Guardian (Nigeria)

The 2007 UNICEF annual review report on basic education has revealed that there was a 30 per cent improvement in enrolment, completion and enhanced learning outcomes in pre-primary education, at Early Child Development (ECD) centres in local government areas across the country.

By Mary Akparanta
THE Head of Chemistry Department, Olabisi Onabanjo University , OOU, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Prof. Kayode Adesogan, has said the nose-diving reading culture among Nigerians was impacting negatively on the nation's development.

LACK of well furnished libraries and poor reading habit among secondary schools students in the country have been identified as some of the factors that are responsible for poor examination result in the country.

NOT fewer than 32 federal, state and privately owned polytechnics have been barred by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) for admitting students for Arts and Business-related programmes beginning from the 2007/2008 academic session.

TO strengthen series of awareness campaigns going on about the Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) /AIDS virus, Coca-Cola Bottling Company Plc has taken up the challenge

THE Principal Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Mr.Yusufu Ari has attributed the mass failure of students in English Language at the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE)

AN ambitious and comprehensive national policy designed to regulate the activities of early childhood development providers has been launched. Jointly developed by the Federal Ministry of Education, UNICEF, ministries of Health, Women Affairs, Information, and Communication,

THE rate of examination malpractice across the country increased by 4.3 per cent in 2006, the 2007 Exam Ethics Project (EEP) yearly report has revealed.

DISTURBING signals are beginning to emerge from the Federal Ministry of Education. Since the appointment of the trio of Dr.

To keen watchers in the education sector, some changes had been anticipated in the Federal Ministry of Education.

A UNIVERSITY teacher at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, Professor Olawoye Adegboye, has decried the dearth of quality teachers in some of the nation's public schools.

THE Kwara State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr. Bolaji Abdullahi has deplored the alleged dichotomy in the trend of formal education between the children and of the privileged Kwarans and those of the underprivileged.

A VARSITY don, Prof. Banji Oyelere has alerted on the imminent danger of an alleged drastic reduction in the number of Nigerians applying for formal education, to the nation's technological breakthrough.

What was meant to be an interventionist action in the education sector by the immediate past administration went awry when wild allegations began to make the rounds that the Unity schools were being put up for sale.

LITERACY projects in Nigeria, China, the United States, Senegal and the United Republic of Tanzania were the winners of the five UNESCO Literacy Prizes this year.