Last Saturday December 19, 2009 marked another milestone in the eventful life of former PDP National Chairman and first civilian governor of Plateau State Chief Solomon Daushep Lar as he was conferred with a honourary doctorate degree – Doctor of Laws (LL.D) by the Nasarawa State University, Keffi.

The positive impact which the Roadmap for Nigerian education is expected to have on the sector will soon start manifesting as the National Roadmap Implementation Task Team (NRITT) has swung into action in line with the systematic implementation strategy encapsulated in the Roadmap.

WITH just a day to Christmas, unarguably, the most popular and widely celebrated Christian feast, the various bus terminals and markets in the city are now a beehive of activities as those intending to travel besiege the terminals to board vehicles to the hinterlands while those who intend to stay back, engage in last minute shopping to purchase what they need for the yuletide.

The Commandant, Command Day Secondary School, Ojo, Lagos, Lt Col U.N. Babangida has called on teachers and parents to catch their children young by molding them into great minds before they pass out of secondary school. Babangida made this known recently at the school’s 19th annual inter house sports competition.

At the recent National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), held at Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, it was dismayed by the report of mass sack and intimidation at Olabisi Onabanjo University, (OOU) Ago-Iwoye.