Lest we forget, one of the main, and dare I say, initial reasons for the Boko Haram insurgency is the fact that the sect wishes to ensure that “western” education is stopped in the country. As was stated by the leader of the sect, girls should not even be seen in schools. They should be at home just to be prepared for marriage!

Recently, a pro-Biafran group, Biafran Zionist Federation, BZF, led by Benjamim Onwuka, who allegedly attacked Government House, Enugu on March 8 struck again in the early hours of June 6 at the Enugu State Broadcasting Service, ESBS, in an attempt to seize the radio and television station for a broadcast. The move was, however, foiled by a team of Policemen.

Many Nigerians live in poverty and for most people, the only hope of getting out of poverty is through quality education. Unfortunately, that opportunity to get a good education is fast slipping through the fingers of the poor,” commented Joshua this Monday morning in the Mile 2-bound commuter bus as a newscaster said something about the crisis in the Lagos State University.

Disaster-prone communities in Ebonyi State now have reason to heave a sigh of relief following the intervention initiative of the Federal Government through the World Bank supported Ebonyi State chapter of Nigeria Erosion and Watershed Management Project, NEWMAP, which was officially launched at the Women Development Centre, Abakaliki, last weekend.

There seems to be no end in sight to the three years crisis rocking the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, since October 2011, when a new fees regime, which saw the overall tuition fees jerked up from N25, 000 to as much as N348, 750 was implemented in the university.