EDITORIAL: BUHARI’GOVERNMENT: Patience and caution: Our advocacy. Sober reflections of the last session as 2015/2016 begins

This time last year was remarkably a period every stakeholder, especially private school operators will not forget in a hurry. The shock and associated troubles that came with the Ebola saga left a distortion in the academic calendar.  

“The session started with some of us recovering from the shock of Ebola Virus. We had to buy the ebola detector because of the fear of Ebola.” A school owner told us recounting his experience.

UBEC blames states for failure in basic education, States get N37b grant yearly to boost learning says Dikko

By Kanayo Umeh, Abuja on September 10, 2015 3:32 am

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The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Suleiman Dikko, says the Federal Government allocates the sum of N1 billion as matching grant to the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory to boost the development of basic education in Nigeria.

To this end, state governments should be held responsible for the general decline in basic education in Nigeria, leading to poor performances of students in public examinations.

Speaking in Abuja at meeting with the executives of Education Correspondents Association of Nigeria (ECAN), Dikko said a total of N37b is allocated to states annually to improve infrastructure in schools.

He, however, said UBEC as an intervention agency has little to do in terms of ensuring that quality and standards are maintained in primary and secondary schools in the country as people are made to believe.

Ezeigbo decries waning writing skills among secondary school pupils

By Eno-Abasi Sunday on September 10, 2015 4:08 am 

Former Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (right); Chairman, Mike Okonkwo Educational and Youth Initiative Yearly Lecture Prof. George Obiozor; winner of the essay competition and student of Port-Harcourt International School, Rivers State, Emeto Chisom; Presiding Bishop, The Redeemed Evangelical Mission (TREM)Dr, Mike Okonkwo; his wife Peace and Professor of English, University of Lagos, Prof, Akachi Ezeigbo at the 16th Mike Okonkwo Yearly Lecture in Lagos. PHOTO: FEMI ADEBESIN-KUTI

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Author, essayist and professor of English language at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, has lamented the worsening writing skills among secondary school pupils in the country, stressing the need rev up essay and sundry writing skills.