The adopt-a-school programme initiated by the Ministry of Education appears to be receiving overwhelming support of not only the corporate world but also international agencies. Among the latest agencies to identify with the initiative is the government of Venezuela, which has promised to adopt two primary schools in Nigeria. The country’s ambassador, Boris Henriquez stated this when he visited the Minister of State for Education, Adewunmi Abitoye in Abuja recently. Henriquez said embassy has seen one primary school in Kubwa in the Federal Capital territory and requested the ministry to select the second primary. “If the government approves the request, these two schools ...

As the deadline issued by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the Federal Government expires today, there are indications that the universities may be closed for a long time. The National Executive Council of ASUU had at its meeting of March 24 – 25 demanded a written assurance from the government by March 29 for its negotiating team to renegotiate the 2001 FGN/ASUU agreement and its components, before its members will attend the government’s team proposed meeting of April 2 – 4. In its communiqué on the resumption of the suspended strike, ASUU demands include: negotiation on basic salary and ...

The fight against examination malpractice took a new dimension with the presentation of a manual for mandatory integrity training to examiners, supervisors and invigilators by the Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili at a stakeholders’ forum in Abuja. This is coming on the heels of the publication of a booklet by the Federal Ministry of Education titled Examination Malpractice Blacklist 2 which displayed individuals removed as examiners, supervisors and invigilators of public examinations. Speaking at the gathering that drew together examiners from the 36 states of the federation and Abuja, as well as National Association of Parents Teachers (NAPTAP), Ezekwesili stated that ...