Former Head of Interim Government, Ernest Shonekan has advocated the allocation of 25 per cent federal and state budgets to education. Shonekan said unless attention is paid to education the vision of becoming one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020 cannot become a reality. He said it can only be realised if conscious steps were taken now to reform and revitalise the educational system. He gave the suggestion at the opening of a two-day summit on education ...

Concerned by the continued decay of the educational sector in the country, the Senate plans to hold a national summit to find the way forward. Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Joy Emordi, who disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, said the two-day summit will hold next month. According to her, “The East Asian tigers that started off at about the same level with Nigeria about 50 years ago have developed not because of natural resources, but through well focused and well ...

Teachers wishing to register with the Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) are now to sit for a professional examination. Dr Steve Nwokocha, National Director, Professional Operations of TRCN, dropped this hint in Lagos when he called on the Lagos Deputy Governor, Mrs Sarah Sosan. Nwokocha also said that the first of such examination would be conducted next month. According to him, those who pass the examination will be awarded licences to practise, while they ...

The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), has infused the Family Life HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) into the nine-year basic education curriculum. Briefing newsmen in Enugu, the Executive Secretary of the council, Professor Godswill Obioma said the measure was to create awareness on HIV/AIDS in school children and to internalise social values. Obioma explained that it would also help to grow the culture of empathy and control on those that were infected as well as promote positive disposition toward infected and ...

Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Professor Olufemi Bamiro, has called for better funding of federal universities. Addressing a news conference in Ibadan on the forthcoming 60th anniversary of the institution, Bamiro said the current situation in the universities called for urgent change of attitude by stakeholders. He said the country's premier university needed more funding for it to continue to play its leading role and facilitate the growth and development of education in the country. "The Federal Government should stop playing politics with the nation's university system.  As long as we continue to ...

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Industries, Solomon Agidani, has called for a review of the curriculum of universities to meet industrial requirement for gainful employment. Speaking at an orientation for Graduate Attachment Programme (GAP), in Makurdi, Agidani noted that most unemployed graduates lacked basic requirements needed in the industries, stressing  that Nigerian graduates would remain largely unemployed until the university curriculum becomes skills-oriented. Pointing out that the global economy was facing a series of crises in which millions of people were likely to lose their jobs, he said that the university curriculum should cover ...

More than 300 civil servants in Bauchi State have volunteered to teach in primary and secondary schools to make up for the dearth of teachers in the state. Governor Isa Yuguda, who disclosed this in Bauchi while declaring open a two-day meeting of officials of the Nigeria National Volunteer Service (NNVS), said the workers had already registered with NNVS, and that the measure was part of the efforts to raise the standard of education in the state. The governor, represented by ...

The Registrar of the National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB), Prof. David Awanbor, has charged the Mathematics Association of Nigeria (MAN) to explore ways of popularizing the teaching and learning of mathematics.  Awanbor made the appeal at the weekend in Benin when he hosted a delegation of the Edo Chapter of MAN.  While emphasising the significance of mathematics in the quest for scientific and technological development and sustainable growth, he pledged the continued support of NABTEB to the people-oriented programmes of the association.  Earlier, the state chairman of MAN, Dr Emmanuel ...

The Federal Government has disbursed N90million to 15 Northern States for the implementation of the Qur’anic Integration Project aimed at giving formal education access to about 7 million children. The Minister of State for Education, Aishat Jubril Dukku  who disclosed this during the presentation of cheques to the benefiting states, said Nigeria cannot in real terms achieve universal basic education if the almajarai (street boys) and other vulnerable groups are not given ample opportunity and encouraged to utilize available basic education opportunities.   According to Dukku, the government had in its efforts to ensure eradication ...

The Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria has called on the Federal Ministry of Education, to review the university curricula, in line with the trend in Science and Technology. The South-South Coordinator of the institute, Mr Friday Udoh, made the call in Uyo during a visit to the Head, Department of Economics, University of Uyo, Dr Godwin Akpan. Udoh said that there was a strong link between the operations of university education, the economy and the industrial demands of any nation....