Atlanta Area School Superintendent Investigated by Police

Stone Mountain, GA – Investigators with the Dekalb County District Attorney’s Office executed a search warrant at the home of current Dekalb County School Superintendent Crawford Lewis today. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Superintendent Lewis’ upscale home in the Southland subdivision was searched around 7:30 am. Officers seized three computer hard drives and four boxes [...]

Nigerian Academic staffs demands the removal of Vice Chancellor

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria of Kaduna state, Nigeria has called for the immediate resignation of the Acting Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Aliyu Mohammed and the conduct of fresh elections to the office of Vice Chancellor following due process from the university’s congregation to its senate.

Nigerian students to hold anti-Government protest over 3.5Billion Naira fraud

One million Nigerian students under the group known as National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) is to stage an anti-Government match in protest of corrupt practices in Zamafara state over 3.5Billion naira annual fraud in the educational sector of the state.

Presidential Proclamation – Wright Brothers Day

For 12 seconds on December 17, 1903, a wooden aircraft took to the skies above Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, lifting two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, to their place in history. Their singular triumph triggered a revolution in transportation that would bridge the vast distances between continents and forever alter our world. Today, we honor the enduring American spirit of creativity and innovation that made the Wright Brothers’ maiden flight possible.

65% of Nigerian Educational Institutions are substandard

The good news, Nigeria have 102 Universities, 125 Polytechnics and 98 College of Education making 325 educational institutes graduating over 30, 000 students yearly. These institutes offer all kinds of courses that enable the institutions to admit many students even more than the school can take.

Who Created Gays?

Gays and lesbians are part of our society and in the US if not completely accepted, at least they are not persecuted as in some other parts of the world. There is much dispute regarding why they are that way; however. Who is responsible? Is it genes? Is it a choice? Could God have a hand in this seemingly “unnatural” state of being?

Pearl Harbor Day Remembrance – The First Sneak Attack on the USA

WorldNewsVine pays tribute to those that lost their lives on this, a day of anniversary that only to remind us, that trust is something that is word with little meaning in the world.

I have enclosed a brief history of the days events courtesy of Wikipedia

Winners of UN prize for use of technology in education unveiled

27 November 2009 – The Rector of the Moscow Institute of Open Education and Jordan’s Ministry of Information and Communications Techonology have been chosen as the winners of an annual United Nations prize for the use of ICTs in education.

Does Higher Tuition Mean Better Education?

As high school students are busy submitting college applications, parents are probably wondering how they are going to be paying for the tuition. While private schools cost double or triple the tuition at a state school, is it better to attend the expensive private schools even if it means emptying out the saving account?
For example, [...]

William J. Clinton Foundation – Test Your Global IQ

 To All From The William J. Clinton Foundation,I don’t have to tell you that we’re in the middle of a climate crisis. Or that HIV/AIDS still claims far too many lives. You’re already acutely aware of these realities.
But you may be surprised by what you DON’T know about some of today’s most pressing challenges.
Take my [...]

One week after shooting, from a student's point of view

It has been a week since the fatal incident at the American River Courtyard residence halls at Sacramento State University. A student living in the dormitory beat his suite mate to death with a bat. The investigation is still ongoing; the motive for this murder has not been released.
As a student reporter with the State [...]