Category: Education – Tertiary
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Jubril Aminu, Politician and educationist, also a cardiologist. In the event leading up to the Ali Must Go Students riot in 1978, Aminu as National Universities Commission, NUC Executive Secretary, asked the Supreme Military Council to introduce 50k per meal to augment the government subsides[i]. Showing versatility in his scholarship, Aminu played a significant role…
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Babatunde Fafunwa Aliu; Nigerian educationist, only Nigerian academic to have been involved in all the reform processes of the country’s education sector since independence. Fafunwa was an advocate of free education and of the mother-tongue policy which supports the notion that primary school pupils should be taught in their native languages for better assimilation. As…
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Gideon Tseja; Educationist who was consultant to the National Open University Nigeria, NOUN on course materials development. Tseja is a biographer and professor of English. To promote his advocacy for healthy living, he cycled over 200 kilometers from Zaria to Kano and later, to Kaduna. He advocates a clean and safe environment, and living in…
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Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso (LAUTECH) is a technology-oriented university that is located in the South-Western region of Nigeria. It was named for Samuel Ladoke Akintola (a native of Ogbomoso who was premier of the Western Region of Nigeria in his lifetime). The university has two campuses: Ogbomoso (in Oyo state) and Osogbo (in…
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Akinwuntan Abiodun is the Nigerian physical therapist whose doctoral study led to the first-ever use of a high fidelity and interactive driving simulator to train stroke patients to drive again, anywhere in the world. As a student at the University of Lagos, Biodun was gregarious and showed interest in business rather than academics. However, he…
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Akintunde Ojo was the third year student of the Faculty of Environmental Design of the University of Lagos shot dead in April 1978 by the police during a protest against the increment of in feeding and lodging school fee for Nigerian universities. The increment, occasioned by the belt-tightening policy of the federal government following the reversal…
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Ade-Ojo Michael is an eminent businessman player of the Nigerian automobile industry. Born on June 14, 1938 at Ilara-Mokin, Ade Ojo had his secondary school education at Imade College, Owo under the headship of Adekunle Ajasin. After a short course in Agriculture, and brief experience at a government ministry, he went to the University of…
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Yaba Medical School was a colonial medical training college founded in 1930 to train medical assistants with the award of a diploma. The school represents the first steps in post-secondary education in Nigeria. ERJ Hussey, as director of Education in Nigeria from 1929 to 1936, through his advocacy for a shiftfrom literary education to practical…
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In this editorial of The Nigerian Provincial Guardian of 17 April, 1937, originally titled; “Education of the Mind,” the writer discusses what ought to be the object of education for the youth. The chief objects of mental education are to cultivate and discipline the mind, and to store it with those great facts and principles…