Education

Perhaps some influential thinking person or people will prevail upon the federal minister of education to begin a process to reclaim the minds of our youth. Mental states such as …

Academic Posterity, Academic Prosperity and Serene National Education for all. This is another academic irony. The typifying fact is that we are all completely ignorant of the hidden agenda of …

It is incomprehensible how Nigerian policy makers contemplate and implement evidently wrong-headed initiatives and decisions that leave not a few of us wondering and stupefied…

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools district is one of the most progressive in America and the most challenging because of its diversity and proximity to South and Central America, including …

For the past two months, since returning from Nigeria in July after living in America for 30 years, I have been thinking and reflecting on my observations of how the …

I never knew how similar my experience was to other winners of the Mike Okonkwo Essay Competition for Secondary Schools until I had the opportunity of meeting some past winners …

The collapse of the education system in Nigeria is indicative of the general collapse and retreat of the state. A strong influence of the state’s political and economical affairs!

In the past three decades, Nigerians have witnessed one of the largest mindless orgies of bloodshed, killings, rapes, violent clashes and destruction of lives and properties on Nigerian campuses by …

If Nigerian society is truly egalitarian, university education should be a part of the larger effort for the society to be inclusive…

If Nigerian society is truly egalitarian, university education should be a part of the larger effort for the society to be inclusive…

My domain at CMS Grammar School, the library, was meant to be a place of dead silence, serious study and academic enquiry. But the arrogant, spoilt-brat children of Army Generals, …

I think the Vice Chancellors of some of our universities are doing very well and the students too. I wouldn’t worry too much about Nigerian universities not making the global …

Please just leave me alone this morning; are you just noticing that oga doesn’t respond to greeting from us?

Almost a decade into the 21st century, Nigeria has not found a sustainable solution to the myriad problems facing education in spite of the development dollars coming to it from …

Four interrelated global crises are mutually reinforcing each other: climate change, the energy crisis, the food crisis and the financial and economic crisis. But of these, the consequence of the …

Mrs. Adeniyi was the reason why at 10 years of age, I entered secondary school wearing a bra…