Education

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…

The present status of most public schools across the nation today does not show that these institutions were once well-respected citadels of learning and sources of glory to the nation…

The education sector in most countries, including Nigeria, is typically under-funded or receives less funds and attention than it should, given that it is entrusted with producing those who will …

I want to reinstate the fact that there will always be a time to put campus life behind. I have emerged out of critical circumstances. And like Lenrie Peters puts …

Nigeria celebrates its 48th birthday this month as a nation in search of an elusive identity in a global community. The nation also continues to struggle with the experimentation with …