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...

Ngozi the Commissioner Spells Education

The student was different. She exuded confidence that seized the atmosphere like a charge of electricity. It was the morning assembly of the all-female Mater Amabilis...

CKC, Onitsha: An Incubator of National Prosperity

By Dr Ray Emeka Onwuelo Christ the King College (CKC), Onitsha was born on a warm sunny afternoon on Thursday, February 2, 1933. It was...

Abandoned National Library Building Abuja May Soon Collapse

Seventeen years ago, Nigeria embarked on a very ambitious project, to build the largest library in Africa. Located between the National Mosque and the...

Sex for Grades – a Hidden Pandemic On Our Campuses

By Glorious Amalu-Jack The fact that Sexual Gender Base Violence SGBV exists in our tertiary institutions cannot be overemphasized. It is a Hidden Pandemic that...

Open Letter to Dr Onyishi of Maduka University

In Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christopher Okigbo, edited by Chinua Achebe and Dubem Okafor, the piece Death of...

High-Octane Inaugural Lecture of Prof Ernest Igwe at UNIZIK

It was an Inaugural Lecture with a difference. The 80th Inaugural Lecture of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, delivered by Prof Ernest Chukwusoro Igwe on...

UNIBEN Flags Off Student Work Study Programme, SWSP

Benin City Nigeria…Professor Lilian Imuetinyan Salami, Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Edo State, on Friday 3rd February 2023 at the Banquet Hall...

Is Sex Education Not Child Abuse?

It is not surprising that the recent directive by the Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu, to the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to expunge...

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Those handling Goodluck Jonathan better tell him that this week marks the end of the honeymoon phase of his “acting presidency.”

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His Head Held High…

Chris Ngige came into power through a skewed electoral process, shook off the stigma of stained personalities and worked for the good of his people. This is not to sanction the possible perfidy that brought him in power, but it is noteworthy that he fought in a honorable way to retain what he thought was his...

Is the Nigerian Police a friend or an enemy?

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Africa and the Pestilence of Imported Gods (2)

How can a society hand over its head on a platter to a conqueror because he asked for it? How can a people yield their gods to be decapitated or burnt at the conqueror’s fires simply because the conqueror just showed up, knocked on the door and politely asked for that?

Global Malaria Control: It’s Time To Cast Down The Net

Maybe as her own demonstration of love during the Valentine season, the First Lady of Nigeria – Dame Patience Jonathan on Sunday 13th day of February 2011 turned a portion of Aso Rock into a repository for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) that were subsequently distributed to some categories of Nigerian women...