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...

Charting A Path For Nigerians In The Diaspora To Contribute To Educational Reform In Nigeria

Almost a decade into the 21st century, Nigeria has not found a sustainable solution to the myriad problems facing education in spite of the development dollars coming to it from various educational reform interest groups...

Global Economic Crisis: Impact on the Education Sector

Four interrelated global crises are mutually reinforcing each other: climate change, the energy crisis, the food crisis and the financial and economic crisis. But of these, the consequence of the global financial meltdown on the Nigerian educational system at all levels will be more devastating...

90 days in Alcatraz

Mrs. Adeniyi was the reason why at 10 years of age, I entered secondary school wearing a bra...

The Falling Standard

The present status of most public schools across the nation today does not show that these institutions were once well-respected citadels of learning and sources of glory to the nation...

Criticizing for a Purpose – Constructive Criticism

The education sector in most countries, including Nigeria, is typically under-funded or receives less funds and attention than it should, given that it is entrusted with producing those who will serve the nation...

My Four-Year Experience at the University of Ado Ekiti: A Diary

I want to reinstate the fact that there will always be a time to put campus life behind. I have emerged out of critical circumstances. And like Lenrie Peters puts it, i am leaving with boots full of pride...

A Reflection on Nigeria’s Vision 2020: Toward Building a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Nigeria celebrates its 48th birthday this month as a nation in search of an elusive identity in a global community. The nation also continues to struggle with the experimentation with self-governance, self-rule, democracy...

The Death of Human Capital

A candidate during the last presidential elections once campaigned for teachers to be the most highly-paid workers in the country. This might seem like a big joke for any dimwit that is ignorant of the indispensability of teachers...

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Nigeriastan: When Goodluck is not enough

It is becoming increasingly and unbearably painful to read now on a regular basis, the bombings taking place in Nigeria and the attendant wanton and unnecessary loss of life.  It is even more painful when these bombings appear completely unchecked in anyway...

Nadia Buari: “I Think Guys Love Me More”

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Ending Nigeria's Annual Budget Impasse

If a team is hired to turn around a badly managed economy, but after 18 months on the job, rather than turn it around, it has made matters worse, should the team be singing its own songs of praises or should become sober for its failure?

The Nigerian Royals Next Door

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This Craze for Titles: Complex and Syndrome?

There are uncountable royal highnesses, high chiefs, double chiefs, triple chiefs, etcetera, in our localities.  ‘Chieftancy title’ may well be a Nigerian phrase. There may be more Rotarians, Lions, ‘Sirs’ and ‘Dames’ in Nigeria than the world put together going by those with these prefixes against their names...

Saraki and the Hollow Senate

Saraki took to Facebook recently to lament that a...