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...

Exam irregularities in Nigerian schools

Examination malpractices are generally described as wrongdoings before, during or after examinations. And, without mincing words, these are having telling, negative effects on the nation’s quality of education, just as many school leavers and graduates can no longer defend their certificates...

Zero Goal for Education in Nigeria

By now, all those who have over the years conspired to make sure education is dealt a death blow in this country must be celebrating as their well laid out plan is yielding fruit...

Education in America: Dealing with High Stake Testing

Nobody really knows where America stands as a nation. The educational system is going through a “car wash” and anything can happen in the next couple of years. One thing that is clear to me is that the Obama administration seems committed to improving the quality of public education...

The University of Abuja Disgrace

The images that rushed at me when I heard the name, University of Abuja, were images redolent with the Abuja razzmatazz. I had reckoned that as the nation’s capital and centre of unity, its university should be a reasonable representative of the city’s ambience...

Obama and American Public Education

President Obama and his education team under the leadership of the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, are taking appropriate steps to support the teaching profession. The aim is to improve the profession in order to improve the quality of instruction and improve student achievement...

Global Education: The Nigerian School Project

Nigeria is a challenging place to live, work, or travel. Oil rich, the country still falls desperately short of meeting the educational needs of its children. But the kids are so fantastic, so engaged, so curious about the world...

Obama: Redefining the Role of Federal Government in Education in America

Since President Obama became president of the United States in 2009, the federal government has increased its influence and involvement in public education particularly in elementary and secondary education...

The Day Fugar Stood Still for Prof. Eshiemokhai

Recently, Fugar Community stood still for Professor Emmanuel Omoh Eshiemokhai to hear the news he had to break. Prior to this, there was ongoing information that a University was proposed for Fugar...

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If You Must, Do It The Right Way

It is a universal fact that when it comes to cheating and being devious, women do a better job.You know why?Because we are just plain smarter; we think ten steps ahead of our men...

Nigerian Big-Shots, Big Egos and Sugar-Daddies

There is something about small and narrow-minded people that vexes me. East or West, North or South, they all have three things in common: haughtiness, roguery, and the propensity to subjugate the common man...

Nigeria’s democracy, Boko Haram and public orderliness!

Nigeria's well-being depends on a lot of things, among which economy and security play a prominent role. If these things are not taken care of, government's claims of a pro-people regime are inconsequential...

The Vulnerability Of Nigerian Youths During Election

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Caught in a Web of Circumstance

There are no people I disrespect like people, who, as a result of greed, whitemail or consent, allow other people or institutions in the service of the Luciferian hierarchy to desecrate their divinity...

Sexual Violence and Nigerian Women: Breaking the Silence

Even though we are not in a state of war, Nigerian women, girls and babies are daily subjected to one form of bestiality or the other by deranged and psychopathic men who do not have a place in a civilized world...

The Tempest: Colonial Encounters and Gendered Readings (2)

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.