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...

Resolving the ASUU Debacle – Once, and for all

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 since the dark days of the military era transformed itself into a powerful lobby dedicated to undermining the wellbeing of Nigeria’s future...

JAMB and the Integrity Question

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 system...

Why I never believed in Vision 20:2020

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 me was simply mere political rhetoric...

Reviewing Rochas Okorocha’s Free Education Policy in Imo

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 quest for Imo governorship in 2011. Quite a number of well grounded reasons informed this skepticism...

BSc Marketing

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 entirely different...

Encounter with a Tuareg Revolutionary and the Afemai University story

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 the newly proclaimed Republic of…

Time for state of emergency in education

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 qualifications that cannot compete with those of the rest of the world is bad, you are wrong. It is a disaster...

The Surge Of Colossal Examination Collapse in Nigeria

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...

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That we may not die in hospitals abroad

Last year 2023, the tragic news of the death...

What Common Sense Requires

If you sample the opinions of the so-called “most enlightened” segment of the populace as to what constitutes the most formidable challenge – out of a multitude - militating against Nigeria’s development and growth, the major answer that is likely to emanate from such an enquiry is “bad leadership”...

Prof Jega and 2011 Elections Budget: Money-Pocketing Or Vote-Count Opportunity?

Jega is manifesting incompetence. He collected about N90b for the conduct of the 2011 elections. Next he asked for N6b for a one-week extension of the voter’s registration...

When Will Nigeria Reform its Health Care?

One cannot help but wonder when the Nigerian government will begin to reform its healthcare. This is against the backdrop that Nigeria does not seem to have a clear, concrete and comprehensive health policy...

How old is Peter Esele?

There is a new generation of Nigerians rearing their dynamic heads and determined to put their mark on their country. Age is an important element that unites them, for they are young and indeed they define themselves as young...

Igbos In Lagos State: My Experience

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation...

America Votes: Any Lessons For Nigeria?

In my opinion, a good number of American voters are not well-informed. And they are gullible. Most American voters are traditionalists. They stick to their ancestral family party line and pattern of voting...

We Need To Re-Strategize

Image matters in everything, our appearance matters. Foreigners will make up their mind on Nigeria through those representing us outside our shore. We must make do with our first eleven...

After Life's Fitful Fever, Gani Sleeps Well

I had almost come to believe that men like Gani will never die. How wrong was I proved on that rainy Saturday morning when the falcon flew away?