“Since we were retired, no kobo was paid to me. Every time, we would be called to come to Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, to fill one form after another. Sometimes, we sleep at Awolowo Road on the bare floor, for us to be attended to. In spite of that, nothing has come out of it. It was only in 2010 October that I was paid, since then, no payment. My children are in school, I can’t provide for them. Anytime they come back, we all starve and they will cry all day till they go back. There is nobody to help me except God. My husband died since 2003.”

For more than two decades now, there seem not to be any sector of the Nigerian economy that has generated much ado and giving much cause of worry in a comparably equivalent degree as the Education sector hence, the condition of the sector formed the bone of contention in the 17th Annual Prof. Fafunwa Educational Foundation Lecture held recently at the National Institute of International Affairs(NIIA), Victoria Island.

On Tuesday this week, Nigeria as a country probably had a low key celebration to mark the 53rd anniversary of political independence from our colonial masters. Perhaps, the anniversary was celebrated without fanfare or pomp and pageantry in acknowledgment of the increasing global unrest that is on top of the agenda of most developed, developing and less developed nations occasioned by unexpected security incidents.

Diamond Bank Plc has launched an international multipurpose debit card for students of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, which would enable them carry out financial transactions such as paying for school fees, online payments as well as voting during their students’ Union elections.

The Rivers State Government has flagged-off its 2013 Free Education Project. The flagging-off ceremony took place at the Dr.Christie Toby Model Primary School, Elekahia, Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt.

The sub-heading of this column was announced last week – ‘why religious organisations should do more.’

As the lingering strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU enters its fourth month, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Professor Rahamon Adisa Bello, has stated that the industrial action embarked upon by the union is not against the university system.

Hope of final year students in Nigeria public universities getting call-up letters to participate in the batch ‘C’ National Youth Service Corps will be dashed, due to the ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU.

By GBENGA OLARINOYE, Osogbo REtirees of the Obafemi Awolowo University OAU, Ile Ife Osun state under the Contributory Pension Scheme, CPS, have called on the Federal Government to review the scheme to give succor to those that have served their country faithfully and selflessly. At a briefing in Osogbo on activities lined up to mark […]

The nation’s learning resource company, Learn Africa Plc, has congratulated the National Examinations Council (NECO) and the candidates that sat for the NECO June/July 2013 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE) on the Significant improvement recorded in the performance of students and the reduction in the incidence of examination malpractice.