The Governor of Kaduna state, Uba Sani has affirmed that Kaduna State’s decision to slash tuition fees at state-owned tertiary institutions by up to 50 per cent is removing long-standing financial barriers to university education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Speaking through his Principal Private Secretary, Bello Ayuba, at the inauguration of the Kaduna State Students Union chapter at Kaduna …

To say that the post secondary education tier has most tortuously struggled to endure the recent years in Nigeria may amount to an understatement. There’s perhaps no stronger evidence of this than the choice of the theme of the convocation lecture of Modibbo Adama University, Yola delivered Friday, 12th May 12. Understandably and gratuitously too, the lecture was titled “Nigerian …