“Education doesn’t sell” is a statement that I have been confronted with repeatedly over the past six years or so. To put things straight, it has been many students’ strongest point against hard work in the university, and if I add the time spent refuting this together now, it would probably run into years of…

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has approved the release of admission into Junior Secondary School (JSS) 1 of the 104 Federal Government colleges in the country. The approval followed the 2018 selection exercise for placement of qualified candidates into JSS1 held across the country. In a statement yesterday in Abuja, “The selection exercise employed the…

There was no fanfare when the announcement was made during the Federal Executive Council meeting held recently concerning the decision to scrap the award of HND by polytechnics. It was a subtle decision that drew no rancour or debates among the ministers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.

It is, indeed, very disturbing that against the background of the recent verdict of a Federal High Court in Abuja outlawing the conduct of post-University Tertiary...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, to immediately lead a Federal Government delegation to Bauchi in the aftermath of the rainstorm, which destroyed about 1,505 houses.

A non-governmental organisation, Legal Defence Assistance Project (LEDAP) has warned managers of the nation’s tertiary institutions against conducting the post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinaion (UTME), warning that there’s a subsisting order of the court against the exercise.

It is no longer news that the Nigerian educational system, due to an unwholesome combination of neglect and mismanagement, has fallen over the years into a squalid state of disrepair. It is no longer news that while in saner societies throughout the world, the teaching profession is considered one of the most important jobs there could be, in Nigeria...

The crisis in the sector was further described by Senator Biodun Olujimi as worrisome.She said, “There is need for revaluation to understand where the missing link is. There is also the need to look at teacher education because we have some teachers who are not properly trained, who don’t do research and cannot read or write. So, how can they teach our children well?”

That devastating enemy called procrastination appears to have taken permanent residence in Abuja where the dreams of the most important black nation on earth face threat of abortion every day.

The Federal Government has released over N138b billion to the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) in the last three years as matching grant to strengthen basic education system in the country.

Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of ASUU, Dr. Deji Omole, who stated this in Ibadan at the weekend, added that it has become imperative to remind the minister that the future of the children of the masses must not be used to play politics.

The Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education has developed the operational plan for national mass literacy programmes in the country.