When one of the fastest-growing universities in Nigeria, Thomas Adewumi University, contacted me through its phenomenal Vice Chancellor, Prof. Francisca Oladipo, to deliver its third anniversary lecture last Thursday (May 16, 2024), the relevant theme that came to my mind ...
In a press release by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, on April 18, 2024, the aide provided what can be considered as the agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government on Education. This ...
As the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) continues its ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) that started last Friday (April 19, 2024), and for which some 1,985,642 candidates had registered, it is auspicious to underscore the significance of eschewing ...
Learning is simply what we do through life. As Jeff Cobb once defined it, it is the lifelong process, both conscious and unconscious, of transforming information and experience into knowledge, skills, behaviours and attitudes. It is different from education because ...
Like a school where students are enrolled to form a community and learn, based on a given curriculum for a period of time, the month of Ramadan, which started last Monday, has important lessons for individuals and the society at ...
On the 1st day of March 2024, the first female and fourth substantive Vice-Chancellor of Fountain University, Osogbo, the highly cerebral and prolific Prof. Olayinka Ramota Karim, marked her first year in office. To commemorate the event, apart from a ...
Two incidents happened this year that emblematise the precarious state of educators in Nigeria. They both should serve as a wake-up call to the government and the society at large on the looming danger if care is not taken. This ...
In a World Bank report of 2018, a “learning crisis” in global education was reported when it was found that 60 per cent of primary school children in developing countries were failing to achieve basic proficiency in reading, writing and ...
The recent acquisition of a degree by a Nigerian investigative journalist, Umar Audu, from a Beninoise university, Ecole Superieure de Gestetion et de Technologies (ESGT), Cotonou, has further signposted part of the crisis with our education. Though education is meant ...
When I received the invitation of the Old Students Association of Ansarul Islam Model College (formerly Ahmadiya College, Agege) to speak at its Inaugural Legacy Seminar in honour of a great old student of the school, Alhaji Adilu Bello, I ...
The Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) is an exchange programme of the United States established in 2010 to expand the reach of the US international programmes and invest in the next generation of leaders. The seed planted by President Barack ...
One of the most compelling writings on the roles of the university in the society is that of “The idea of a University” (1852) by John Henry Newman, the influential clergyman and scholar of the 19th century. In the lectures, ...