Author name: Oluwayemi Alabi

  The 37th General Assembly of the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, kicked off in Paris on Tuesday with Nigeria’s Supervising Minister of Education Ezenwo Nyesom Wike elected as one of the General Assembly’s vice presidents. China’s education minister Hao Ping was elected the president of the General Assembly. Wike led Nigeria’s […]

The Education Ministry and the US Agency for International Development have proposed a new programme The Early Grade Reading Assessment (EGRA) to promote reading habit in school-age children. EGRA is designed to understand the best foundation skills to be used in early-grade literacy programmes, said Bridget Okpa, director for policy, planning, management and research at

Many teens, especially boys, feel pressure to have sex before they are fully grown. According to research released this week, some 63 percent of teens believe that waiting to have sex is a good idea, but few people actually do. One in three boys ages 15-17 say they feel pressure to have sex, often from

It will come as a relief to those who failed to shine when taking an IQ test. After conducting the largest ever study of intelligence, researchers have found that far from indicating how clever you are, IQ testing is actually rather ‘meaningless’. In a bid to investigate the value of IQ, scientists asked more than

  Joints Joint can be defined as the spot or point where two or more bones meet. Joints can be found at the shoulder, wrist, knee, elbow, wrist, ankle, skull and fingers. It is made up of the following components; ·      Bones ·      Ligaments ·      Synovial membrane ·      Cartilages ·      Tendon Functions of the Component

  (By Katie Lepi) Kids these days. Constantly with their noses in their phones, texting their friends who are nine feet away from them. And if you had to take their phone away from them, you probably can barely decipher what they’re saying. While some of the abbreviations are pretty mainstream and/or understandable (LOL has

There is a dangerous new practice that can have serious legal and psychological consequences for your teen. It’s called sexting – sending sexually explicit text or photographs from mobile devices. The photographs are often shared voluntarily, but sometimes a young person may be coerced into taking or sending these photographs. Once the photos are sent,

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    Barely 48 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan engaged the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in a marathon 13-hour closed door meeting, in a bid to end the union’s four-month old strike, Vanguard gathered, yesterday, that officials of the Federal Ministry of Education have been directed to commence  processes for the re-opening of

  National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools(NAPPS) has called for autonomy to enable them regulate the affairs and activities of private schools in the country, pointing out that the association is in a better position to flush out bad eggs in the educational system involving private school owners.  The call came at the South-West