The debate on quality higher education, particularly University education in Nigeria appears to suggest that the delivery of quality education is solely the responsibility of the federal government; and the current state of the education sector is primarily a result of poor funding. There is no doubt that the federal government should play a major …
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Dear Colleague, I am pleased to invite your participation in our youth social indicators project ‘call for papers’ and request you to kindly disseminate this letter to faculty members whose research focuses on topics related to adolescent and youth development in Nigeria. Of particular interest are papers from education, social sciences, health sciences and agricultural sciences. The aim of …
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The theme of the 2012 (sixth edition of the) African Youth Day is apt: ‘deliver as one to empower youth for sustainable development.’ Such a theme acknowledges everything that is wrong with the current youth development architecture on the continent, which certainly needs fixing. The theme also resonates with the call for better integration and …
The more one thinks about development policies currently being put in place or, in some cases, already operational, the more it is apparent that there is need for better integration and cross sectoral cooperation in the development of new policies. In fact, no sector’s role is useless (no matter how marginal) in deriving a new …
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Last week I travelled to one of the Universities in the South-South of Nigeria on a ‘scoping’ visit. In the course of my trip, I had cause to use an ATMachine. I spent several minutes, perhaps around 45 minutes, waiting my turn on the rather long queue. I wondered why the queue dragged, even though there …
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Okolobi! 