The importance of functional education to national life cannot be over stated, education makes us think rationally amongst several other benefits. According to reports, LAUTECH, an institution of higher learning…
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Fulbright is many, many things wrapped up in one. Like a Christmas hamper. But unlike a Christmas hamper, the package of Fulbright is not a mix of edibles and perishables.…
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Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist whose singular action in a commercial bus became a very important symbol of the civil rights movement. Education helped Rosa Parks to…
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It is no longer news that Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria is in crisis, as reported by various platforms. Wumi Raji, an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts…
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Our Universities in Nigeria do not seem to have the relationship with Students that they could fall back on in future. I mean in terms of translating good times the…
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I have read several write ups about Free Schools meals in Osun State and a similar scheme being proposed by The Federal Government of Nigeria and I would therefore like…
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The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the different services and products that universities…
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The current fuel crisis may be causing Muhammadu Buhari to rue his fourth and successful quest for the presidency of Nigeria and revisit the old maxim: be careful what you…
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I used to teach the SATs. And one of the modules that gave my students the greatest problem is the one known as ‘critical reading’. The students were getting those…
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I have just read of a call by a very important politician in Southwestern Nigeria, asking the Federal government to declare a state of emergency in the education sector. He…
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The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO can embarrass a nation it is serving with educational information when it goes out to do or permute funny numbers to…
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Due to conquest, subjugation and colonialism, black people throughout the world seem to suffer from racial and cultural identity problems emanating from educational systems that belittle their existence and self-worthiness. …
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The Director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, in Nigeria, Professor Hassana Alidou, at a recent launch of the Education For All, EFA, Global Monitoring Report, …
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Apart from the immediate family setting, the school is the next most important agent of socialisaton. But with eroding family values as a result of ‘errant and absent’ parents, the …
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We fought running battles with the Mobile Police stationed outside the gates of the University. Throughout the over a week that we boycotted classes, throwing stones and taunting the “godo-godos”, …
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Reading culture is dying in Nigeria. A tiny number out of about 160 million people have healthy reading habits institutionalised. Majority just enlist into various schools…