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...

Toward a Teacher Evaluation in an American School District

A performance evaluation does not necessarily guarantee effective evaluation or the competence of a teacher. Other multiple evaluative data sources such as student evaluation, peer evaluation, independent evaluation, are also needed to show competence...

The Parody of Nigerian Education and the Alternative Search for Foreign Certificate

If one is to take the average of those studying abroad, it will tilt towards the side of the least qualified Nigerians...

The Parody of Nigerian Education and the Alternative Search for Foreign Certificate

If one is to take the average of those studying abroad, it will tilt towards the side of the least qualified Nigerians...

Reviving a Reading Culture in Nigeria’s Youth

Perhaps some influential thinking person or people will prevail upon the federal minister of education to begin a process to reclaim the minds of our youth. Mental states such as semi-illiteracy and illiteracy do not become them...

On The State Of Education In Nigeria

Academic Posterity, Academic Prosperity and Serene National Education for all. This is another academic irony. The typifying fact is that we are all completely ignorant of the hidden agenda of these Executive cronies and their series of brouhahas...

Nigerian teachers for South African schools?

It is incomprehensible how Nigerian policy makers contemplate and implement evidently wrong-headed initiatives and decisions that leave not a few of us wondering and stupefied...

How Miami-Dade County Public Schools Deal with Parental Involvement in America

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools district is one of the most progressive in America and the most challenging because of its diversity and proximity to South and Central America, including the Caribbean islands. What is the status of parent involvement in Nigeria?

Toward an Evaluation of the Educational and Sports Sectors in Nigeria

For the past two months, since returning from Nigeria in July after living in America for 30 years, I have been thinking and reflecting on my observations of how the educational and sports sectors work...

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Stop The Showboating: Nigerian Leaders, Do Your Job!

In today’s Nigeria, governance has become a circus of...

How Ndi-Igbo Blew A Very Good Chance Of Producing Nigeria's President (2)

I will suggest that in the interest of equity and justice, the Igbo should be allowed to produce the Senate President. They were not given neither the presidency nor the vice-presidency...

Jungle Justice in the Jungle

I have always been of the opinion that Lagos is the zenith in the comity of anarchic cities and if you can survive in Lagos, you can do so anywhere else. Alas, I was wrong. I am sorry to let Lagosians know they have no credible claim on chaos...

Port Harcourt Bridge Collapse; Emblematic Of Public Infrastructures In Nigeria

As I wrote to complain about the traffic mayhem and gridlocks on Nigerian roads last week, and particularly so, about the traffic standstill in Choba Port Harcourt, a bridge on a major road artery in Port Harcourt actually collapsed soon after!

The Russians Are Already In Nigeria! EFCC, SSS, Nigerian Business Men Be On Alert! (3)

Dangerous. Unpredictable. Strange. Those are the three words that pop up in Western investors' minds when they think of the Russian business world...

Chinua Achebe: A Legend and Master Storyteller

I had the rare honor and luck of being close to the revered Achebe for some thirty years. In that time, he was an inspiration, model, beacon of moral clarity and intellectual integrity as well as my teacher in the best, broadest sense of that word...

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Matters Arising: Of Area Boys, Tinubu And Obasanjo

Apart from the corruption of our political leaders, if there is one of their characteristics that I abhor, it is their hypocrisy...

Fani-Kayode Should Shut Up…!

Let me take the very intelligent and master historian Fani Kayode on a historical journey as well and as much as he has taken everyone. If he remembers his history very well, he would just come to realize that the reason why Adolf Hitler killed more than three million Jews...

Gaddafi has the right to offend me

By now many of those with their ears to the ground will have heard this song: Divide Nigeria in two, according to religious lines. This statement was Mr Gaddafi's recent unsolicited solution to conflicts in Nigeria...