Title slide test
Title slide/page: Topic Sub-topic Lesson No Curriculum/Syllabus guide: e.g. WAEC, JAMB… Class: e.g. JSS1, 2 or 3, SSS1, 2 or3, WAEC, JAMB Date of…
Using YouTube videos as learning aids
An interesting aspect of (in)formal learning is the use of traditional audio-visual media like TV, DVDs and VHS to learn. With the advent of…
12 Steps in Using PowerPoint to Design Audio/Video Lessons
This post is part of edusounds.com.ng’s low-tech-enabled toolkit for remote learning during the Covid-19 global pandemic. The 12 Steps: Before Recording: Open a new…
Using WhatsApp for Remote Learning
A simple and low-tech approach to delivering remote learning is the use of the free calling and chatting application – WhatsApp. Although, the use…
How to make video lessons using PowerPoint
As we are faced with the Corona Virus (Covid-19) global pandemic, and in an unprecedented way people are being encouraged to work remotely from…
Writing is a process
My friend, @idrisayobello, posted a comment from Anne Lammot on writing in a WhatsApp group we both belong to, and that got me thinking…
It’s Back to School Time: Seven factors to consider before you enrol your child in that school
Recently a friend asked me on WhatsApp what my suggestion will be on choosing a good school for his children. That is a tough…
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. Rauf
Wow! This is a page turner. A stunningly well-crafted and empathetic story about: home, families, loss, destruction, inhumanity, kindness, bigotry, migration, wars… There used…
Bridge Schools can’t be the solution to the poor state of public education in Nigeria
This blog post is a response to “The push for “free” universal education in Africa often falls short – here’s a better way” by…
Dreaming the Bear by Mimi Thebo
This story is set in the wild on woodland in a National Park in the US, and told through the mind, eyes and experience…
Should I go for a postgraduate study?
Occasionally I do get requests from friends and associates on giving advice on a postgraduate course they can embark on as educators to improve…
Ten Study Skills’ Strategies for parents: on helping children to study more effectively
This blog post is a summary from The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Many students don’t know how to study. Here’s how parents can help”; I…
A Nation in Literacy Crisis (1): the ICT skills conundrum
In a thread on twitter by @Ennyraquel, she highlights two important issues in the Nigerian secondary education sector. She tweeted about how some…
Towards an equitable and free education
A video of a young girl (child) of about five or six years old went viral on Nigeria’s social media platforms. In the video…
Physically so far away but emotionally very close: the sad news of the collapsed school building in Lagos Island
A few days ago a student asked me “when are we going to have fire drill?” and my response was “I don’t know, and…
Fear, Dreams, Aspirations and Freedom in the midst of Doubts
Dear parent, As you worry about your child’s forthcoming end of secondary education terminal examinations – WAEC and JAMB if you’re in Nigeria –…
Almajiri Education System in Northern Nigeria: an interview with Dr. Hannah Hoechner
Hannah Hoechner’s research seeks to shed light on the diversity and dynamism of Islamic schooling practices in contexts of ongoing social change. Her doctoral…
Privatisation of Public Education Provision in Lagos State
The twitter thread below got me thinking on the future of public education in Lagos state and this blog post is my short response…
Still on the issue of Almajiranci
Recently I engaged in a discussion on the issue of Almajiranci education on social media; you can check the Twitter thread below. Personally, I…
Talking About Depression with Dr Omotolani Aregbesola of Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos
In this podcast episode I interviewed Dr Omotolani Aregbesola, a Senior Registrar at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba in Lagos, Nigeria. [mixcloud width=”” height=””…
A Case for Digital Literacy: Reflecting on BBC’s Like. Share. Kill. magazine report on the deadly effects of Fake News in Nigeria
In The Medium Is The Message by Marshall McLuhan (YouTube), he emphasised the significance of how the different mediums through which mass media are…
Environmental Conservation Education in Nigeria: An interview with Dr Lekan Adekola of York St. John University, UK
Today, we will be talking to Dr Olalekan Adekola, a geographer and lecturer at Young St. John University in the UK. So, Adekola will…
Re: The Guardian (Nigeria) editorial “Lagos public schools and Hijab distraction”
This post is a necessary but an unfortunate one because at this stage in the history of Nigeria we shouldn’t be debating the use…
Twenty ways to promote reading habits among children at home
Twenty ways to promote reading habits among children at home or in the neighbourhood. These suggestions are not set in stone, hence, please feel…
In Conversation with Dr. Ify Aniebo: The GMO issue (Part 1)
This interview is the first part of a three-part podcast interview that I conducted over Skype with Dr. Ify Aniebo, a genetics scientist and…
Matters arising from JAMB: A Review of JAMB’s 2018 Policy Meeting Presentation by the Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede
This post is based on data extracted from a presentation during JAMB’s 2018 policy meeting, delivered by the Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, in June…
Leap of Faith: the return of faith based schools to their founders by Lagos state government
The issue of faith based school in the present day Nigeria has been of interest to me for a while even though I had…
The joys of mathematics: a maths autobiography
I read a blog post “Math autobiographies” by Kent Haines, a middle school math teacher in the US, who wanted to know more about…
A review of Annie Dillard’s “The writing life”: seeing writing through metaphors
The line of words is a hammer. You hammer against the walls of your house. You tap the walls, lightly, everywhere…Some of the walls…
DATA and Victimhood: the unfortunate situation of out-of-school children in Nigeria
Recently I read an article online in which the author emphasised the need to report data through story and not story through data. The…
Summer Programmes: What Are They Good For?
