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...

UNESCO: Unfounded figure of Nigerian Children out of School

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO can embarrass a nation it is serving with educational information when it goes out to do or permute funny numbers to...

The Mis-Education of the African People (1)

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.  On the other hand, the Arabs of Africa are excluded from consideration here since they do not suffer identity problems as much as black people...

Nigeria's education sector and UNESCO's report

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, GMR, said that Nigeria has some of the worst education indicators in the world...

Infusing Character Education into Nigeria's school Curriculum

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 school is fast becoming an indispensable character molder of children...

A Little, Humble Tribute to Late Chief Segun Okeowo

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”, as we called the ferocious mobile, anti-riot policemen, not once did they enter the University...

One Thing I could Change to Improve Education in my Country

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...

Are Universities Still Universities?

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 these stories as a periscope of what universities once were, what they are now and what they should be today...

The Federal Government and the ASUU Strike

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 that the law must be obeyed, even if the heavens fall...

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Last Saturday was the day when gladiators of Abuja and Anambra politics outwitted and outsmarted one another in what seemed like a do-or-die affair...