Education

The Chief of Staff to the Niger State Governor, Professor Mohammed Kuta Yahaya, is a Development Communication expert and former Senior Lecturer, University of Ibadan. In this interview with Our Correspondent, he bares his mind on his early education, his ground breaking academic successes, including his passion for the advancement of girl child education, as well as why the University of Ibadan remains one of the best universities in the world.

THE path to success is not paved with gold and the normal way to achieve whatever one wants in life is to avoid distractions fostered by modern day technology and social media networking that add no other value to one’s life except disruption of focus.

Comrade Olanrewaju Balogun (aka Balo) is the newly-elected President of the Students’ Union Government (SUG), Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), for the 2012/2013 academic session, he was the first LASPOTECH Brand Ambassador (Mr LASPOTECH) and a former Social Director of LASPOSUG. In this interview with Michael Orodare, Balogun reveals his plans for the students of the polytechnic and corrects some wrong perceptions about student unionism. Excerpts:

Primary school teachers in Benue State have been at loggerheads with the state government over the non-implementation of the new minimum wage. Johnson Babajide reports the explanation of  the State Chairman Comrade Godwin Anya, on the journey so far.