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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A Virulent Form of Absurdity: When Society and Politics go Insane

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The student funding in Nigeria is more of a pie than a puzzle. The schools want a bigger pie and more slices instead of realigning their budget priorities like the rest of the world in our present economic crisis...

Gov. Fayose’s Misplaced Priority and Nothingness 

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Africans and Mental Health (2)

So there I was with several pills and two bottles of wine and a six-pack Heineken in my system when the cops showed up at my door and told me it was either I came willingly or they would drag me off to the hospital...

Reclaiming the Soul of a Nation

For the Church to remain relevant, she must find her voice among the myriad of voices. She must cease to be the echo of postmodern ideologies and stand firm on the sure foundation of the eternal word of God...

President Umaru YarAdua of Nigeria Is Back Home to Presidential Duties?

President Umaru Musa YarAdua's departure from Saudi Arabia and arrival in Nigeria is very dramatic and, quite possibly pregnant and loaded with intrigues and meanings...

It’s Their Country After All…

I really think that success with the United Kingdom immigration appeals process and hopefully in other western countries is based on a simple model, that of reading the grounds for refusal and sufficiently addressing them in your appeal...

The Unwritten Rules of a True Democracy

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On this one Olisa Agbakoba is wrong

If we want Nigerian airlines to expand, be profitable and to employ more people, the efficient way forward is to make them competitive and attractive to not only Nigerians but also to the rest of the world...

So, Nigerians Are Deeply Uninformed?

What has so far surprised me is not that Nigerians did not know most of what has happened and is happening as released by Wikkileaks. Shocking is the level of shock being expressed in newspapers across the country...