2016
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The decline in quality education in nigeria (2) The role of parents in a child’s education.
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
No CommentsLast week, I wrote about the misconception of the true role of education which in large measure has resulted in the decline in quality of education in Nigeria. I stated among others that the purpose
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ILLEGAL UNIVERSITIES ON THE INCREASE
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
ILLEGAL UNIVERSITIES ON THE INCREASE “Amend NUC Law to empower closure and forfeiture of illegal institutions and impose life jail for their proprietors”. I have over the past weeks focused on the reasons for the advent of Private Universities and why despite the challenges being faced by them, the portrayal of these schools, in the
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JUDGMENT DEBTS: INEQUALITY OF GOVERNMENT AND THE CITIZEN BEFORE TEH LAW
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“It is a result of this that I wish to draw attention, at this most auspicious of moments to the golden principle of law which should guard governance at all levels of our society, which is the principle of ‘Equality Before the Law’ ”. In less than 24 hours from now, Nigeria will witness yet
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BUDGET TRANSPARENCY AS A MEANS OF CURBING MISAPPROPRIATION OF PUBLIC FUNDS: THE EKITI EXAMPLE
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“It is heart-warming that the 2015 Nigerian States budget transparency survey report declared Ekiti State as the most transparent state in Nigeria. When in 1996, I prepared and defended the memorandum for the creation of Ekiti State before Mbanefo Panel, I was asked, what qualified Ekiti for a state. Part of my answer was the
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PROPOSED REINTRODUCTION OF TOLL GATES ON FEDERAL ROADS (1)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Afe on Thursday, Funding
PROPOSED REINTRODUCTION OF TOLL GATES ON FEDERAL ROADS (1) “On a particular occasion, I instructed some of my lawyers to observe the volume of traffic from three points on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway over a 24 hour period. The volume of vehicular traffic observed and the expected revenue from these was mind blowing”. Recently the Federal
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PRESIDENTIAL SYSTEM: THE CAUSE OF NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS – ABOLITION OF ONE OF THE TWO CHAMBERS (3)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
“Approximately half of the world’s sovereign states are presently unicameral, including both the most populous (the People’s Republic of China). With the adoption of unicameral legislation the waste which has for long been associated with maintenance of political structures in Nigeria will reduce drastically”. Two weeks ago, I started an examination of
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THE ROLES OF TEACHERS IN DWINDLING EDUCATION (4) Teachers And Time Management
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
“No other irreplaceable resource has been wasted in Nigeria, like the resource of time. The capital lost by Nigeria to illegal oil bunkering, gas flaring, oil spillages and other oil related environmental degradation put together cannot equal 10 percent of the capital it loses due to lack of proper time management by its working class”.
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PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES: THE HOPE OF NIGERIA’S TERTIARY EDUCATION (5)
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Afe on Thursday, Education
PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES: THE HOPE OF NIGERIA’S TERTIARY EDUCATION (5) “Congratulations sir, for being a beacon of hope for generation of Nigerian parents who desperately desire a great future for their children without sending them to study abroad”. In this edition, I will examine the criticism levied by Mr. Laolu Harolds against NUC and Private Universities on
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GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE:
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Politics
PREMATURE DISSOLUTION OF GOVERNING COUNCILS “Whilst some Nigerians continue to complain that the standard of education in the country has fallen, I prefer to say that what we have is a problem of low quality… The guidelines laid down by the NUC acting pursuant to this provision and which are applicable to all Nigerian
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MINISTER’S PRONOUNCEMENT TO SCRAP POST-UTME EXAMS: A SERIOUS MISTAKE
- July 7, 2016
- Posted by: itmanager
- Category: Education
MINISTER’S PRONOUNCEMENT TO SCRAP POST-UTME EXAMS: A SERIOUS MISTAKE “Most importantly, the introduction of Post-UTME examination has rendered the jumbo marks hitherto obtained by unscrupulous students from JAMB useless and irrelevant. Its revocation will pave way for the return of the abominable practice that damage the image of JAMB ”. On the 2nd June, 2016 the