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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Kelechukwu Iruoma STAKEHOLDERS have  said that the lack of admission space and quality research work in Nigerian universities have been the  major reasons parents choose foreign institutions for their wards. In her submission, Mr Rose Omonobi, of Nubi Education and services limited pointed out that the 1.7m registered JAMB candidates struggling for 850,000 admission spaces in Nigerian tertiary institutions was a food for thought. Speaking at an Education Fair in Lagos, Omonobi said: ‘’We do not have enough universities to absorb our students. Many people who pass out from the secondary schools every year have problems gaining admission through JAMB. ‘’It  is not that our students are not intelligent or they could not pass the examination, it is because the system is bad. Not that I find it interesting sending people abroad to study. We have to make Nigeria worthwhile for our students.” She added that if our graduates will compete favourably glo...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Tare Youdeowei President, Oyede Development Union, ODU, Mr Peter Akarogbe, in conjunction with Every Child Counts Initiative For Education, ECCIFED, has donated free text books to schools in Oyede community, Isoko North Local Government Area of Delta State. Handing over the books to the schools at Comprehensive High School, Oyede, Akarogbe said that the gesture was borne out of the need for the union to contribute its quota to the development of educational standard and eradication of illiteracy from the community. He said another reason for the donation was that the reading culture of the Nigerian child has drastically dropped and has seriously affected the quality of the output in the schools, stressing that the reading culture of Nigerian children has fallen to 30 percent according to the United Nations, UN, rating. He said, “Research has also shown that this less reading habit and culture recorded amongst our students today is also a result of non-avail...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Festus Ahon ASABA—WIFE of Delta State governor, Dame Edith Okowa, has assisted a fire disaster victim and widow,  Mrs Veronica Nwaneri,  whose house was gutted by fire in Agbor, in 2015. Speaking during the presentation ceremony, attended by the state Commissioner, Bureau for Special Duties, Mr. Ernest Ogwezzy and the Director of SEMA, Mrs Gladys Puegeren, Mrs Okowa urged public spirited individuals in the society to reach out to the less privileged. Noting that government will continue to intervene in the challenges faced by Deltans, she said there was still the need for privileged persons to aid those in difficulty, adding that the state government could not do it alone. The governor’s wife commended  the Bureau for Special Duties for the good job it was doing in the state. Mr. Ogwezzy, who also spoke at the event, commended Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for assisting the Bureau and SEMA to attend swiftly to disaster victims in the state, saying t...