Education

Goebbels, Adolf Hitler’s chief of propaganda should know a lot about desperate men. As the Second World war ground to an end, the men who made Warsaw to see war and for war to see […]

The News Agency of Nigeria reported on 16th October that Professor Peter Okebukola, former Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, blames academically weak students for the sex-for-mark extortion rackets currently ravaging Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. I […]

A society that is governed by the reasoning that people ought to be paid for their qualifications rather than the worth of their services is doomed. This is what I mean: qualification is normally the […]

Kwara State Universal Basic Education Board (KWSUBEB) has debunked a publication that applicants for the 1,850 new teaching jobs announced by the government need endorsement of their ward chairmen. The chairman, Alhaji Abdulkareem Lambe, stated […]

The Nigeria Examinations Committee of the West African Examinations Council has recommended that the names of candidates, schools, candidates, invigilators and supervisors caught aiding and abetting examination malpractice should be published to serve as a […]

The Lagos State University (LASU) on Tuesday confirmed the dismissal of three of its academic staff for sexual harassment and misconduct. The university’s spokesman, Ademola Adekoya, said the institution’s Governing Council took the decision at […]

The Zonal Coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ibadan Zone, Dr Ade Adejumo, on Tuesday alleged that the Federal Government was making attempt to make students of federal universities pay a minimum of […]

It is disturbing that despite the immense human and material resources Nigeria is endowed with, the country is still firmly handicapped and unable to wriggle her way out of entrenched developmental quagmire. Aside from the […]

The crisis between the Council of Legal Education (CLE) and National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) over admission into the Nigerian Law School is indeed discreditable albeit resolvable. Taking a realistic and holistic look on […]

Another practical expression of the heightening unemployment crisis in the country manifested the other day when 8000 job applicants sat for “aptitude test” for only 250 available positions in Edo State Traffic Management Agency (EDSTMA). […]

The motivation to write on this matter is informed by the preponderance of telephone calls I receive on a daily basis across the country from candidates, parents and educationists, wanting to know how they can […]

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, (JAMB) has said 24,148 candidates have gained admission into various higher institutions in Nigeria as at August 29. The JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, also dismissed as ‘baseless’ agitations in […]

…our existing educational governmental structures aren’t cutting it in addressing innovation in education. They are too risk averse, and more often than not sideline ideas with incredible potential simply because they do not fit their […]