Education

Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School at 70!  (2)

According to Michael Afolayan, a US-based Professor of Education and Linguistics, what is happening in IJGS “is a systemic problem - the aphorism of...

Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School at 70! (1)

Paying tribute to a respected institution as it marks three scores and ten of sustained success and brand excellence shouldn't feel routine or simply...

School Na Scam?” No—Ignorance Is The Real Fraud!

The boy at the bus stop had a smartphone more expensive than the tuition of an average Nigerian university. He was not on his...

NECO Might Be Failing Our Children

In what is fast becoming an annual incidence, NECO recently announced that 79 per cent of the students who registered for the council’s May/June examinations failed English Language. The news, as usual, was greeted with widespread condemnation...

Saving South-East universities from imminent collapse

What is the sense in attempting to build a model state in an environment of palpable ignorance? Which country or state successfully developed while sidelining qualitative university education...

Is the Nigerian education sector sick?

The stakeholders in the education sector, including the Government at all levels, private individuals, associations and groups, must make increased meaningful investment in the industry...

Exam Failure, Education Minister And Dearth Of Qualified Teachers In Nigeria.

What is responsible for the subsisting dearth of quality teachers in the midst of a surfeit of qualified but unemployed graduates? Or, why are many graduates of those needed subjects not attracted to the teaching profession?

When Giving Back Becomes A Problem

It is a social expectation that graduates of higher institutions come together as alumni to better the lot of their alma mater, manifested in a range of duties such as lending a helping hand to achieve the institution's goals...

Nigerian Schools Are Getting Worse

In the opinion of several eloquent writers, the Nigerian government is to be blamed for the deplorable state of the state schools. We often mention the dilapidated buildings, incessant teacher strikes and several other popular excuses...

LAUTECH Comedy: Let’s Stop This Madness

When IBB categorically stated that Nigerian youths are incapable of leading, many felt that the outspoken retired General spoke out-of-context...

Education in Nigeria: Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai and the “Education Roadmap”

Can Minister Rufai’s four areas of reform be the catalyst to help revamp and redirect education in Nigeria? Can Minister Rufai overcome the problem of policy implementation?

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The Castro to Castro transition in Cuba has surprised only a few given the fact that Raul was an insider in the revolutionary regime of Fidel. As powerful Defense Minister he provided the security network and blanket with which the Castro regime was covered...

Economic revolution: Like Deng, like Jonathan (1)

Had China's economic revolution followed traditional western development route, the usual 'big bang' neoclassical path; had it accepted the usual, ''Don't do as we in the west do, but do as we in the west say you'd do," would China have ever risen to these economic heights today?

Listening to Boko Haram

What do you have against education, after all Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna himself, started Ahmadu Bello University cleverly named after him? He did not miss a beat and responded immediately: “That fellow was misguided..."

Maurice Iwu and the Sale of Nigeria’s Collective Inheritance

Professor Iwu is not alone in this drive towards the sale of Nigeria’s biodiversity to the West for personal gains. Several Nigerian scientists, researchers, students and ordinary citizens, resident and in the Diaspora, have been known to collude with Western interests in selling off the plant resources of the country...

Benedictine Candour, Aggressive Secularism and Atheistic Extremism in the World

The State and pastoral visits of the Pope to various parts of Britain signify an ecumenical restoration of Britain to the path of imminent holy vibrations and critical speed towards an ecumenical cooperation with the Vatican...

Not A Good Time To Be A Silent Nigerian

The man dies in all who keep silent in...

Cow Milk Is ‘Cowing’ Babies

Many women prefer to feed their babies with what they call baby formula derived from cow milk as against the nutritionist and medical practitioners’ highly recommended natural breast milk...

From The Garden of Eden to the Arena of Liberty in Lagos, Nigeria

We who studied in the School of Elihu and...

Yar’Adua’s Health and the Need for Full Disclosure

A president’s declining health or death adversely affects the psyche of the citizenry. This is so because a president is a thread in a nation’s blanket...

Sibling Rivalry

My father is a big man with menacing features. He ruled his household and my home village with an iron hand. No one, no one ever talks back to him, at least not in his presence. My sister was the only person I know who has ever told my father she hated him...