What free higher education really means (and doesn’t mean)

By Ariane de Gayardon Whether or not higher education should be free is a recurring debate the world over, but recently it has intensified and...

Ajimobi appoints principal officers for Ibadan Poly

The Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi has approved the appointment of new principal officers for The Polytechnic Ibadan. He appointed Professor Kazeem Adekunle Adebiyi as...

Renowned Nigerian poet, Gabriel Okara dies at 97

Renowned Nigerian poet and novelist, Gabriel Okara, has died. He was aged 97. The literary icon passed on on Sunday at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC)...

45 year old Bala Magaji is NOUN’s best graduating student

A 45 year old man, Bala Magaji has emerged the best graduating student of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) for the 2018/2019...

Kenya’s Peter Tabichi wins 2019 Global Teacher Prize

A Kenyan teacher named Peter Tabichi has won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize. With this, he is going home with the US $1 million...

We’d use mass education to fight insecurity, violence – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to make affordable mass education a tool to combat incidents of insecurity and violence in Nigeria. He attributed crises in...

Water: The fuel of success

Life is a race; you become stranded when you refuse to run. The feasibility of every step towards success requires a fuel that releases the...

Buhari signs bill stopping NYSC from posting engineering graduates to schools

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)...

TRIBUTE: Femi Ojo-Ade (1941-2019)

By Niyi Afolabi “You will always be my son, any day, no matter what!” Such were the re-assuring words of Professor Femi Ojo-Ade to me...

WAEC to review workers’ salaries

The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC), has disclosed that the examination body would be reviewing its staff salary. The...