USING EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ............the Ben Kalu's standard "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” – Nelson Mandela Education is the first step for people to gain the knowledge, critical thinking, empowerment and skills they need to make this world a better place. It’s important to seize the day, but always make time to go deeper and wider in your learning, the cure for boredom is curiosity but there is no cure for curiosity.  The more you learn, the more you want to learn, the more the world becomes more interesting to you, and discovering it becomes more fun.  "If You are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people” this is a popular Chinese Proverb. Rep Benjamin Kalu's giant strides in the education sector is quite commendable. His evenly distributed dividends of democracy makes him even more admirab

 PLAGIARISM ROCKS UNN, VICE CHANCELLOR KEEPS MUM                    By             Azuka Omeje As the strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) enters the fifth week, the University of Nigeria Nsukka is plagued by a plagiarism scandal which the management is unwilling to investigate or wield the big stick using subsisting laws and regulations of the University. A big cloud of uncertainty hovers around the campus as forces around the vice Chancellor perfects plot to sweep the matter under the carpet. Trouble erupted in the Department of history and international Studies when a staff and a church pastor in the good books of the management plagiarised at the departmental PhD seminar. In the presence of Professors and senior academics, the culprit's work was stepped down with a senior member of the department writing a petition to the university with detailed evidence of the shameful act. The plagiarised work belonged to the immediate past VC of Ambrose Alli

 TOP 500 RESEARCHERS IN UNN: PROF. VICTOR UKAOGO IN THE MIX By Iheke Nwachukwu In what has become an annual ritual of academic achievement measured in terms of research accomplishments in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, the list of 500 highly reputed researchers has been released. Compiled by SciVal Elsivier-an internationally recognized publication database used for University rankings, SciVal contains database populated by publication data taken from the Elsevier scopus database. Elsevier analyzises research areas to find top performing universities and authors and is based in Boston University, United States. For the University of Nigeria, the top 500 authors came from all the faculties and departments with the sciences topping the log. Dr Uche Okonkwo and Prof. Victor Ukaogo, both of the department of history and international Studies were tops in the Faculty of Arts. Whereas Dr Okonkwo was 58th on the University log and first in the Faculty Prof. Ukaogo was 229th on the log and

REP BENJAMIN KALU THROWS MORE LIGHT ON THE RE - AMENDED ELECTORAL BILL ........as he clears the air on controversial areas What appears to be a fresh row between state governors and members of the National Assembly is in the offing over the re-amended electoral bill, which has been presented to President Muhammadu Buhari for his assent. The governors, our correspondent learnt, are not happy with two new clauses introduced by the lawmakers. The resignation of appointed political office holders, such as ministers, commissioners, special advisers and others who are interested in contesting for elective positions before primaries preceding such elections is one of the clauses. Secondly, the lawmakers have also stipulated conditions for political parties interested in picking their candidates through the consensus option. The two clauses were believed to have been inserted by the lawmakers to make it difficult for governors to impose their anointed candidates on political par