Written by Blessed Adjekpagbon
The first edition of The Nigerian Education Times magazine of
2022 is replete with a lot of interesting and insightful stories concerning
some notable news and events that happened in 2021 after schools fully resumed
from Covid - 19 induced lockdown.
According to NAPPS President, Chief Olawale Amusa, "
NAPPS
Conference Center / Estate will start soonest with the acquisition of already
out 120 plots of land, fenced in an easily accessible area at Agbowa, Lagos
State."
Other interesting articles in the magazine's contents includes In search for quality education in Nigeria;
Enough of distraction to education of the Nigerian child; Name Lagos State University
(LASU) after Jakande, Curbing act of bullying in schools, Challenges in
managing the secondary education sector, Press Release: Step up school safety
measures, Lagos urges school administrators; There is the need to address the
challenges faced by women and children in Nigeria.
ln addition, some notable topics that also feature in the
magazine are: "Reforming Education
in Nigeria; No nation makes meaningful progress in its development, without
embracing science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship; WAEC announces
release of results of the West African Senior School Certificate examination
for school candidates; and My husband
is not the true biological father of our son.
However, the press release by the Lagos State Ministry of
Education is worth highlighting as it urges administrators in both public and
private schools operating in the state, to step up school safety measures to
curb negative happenings in their environment.
Part of the press statement by the state Commissioner for
Education, Mrs Folashade Adefisayo says "School administrators should
devise appropriate strategies to advance teacher/student interaction in order
to gain an insight and expose negative tendencies before they metamorphosed
into unfortunate situations." This is very imperative at this time because
of recent happenings among some private schools’ students in the state, in
terms of the death of a student of one popular private school in Lekki suburb,
and a pornographic video of a junior female student of another private school
that went viral on the internet.
Another noteworthy article in the magazine is the one titled
"No nation makes meaningful progress in its development, without embracing
science, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship." This assertion is
credited to Nigeria's current Minister of Science, Technology and lnnovation,
Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu. In the article written by Ebenezer Oloyede, the minister
says the "political will" to provide quality education is important
for innovation, sustainable growth and socio - economic development across
nations.
Nonetheless, the concluding part of the magazine is a human
interest story titled "My husband is not the true biological father of our
son." In the article, a woman confesses that she got married 35
years ago and the marriage is blessed with three children- a male and two
females. The trio are university graduates. lt is an interesting read and
highly recommended for those who might want to know the details in order to
learn some lessons from it.
Some commendable qualities of the magazine are its glossy and
colorful pages from its beginning to the end, bright/clear pictures of various
notable personalities, divers schools' advertisements; coupled with very simple
diction. These make reading it worthwhile.
Chief Tunde Ogunsola is the magazine's Editor - in - Chief and
CEO. He lives in Lagos, Nigeria.
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