Education

Due to conquest, subjugation and colonialism, black people throughout the world seem to suffer from racial and cultural identity problems emanating from educational systems that belittle their existence and self-worthiness.  …

The Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, in Nigeria, Professor Hassana Alidou, at a recent launch of the Education For All, EFA, Global Monitoring Report, …

Apart from the immediate family setting, the school is the next most important agent of socialisaton. But with eroding family values as a result of ‘errant and absent’ parents, the …

We fought running battles with the Mobile Police stationed outside the gates of the University. Throughout the over a week that we boycotted classes, throwing stones and taunting the “godo-godos”, …

Reading culture is dying in Nigeria. A tiny number out of about 160 million people have healthy reading habits institutionalised. Majority just enlist into various schools…

I am going to tell you three or four stories about our universities. These stories are personal accounts of my experience as a university undergraduate. My plan is to use …

The rule of law and the rule of force seem hard to reconcile. The role of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice is to educate over-zealous politicians in transient power …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has become a perpetual nuisance to the education wellbeing of the Nigerian student. A union otherwise created as a platform to elevate education, has …

A cursory glance at the news media’s account of the management and reporting of the scores of the recent Jamb Exam is very troubling to any beneficiary of Nigeria’s education …

I never believed in the so-called vision 20:2020 for the reason that it wasn’t originally ours; and that was why having Yar’Adua’s seven point agenda anchored on the vision for …

Not a few people doubted the practicability of implementing free education in Imo State when Owelle Rochas Okorocha made it the head stone of his gubernatorial campaign in the historic …

Through the stress-laden labyrinthine process of getting admission into universities, very few Nigerian youths often get what they desired in the first place. The rest are often compensated with something …

On 14th November 2012, as I waited to board the British Airways flight to London, I sighted a turbaned gentleman, a Tuareg from Mali. He said that he was from …

Publicly as a country, we must ask ourselves how the government and we as a people feel about the current state of our education. If you think having schools and …

The issue of examination failure in Nigeria has become a characteristic of great concern to parents, teachers, stakeholders in education supervision, and even to the students…

In order to continue the transformation of public education in Nigeria, it is wise to look elsewhere as we look inward for solution to the problems facing public education in …