Category: Education

Wale JAGUN The immediate past Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Ikorodu branch, Executive Member of the State Chapter of NUT and the Ikorodu branch Chairman, Association of Primary School Heads of Nigeria (AOPSHON), Asiwaju Lateef Babatunde Oduguwa, on Friday, December 14, 2018, performed his last official assignment as a teacher and as an employee of the Lagos State Government amidst honours and commendations from colleagues and subordinates.   Oduguwa arrived Oga Primary School, where he was the Head Teacher until Friday, around 7am and supervised the cleaning…

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has declared its intention to begin on a nationwide strike from Wednesday, 12th of December, 2018. In a phone interview with our Correspondent, the National President of ASUP, Usman Dutse said it has become the strike has become imminent  because the Federal Government had failed to meet with the demands of Polytechnics Lecturers. The union has given a 21 day ultimatum on the 2nd of October, 2018. Dutse said the proposed strike this December would be total and indefinite. The decision was made…

The meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ended without any conclusion on Tuesday. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU National President, while speaking with newsmen at the end of the closed door meeting in Abuja noted that negotiations were still ongoing. He said both parties were yet to reach a concrete decision. “For now, we have started to discuss. We are yet to reach any concrete decision. Once we have more information, we will make ourselves available to the press. “The union will reconvene very…

Kunle ADELABU The Chairman, United Bank for Africa Group and the Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Mr Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu, CON, has advocated for the revamping of the Nigerian and other African countries’ educational sector in a bid to make it focus more on the socio-economic challenges of their respective immediate environment.   To do this, Mr Elemelu, who was the guest speaker at the public lecture to commemorate the 40 years anniversary of the existence of the Lagos State Polytechnic, stated that there is urgent need to place more…

Wale JAGUN In an effort to make the students of the premier college in Ikorodu, Oriwu Senior Model College (formerly Oriwu College), Ikorodu, develop entrepreneurship and Information Technology skills, the Class of 2000 of the school has organized a seminar to guide their career decisions.   The seminar, which was held at the school hall on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, was themed, “Beyond Educational Career”.   In his opening speech, Mr Lateef Sholanke, the Chairman, Oriwu College Old Students Association of Nigeria (OCOSAN), 2000 Set, enjoined the students to learn…

Kunle ADELABU The celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Ikorodu on Wednesday, November 21, 2018, provided the foremost institution of vocational and technological studies in Nigeria, an opportunity to exhibit inventions and other products by its various departments.   Coincidentally, the exhibition took place on the same day the anniversary lecture, which was titled, ‘Repositioning Technical Education for Technological Development and Food Security’ and delivered by the Chairman, United Bank for Africa Group and the Founder, The Tony Elumelu Foundation, My Tony O. Elumelu, CON,…