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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Stuck With You

My journal entries are more like prayers that I try to write as sincerely and openly from my heart, especially when I find it hard to articulate them vocally or when am too lazy to kneel down to pray...

Shinzo Abe Re-kindles Bitter Memories of Japanese Militarism

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How Dangote Is Double-crossing Nigeria!

There is no doubt in my mind that Alhaji Dangote is a smart businessman but it is the responsibility of the government to regulate business not to be in their pocket...

Agagu's Victim Today…

What kind of Government is Agagu running in Ondo State, if he is allowed to brazenly circumvent the Law? A Governor who will sanction this kind of coup, would have no problems rigging an election just to cling to office by all means. This move by Agagu does not sound right to me, regardless of how you slice it…

Nigeria: When Chaos Becomes the Springboard for the Change We Need

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Karma of Justice on Crass Impunity

The Karma of justice has taken up permanent residence...

Mr. President’s Profound Ineptitude

Needless to say that we’ve had enough of this political naivety emanating from Aso Rock mixed with gargantua sized ineptitude masquerading as leadership. It seems that President Jonathan’s problem is not particularly terrorism but lack of courage...

Local, State And Ethnic Sovereign Conferences

The present Federal Government of Nigeria is an inherited political force of occupation. That unitary system of administration favoured by the military and the feudal lords was a cruel imposition that came first from the British Colonial Office and lately from the military prodigal sons of Nigeria...

Mr. Jonathan Feels Our Pain

President Goodluck Jonathan, who is leading the charge to deepen Nigeria’s poverty index by removing the so-called fuel subsidy, appears bent on playing a Clinton. He is anxious to sell Nigerians on the idea that he feels their pain...

Open Letter to Governor Amaechi

The essentiality of this letter to you is on the arrest of the members of Sekibo’s faction of the PDP in our state who were labelled "thugs" by the Secretary to the State Government...