In a determined effort to break into the elite top 100 universities in the world, the University of Lagos has recently held a retreat on strategic planning at Eko Tourist Beach Resort.

THERE is no gainsaying the fact that workers have been the worst victims of economic crisis across the globe with countries like Nigeria rather than implement policies to reverse the trend, are dogmatically implementing policies that compound the woes of workers.

THE Military Pension Board, MPB, has dismissed the claims by a cross section of ex-servicemen that it was given N70 billion by the Federal Government to pay their arrears, including 12.5% and 15% salary-increase arrears which they alleged were either partially paid or not paid at all.

Education stakeholders under the auspices of Ikorodu Division Human Resource Development Board brain stormed recently on modality of finding lasting solution to the causes of the abysmal failures of our children and wards in their examinations.

Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu is Chairman Senate Committee on Education. In this interview with Vanguard Education Weekly Bagudu says tertiary institutions should be given freedom to develop at their own pace just as he discloses that President Goodluck Jonathan is setting up a task force among other issues, to return about eight million children out of school to classrooms.