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...

Examination Malpractice: Our Today Tomorrow

Our certificates are already being rejected abroad due to its loss of credibility. How shameful for us as the giant of Africa. We must all join hands to expunge examination fraud from our nation. Enough is enough!

Education in America: The Role of the Educational Excellence School Advisory Council in the School Improvement Process

On May 20, 2008, the Educational Excellence School Advisory Council, EESAC, had its end-of-year meeting at the City of Homestead Chambers...

Campus Politics and Leadership Matter

What students perceive of leadership is indeed wrong. Leadership to them is an opportunity to siphon money from union account for personal aggrandizement, a means of enriching oneself to the detriment of others...

Nigerian Youths and National Development

I was at my alma mater – Federal Government College, Idoani, Ondo State - to grace the 30th anniversary of the institution. Haunted by the memories of the hey days of traumatic boarding school experience, I set on to idoani...

Effectiveness Of The Nigerian Educational System

There can be no meaningful development if we have half baked schools in our country. Every Nigerian should be given access to qualitative education whether rich or poor...

Illiteracy: A Great Evil

Anyone reading this piece should consider himself privileged. Why? This is because it means that you can not only read but can also afford to buy a newspaper or browse the Internet...

Education In Africa; Whose Education, Anyway

Education ought to empower an individual to master the peculiarities of his surroundings and afford him the tools to improve on it qualitatively. In essence, what might be considered knowledge in a certain part of the world could amount to useless information in another...

A Reward For Teachers, Not Sent From Heaven

Teachers all over the world apart from, perhaps, Japan and China, are poorly remunerated and that is why Nigerian teachers should not in any way be seen as an endangered species from the remunerative point of view...

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Generational Walkers with God

Christianity is a walk with God. We are temporarily here. We have no certain abode on this side of eternity. We are strangers or pilgrims walking from here to yonder land that is fair beyond description. There are rules in this walk. Yes, how do we walk with God from our temporary abode here to His eternal abode there to be thereafter with Him eternally?

Banks And Their Corporate Prostitutes

Today, most people are wont to draw parallels between female bankers and the nation’s swarm of unprincipled actresses, and between the banking industry and the scummy pond we call our home video industry...

If The Niger Bridge Collapses…

From what we are seeing, the Federal Government is not behaving as if it is aware that a devastating tragedy is lurking at the corner, waiting to strike...

Gen Z, Religion, and the Morality Question

There is a widening revolution in our world spearheaded...

Jonathan’s Two Quiet Months

It’s one of the amazements of Nigerian life that the tumultuous events of last January seem now so terribly dim and faraway. But it was in January, two short months ago, that President Goodluck Jonathan incautiously increased the price of fuel...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! Part 8

The Niger Deltans should not be naive nor have any illusion as regards to a new ministry set up by Yar'Adua and the criminals surrounding him. Suffice to say that the ministry is as good as the official paper that was used to type its creation...

Understanding The End-Time Turbulence: The Era of the Gentiles

In Nigeria, there is too much pomp and pageantry, gaiety and social festivities. When do our leaders sit done like Chief Obafemi Awolowo used to do and ponder over the myriad of problems that baffle the nation?

Efcc Icpc: A Tool For Witch Hunt

There is no doubt that Ribadu acted on the directives of his boss, Obasanjo who dictated what happened at any given time. Ribadu nevertheless got the nod from the international community for his giant stride in the fight against corruption...

There Could Be Some Method To Obasanjo's Ways Of Doing Things

Obasanjo's Wars against Corruption as derelict and one-sided as it may appear to many, is definitely doing some good. Today when you see a one time Inspector General, past and present Governors and intimate buddies of Mr. President in handcuffs to answer for their past misdeeds, it sends a powerful message to all Nigerians...

Spying, Geo-Politics And The Satanic Order

Next time you are requested to vote for a political leader, check him out accordingly. Otherwise, our misery will continue to result from governance by guess-work and misadvise...