Kavita Pandit is a profes-sor of Geography from University of Georgia, Athens, USA. She delivered the convocation lecture at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Otto/Ijanikin last week on The Internalisation of Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges.

Today, the New York Times carried a story based on an Amnesty International Report that alleges that about 600 unarmed, recaptured detainees who had been earlier freed when Boko Haram fighters attacked the Giwa military barracks in Maiduguri, Borno State were re-arrested, and then summarily executed by soldiers in various locations in Maiduguri. “Amongst the testimony gathered by Amnesty International were the voices of witnesses who described what happened when the military found 56 of those who had escaped from the Giwa barracks.

HOWEVER, before the shooting (verbal or guns) starts in earnest, it is necessary for all of us to get familiar with some facts which will not suddenly change and which might guide us when making collective and individual decisions on this matter. These might be called the Iron Laws of our economic (read FOOD) life in Nigeria today. Any rash step and we topple into the abyss – the end of which nobody knows.

TO narrow the communication gap between the community private school pupils and others in the state through increased reading and writing in English Language, a non-governmental organisation, Emo-Eferotu Foundation, organised a programme in Abraka, Delta State, aimed at re-educating English Language teachers on how to improve their teaching abilities of the language as it relates to primary school pupils.

WHEN President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States in May 2013 he rejected the illegal advice of some power mongers to remove the elected governors and dissolve other democratic structures in the affected states.