Recently a group of Nigerian students, currently studying abroad on federal scholarship, found their way to the House of Representatives Committee on the Diaspora to lodge a complaint that the government has refused to remit their allowances, a situation that has reduced them to beggarly conditions and embarrassed the Nigerian nation. AUGUSTINE OKEZIE, in this [...]
The national coordinator of the World Bank Step B project, and professor of chemistry in the Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Professor M.U. Adikwu, bares his mind recently on issues affecting Nigeria’s education and the Step B project, in an exclusive interview with AUGUSTINE OKEZIE Prof. how do you see Nigeria’s education, is [...]
The minister for education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai has urged Universities in the country to encourage entrepreneurship education by exposing their students to the website in order to facilitate virtual networking, and encouraging their membership of local clubs that promotes entrepreneurial learning. The minister gave the charge at Abuja, during the launching of the network [...]
A suspected phone snatcher said to be an undergraduate of the University of Calabar, was killed by a mob for allegedly snatching a phone and a lady’s handbag. The undergraduate said to be operating with someone at large was alleged to have boarded a taxi at Marian Road to Calabar South and when they got [...]
The National Universities Commission has organized a sensitization workshop for its staff, on the mixed learning options of the African Virtual University’s Open Education Resources (OERs), in preparation for an enlarged training anticipated for Distance Learning Centers of Nigerian universities. In her remarks, AVU Teacher Education Officer, Mrs. Elizabeth Moradeyo Balogun, said the Virtual University, [...]
For the past three weeks now the gats of Nigeria’s polytechnics and colleges of education, have remained under lock and key following a strike action embarked upon by the lectures under their association ASUP. AUGUSTINE OKEZIE, in this exercise takes a look at the disturbing silence of the federal government on the teacher’s demands As [...]
The revelation by the USAID top brass that Nigeria has about 10.5 million out of school children i.e. the highest number of street children who are presently out of school in Africa, and indeed the 5th in the whole world calls for concern, especially in the present drive agenda to transform the nation. AUGUSTINE OKEZIE [...]
Recently, the Equatorial Guinea Ambassador to Nigeria, his Excellency, Job Obiang Esono Mbengono, expressed the desire of his country to rather lean on Nigeria’s educational culture and content than bending towards western styled education. AUGUSTINE OKEZIE, in this write up examines the Nigeria- Equatorial bilateral Cooperation on Education In December 12th, 1990 The foundation of [...]
The crisis rocking the federal university of Abuja seems to have defied all logic as all efforts made to restore sanity in the beleaguered institution have failed. The recent inauguration of a new governing council for the university is offering little optimism to a doubting public. AUGUSTINE OKEZIE examines the chances of the present Samuel [...]
Students have been advised to be good advocates of their communities as a critical step towards contributing to nation building. The advice was given by Mrs. Christine Eruokwu during a training workshop organized by Rasoph Education Development Initiative for Africa- REDIFA, at Centagon International School, Maitama Abuja. She further noted that students must be equipped [...]
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