As part of efforts geared towards making students develop interest in mathematics as a way of enhancing the learning of sciences in our secondary schools as no nation can develop without mathematics, a non governmental organisation MCLILYVILLE , an education consulting firm in collaboration with Lagos State government organised a Mathematics Clinic for SS1 students in Lagos mainland last week. The clinic tagged No Maths No Vision 2020 brought together over 50 teachers and 500 students from different schools in Lagos mainland.

The exposition of school children to sports and other co-curricula activities should be encouraged before a school can claim to have given the children complete and functional education.

On September 28, 2009, the board of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund sent the managing director, Chief Enuora Okoli on compulsory leave. Since then, he has been out of office but the Nigeria police has been busy investigating the allegations against him. Surprisingly, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC) was not brought in.

Ten secondary schools in Borno State are the latest beneficiaries of the MultiChoice Resource Centre which is an audio-visual learning aid designed to facilitate effective teaching and learning. The launch held on Tuesday last week at the Government College, Maiduguri.

A LEADING fruit juice and other consumables, manufacturing company, Chi Limited, is presently at loggerheads with an ex-staff of the company, Mr. Taiwo Oyelami, over the treatment of his left ear that requires surgery as a result of injuries sustained in an industrial accident in the course of his work.

Private school owners under the umbrella of Association for Formidable Educational Development (AFED) have pleaded that the Lagos State Government should revisit the contentious aspect of its policy which does not allow the use of converted structures.

Every child deserves a home and love;he or she must have a sense of belonging in the society or family. When this is absent in a child’s life, there is every tendency for him or her to take to the street.

These are not the best of times for a 62 -year- old woman, Grace Iroro. This is because she has to spend about 365 days of her life inside the confines of prison custody as she was sentenced to a 12- month -jail term with hard labour by an Ikeja High Court, over an attempt to swindle the sum of N17.5 million from a banker.

Nobody saw it coming. Not even seers. For victims and families of the sad incident, last Saturday would forever remain a black day in their lives. Port Harcourt going by its industrial nature is a very busy town. Like the saying goes, “no food for lazy man”. This probably was the driving spirit of most of the victims of the sad incident who defied the heavy downpour that morning to be on the streets to eke out a living

The Anambra State governorship election, together with its outcome, has continued to be the talking point among parliamentarians in Lagos and elsewhere in the country. This was precisely the case at the Cele Bus-stop along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway recently. It began with a parliamentarian, Chuks Morka, expressing happiness at Governor Peter Obi’s victory and re-election at the polls.