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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This Sick Nation Needs Healthy Physicians

For a nation as terribly sick as Nigeria is, when exactly would its healing and reclamation commence? When would men with vision, mission, skill and verve come on board to commence the really arduous of work of reviving this nation?

House of Crooks

Professor Fabian Osuji claims through his lawyer that he did not offer bribe to anybody. In another breath, he admitted “his ministry gave Public Relations Lobby Fund to the National Assembly for budget defense.”

One Term Southern Presidential Candidacy: A Norm?

What baffles me is that Obasanjo did not consider the way and manner he emerged as the Presidential Candidate of the PDP in his first term as unfortunate in view of its implication of generating animosity and rancor...

FAO Messrs Belgore and Kolade

Justice Alfa Belgore's group has the task of dialoguing with organized labour and other stakeholders.  Dr. Christopher Kolade, on the other hand, has been appointed to chair the spending committee, his own group has been charged to oversee and ensure the effective and timely implementation of projects to be funded with savings accruing to the Federal Government from the subsidy removal...

OBJ-Atiku, Government and Compensation for Nigerians from Libya

Bad leadership in the midst of plenty is bane of this nation, and undoing of these Nigerians from Libya. Why did they take the leap of death? You will hear stories of poverty, hunger, impoverishment and all their synonyms. Given what God has graciously and abundantly given to this nation no Nigerian should pass that noxious road...

The Attorney General's Power-Grab Misplaced Priorities

Whose agenda would it be to cripple the EFCC and ICPC? Who would benefit? Why would the first major outing by Nigeria's Minister for Justice have created the impression that he was set to give corrupt public officials some sort of get-out-of-jail-free card?

How To Wake A 60-Year-Old Sleeping Giant

A sleeping giant is a bad sight to behold. Nigeria...

Early Warning Systems: A Strategic Path to Curb Conflict in Benue State

Benue State, a region often defined by the scars...

Shall We Also Impeach The Common Man?

The way it is today, if we impeach a governor because he refuses to dance to the familiar song of a godfather or that he is not our party man, it leaves us the common people in an impeachable position...

Obasanjo, 3rd Term And The Future Of Democracy In Nigeria

Since the Nigerian president and those campaigning for his self-succession plans have so far not made genuine efforts to explore the concerns of the citizens, the survival of Democracy in Nigeria now depends on what citizens of Nigeria and democrats across s the world do now...