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...

Reclaiming Public Education in Nigeria: A Lesson from a School District in America

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 Nigeria...

Is the MBA Still Worth the Cost?

Once it was philosophy that reigned. Architecture, science, law, and medicine at some time also each had their own glorious time. Business education did not make its way into the professional dictionary until several decades after the industrial revolution. Before then, business skills were learned through master-apprentice relationships...

Reading culture and mass exam failures

In connection with a deliberate, orchestrated attempt at discouraging countless students from engaging in any thorough academic studies and excel academically any longer, careful checks have revealed that most private school proprietors/proprietresses, owners of registered/unregistered tutorial centres scattered all over the country are culpable and neck-deep in perpetrating exam malpractices...

Student Loan : Is It Necessary Among Nigerians?

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...

The Rivers International Education Consultants

To some people, it is a wonderful idea that Governor Amaechi has contracted Educomp Solutions, an Indian conglomerate, to manage the 24 model secondary schools that he is building in Rivers State. According to media reports credited to Amaechi, each of the schools that would accommodate about 1,000 students, cost the state government about N4.5bn...

Sexually Transmitted Degrees

There are, one conjectures, multitudes of Nigerian bankers, engineers, lawyers, accountants, physicians, mass communicators, economists – to name a few – who flaunt sexually transmitted degrees, diplomas or certificates. Or degrees that were priced and bought, not earned through diligent study...

Amaechi’s Everyday Project Of Training Rivers Teachers

Rivers State implementation of the education strategic sector plan will not take a decade to be accomplished. The effort by Amaechi to give our children qualitative education should be followed with successes...

Education in Nigeria: The Return of Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai as Minister

The return of Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai as minister of education will signal a shift and a renewed commitment to education as President Goodluck Jonathan continues to demonstrate transformational leadership and his vision for education...

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Atiku Abubakar May Well Be Our Best Choice In 2007

Why must Nigeria continue to go along with ex-military leaders to guide our ship of State? More than 30 years of pure Military rule and 8 years of transitional para military Government represented by Obasanjo's first and second terms should be enough...

Desperation politics and implications for investment

Nigerians have in the past one month witnessed with steadily growing alarm a heightening desperation exhibited by politicians in their bid to control the country’s federal government in the next political dispensation...

Still Bearing Daddy’s Surname Even After Marriage?

My colleague says no matter the political and historical and economic value that his sweetheart's name may bring to his life, he would not allow his wife to keep her daddy's name...

Buhari is not a Nigerian!

President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria is not a "Nigerian."...

Some Reflections on the State of World Affairs

As the US President, Barack Obama undertakes diplomatic visits to Ireland, Britain, France and Poland, the nagging question that demands an answer is whether European states are losing their sovereignty?

Legislating With A Sense Of Mission: Chukwumerije And Obiorah

Looking at the situation from a remedial perspective, responsibility may have been the bane for the post war Igbo leadership failures...

Mandela and Nigeria

Not a whole lot of positive news rushes out of Nigeria – especially lately, but one of the things we got absolutely right was our determined leadership and our drive in the pursuit of the emancipation of the Black man.  Nigeria was right on point in its dogged fight for the liberation of all Africans, particularly in places like Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), and South Africa...

Aruma Oteh's Love For Shame

It is a known fact that Oteh was covering up her low understanding of the capital market which collapsed due to her inefficiency, combined with her financial recklessness. She shamelessly agreed to come back after the Reps had accused her of wasting public funds…spent N30m on hotel bills in 8 months…N85, 000 on meals per day...

The Nigerian Policeman Is Your Friend

“First you say you are doctor, now you say you are writer, my friend, which one are you? This is very suspicious o. In fact you have to come and see our Oga...”

The Ruler-for-Life Syndrome in the Third World and the Danger of a Protracted Conflict in Libya

The purpose of this write up is to briefly explore the ruler-for-life syndrome among leaders of Third World countries and the issue of whether NATO’s military intervention in the Libyan civil war is contributing to the elongation of the conflict rather than shortening it...