria at the world Olympia holding in Jakarta, Indonesia in November 2013.

TO build a healthy environment and help meet item 7 of the MDGs by 2015, a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Covenant University (CU), Ota, Ogun State, Dr David Olukanni and his team have come up with an optimized pilot-scale wastewater treatment system, a cost-effective waste management and treatment process for developing nations.

The year 1999 will remain a landmark year in the history of Nigeria. Most of us remember it as the year the military returned government for the second time after almost 16 years since the coup of 1983 which brought an end to the Second Republic. The Third Republic was aborted in 1993 when the Presidential election was annulled after the June 12, 1993 elections.