The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, has tasked members of the National Project Performance and Review Committee (NPPRC) of the African Centres of Excellence (ACE) project, to be objective and thorough in the discharge of their assignment.

ANY foreign national who possesses specialised and relevant skills, abilities and technical know-how required in Nigeria for the development of its economy may be employed to work in Nigeria for a period of time in order to transfer such skills, abilities and knowledge. Before such skilled foreign national can be employed in Nigeria, the employer must prove that no Nigerian citizen possesses the same skills, abilities and technical know-how; it must also have obtained a work permit for the prospective employee to the skilled migrant to work legally in Nigeria.

Determined to attain 91 per cent literacy rate before the 2015 Education for All deadline, the Lagos State Agency for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, LSAME, in conjunction with the National Mass Education Commission (NMEC), UNESCO and the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Office, has concluded a six-day training workshop organised for the 111 facilitators of the adult literacy scheme in some of the local government council areas of the state.

It is amazing that the Federal Government has allowed the ASUU strike to continue without any serious attempt to resolve the impasse. In the first place, it needs to be stressed that once an agreement has been reached by parties, it ought to be respected and implemented.

TALES of woe from Federal Government retirees in Lagos, have continued to elicit emotional reactions as the retired civil servants battle to draw attention of government to their plight.

The Commission submits that the National Assembly should de-emphasis the issue of qualifying years of experience and adopt the model of the CBN Act where no requirement of specific years of post-qualification experience is stipulated by the CBN Act. This is the position that is consistent with global best practice which emphasizes competency rather than years of post-qualification experience, which does not necessarily translate into capacity and capability.

The Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN) has commended the decision of the National Executive Council of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to mediate in the current face-off between the Federal Government and striking lecturers under ASUU.

Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Kogi State University Chapter, Sylvester Osakwe Ukwuteno, has said that the ongoing strike by the union will continue because the Federal Government has not strengthened its vision for the sector.

IF those that wanted to snuff life out of the philanthropic and amiable popular transporter and Chairman of Young Shall Grow Motors, Chief Vincent Obianodo, had succeeded, his last words on earth could have been the wild exclamation which he uttered as soon as the hoodlums started firing volleys of bullets into his car, penultimate Tuesday.

A Kaduna-based environmental legal consultant, Mr Caleb Mutfwang, has ranked Nigeria high in the implementation of environmental multilateral agreements signed by the country.