Two primary school teachers describe pupil as "chav" on Facebook.

While we can provide you with the intellectual capital if you are to eradicate poverty we need you to develop this country so that there are jobs to be had and a cake to be cut fairly. Happy New Year.

Two teachers who wrote on Facebook are told they can keep jobs.

Beneath the surface of Earth's second-largest continent is a wealth of minerals, petroleum, water and geothermal energy. African scientists are working to develop and manage this vast resource, but more scientists are needed to strengthen the work force in Africa's

The National Teachers Institute ( NTI ), Kaduna is partnering the Commonwealth of Learning to improve teachers' performance through training and retraining programmes. Commonwhealth of Learning Education Specialist, (Teacher Education) Dr. Abdurrahman Umar who disclosed this at the beginning of

The frosty political relationship between the opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party {ANPP} in Oyo state and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) controlled state government worsened during the yuletide as the opposition party in an assessment of the education policy of

Many tertiary institution, in an effort to expand access to education and according to some of them, reduce the hazards, which students facewhile traveling long distance to their main campuses; have established satellite campuses in different states.

Master Temi Wright, 17, is a writer and a student of Baptist Academy Secondary School, Obanikoro Lagos. He came second in last year's last year Mike Okonkwo Essay Competition, and won for himself N50, 000 and a plaque. The contestants

Kwara State Governor, Dr Bukola Saraki, at the weekend signed into law the State University Bill with a marching order to the Implementation Committee to commence the process of admitting students for the 2009/2010 academic session.

No fewer than 17 students have graduated from the Volunteer Corps, a Non Government Organisation (NGO) that provides opportunity for Nigerians to be of service to the nation and to themselves, through volunteering as a tool for change in education

Mis-governance is the most fundamental problem bedeviling democratic growth in Nigeria, Vice Chancellor of the Gombe State University, Professor Abdullahi Mahdi has said.

Surely, knowledge is a heritage in Northern Nigeria. One European writer wrote: "This aspect of their heritage was fortified by British assurances that they would not interfere with Islam as they establish indirect rule in Northern Nigeria".

The National Mathematical Centre (NMC) is seeking partnership with the Education Trust Fund (ETF) to simplify the teaching and learning of Mathematics through an intensive training programme billed to commence in January 2009.

The matric pass rate of prisoners has declined to 75 percent this year from 100 percent last year, the correctional services department has said.

For Kwara State College of Education, Oro, the first College of Education established in Kwara State, it is goodby to laborious registration as the school has unveiled state-of-the-art Student Record Management System (SRMS), a complete ICT kit that allows the

Governor Ibrahim Shekarau of Kano State, has approved the appointment of the President of Dangote Group of Companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, as Chancellor of the Kano State University of Science and Technology (KUST), Wudil.

Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has resolved to go on an indefinite nation-wide strike action from January 5, 2009, if the Federal government refuses to address the issues that border around the welfare of its members.

Ocean Crest School, Lekki Lagos is to organise a training session for parents during the next term that begins on January 12.

The year 2008, for the education sector, ends on a controversial note of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua dissociating himself from the speech read on his behalf by the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr. Goke Adegoroye at the convocation

At least students coming out of high school in the south-eastern region, particularly in Grand Gedeh County will have no cause coming to Monrovia to continue their education as a new university that seeks to offer degrees in over 21