The proposed scrapping of National Examinations Council, NECO, National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, make Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME the only entrance examination into higher institutions had since been generating uproar

The spotlight has again fallen on Nigeria’s educational system. And right now, the nation and its education stake holders are in a state of serious debate as to whether or not to still retain some of the examination bodies already seen as part of the determinants to higher studies.

WEST Africa is known to be one of the world’s major sources of resources such as gold, uranium, diamond, bauxite, coal, oil and gas, cocoa, among others. It is also a volatile region characterised by poor governance, weak state structures, poverty, war, stagnant economy, corruption and disease. For years, it has become a major transit […]

Those in the Monrovia camp believed that you cannot have an African country that will take charge of helping Africa to survive economically. They argued that there is nothing wrong in agreeing to have a more established power, which is the West, to be in charge of security of African countries, while the African countries are allowed to blossom economically.

The putrid stench of decomposition was the ugly reminder of lives that once bubbled.