A Nation in the Orbit of Re-Invention: The Harvard School Report and the Failed State Stamp

  The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States have released a damning report that Nigeria as a nation is at a point of no return, with all the signs of a failed nation. The organisation made the disclosure in research findings it released recently through its senior…

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Sex-for-Grades: Tackling the Menace With Computer-Based Exams

Reports of lecturers offering high grades in exchange for sex saturate the media space. Two lecturers from the University of Lagos were recently sacked two years after they were exposed in a sex-for-grades documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Both lecturers, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Language and Integrated Studies, and…

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Quality Education: Between Fee Increase and Strategic Income Generating Projects

Students of Kaduna State University (KASU) on Wednesday 26 May 2021 created massive gridlock in the state as they protested the recent increment of school fees by the state government. The state government had increased school fees across its tertiary institutions three weeks ago: the a development that was condemned by the Academic Staff Union…

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FG and ASUU May Reconcile Soon

The Federal Government commenced negotiation with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to dissolve the persisting strike action recently. Lecturers of Federal and State-Owned Universities have declined resumption for over six months as a result of the implementation of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) salary payment platform. The indefinite strike is…

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