You see, I want to talk to you about long (summer) holidays and children. When I was a child I used to welcome the…
My Summer Reading List: Influenced by Nigeria’s Social Media Political Discourse
For a while the socio-political and ethno-religious use of social media within Nigeria’s contexts have been of immense concerns to me. The power and…
Technology as a LinkedIn Feature in Nigeria’s Public Education Sector: A Letter to the VP @ProfOsinbajo
In the coming years, we might actually be facing a major problem, so the way to go is to begin at the lowest possible…
The Viral Effects of Plagiarism: in the Nigerian Higher Education Sector
Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own, with or without their consent, by incorporating it into your work without without…
What’s in a curriculum?
It’s important to start this post on the definition of what a curriculum is, not because I’m doubting readers’ intelligence or ability to make…
A Lens Through NCE’s Teacher Education Curriculum
The NCE…aims at producing teachers with high personal and professional discipline and integrity, teachers who are dedicated, with appropriate knowledge, skills and attitudes that…
JAMB’s Nine Billion Naira (#9 B) Question
The story of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the evolution of its income remittance to the federation account from a paltry total…
Don’t Wait Just Act: Supporting Indigent Children’s Education
For a while I’ve been thinking about writing about death. Not because I want to be awkward or because I’m a pessimist or what…
Language and Math Read-Alouds in Practice: Evidence from Northern Nigeria
This post is a review of ‘Effectiveness of Read-Aloud Instruction on Reading and Math Outcomes: Evidence from Northern Nigeria’, EPDC Research Paper No. 18-01….
Why You Should Read Aloud to Your Child
SUPPORT FOR LEARNING Percentage of Children BIOLOGICALMOTHERS have engaged in 4hrs or more activities (during last 3 days): Nigeria: 22.1% North Central: 30.3%North East:…
Informal Apprenticeship System: the politics of shoe shining
Recently I was involved in a group discussion on a news report of a Federal House of Representative Member (albeit the Commissioner of Higher…
‘All for education’
A thread on Twitter by Juliet ‘Kego, @julietkego, got me thinking about the vital role we all could play individually and collectively in improving…
A Layman’s suggestions on the challenges facing #Almajiranci education system in Nigeria
While I do not have a direct experience of most of the challenges facing the #Almajiranci education system in Nigeria, I have some suggestions on how…
Discussing #Almajiranci education in Nigeria: my ten (eleven) takeaway points
The issue of #Almajiranci education system in Nigeria has many historical tensions around it from both sides of the divide, that is, those in support of it or those against…
#Almajiranci in Nigeria: Issues and Recommendations
‘#Almajiranci in Nigeria: Issues and Recommendations’ Our Tweeter chat for the month of May was hosted by Dr Hadiza Kere, @dj_kere. She is an expert on…
Public education funding in Nigeria: issues and recommendations.
Public education funding in Nigeria: issues and recommendations. For our monthly Twitter chat (#StudiEDAfrica) in April, our host was Oriyomi Ogunwale, @waleoriyomi, a graduate of…
The Gifts of Nature: a case for conservation education
Listening to the sonorous melodies from chirping birds around me in my normal walkway to and from work. There’s a joy in witnessing the…
The role of local authorities in public education provision in Sub-Saharan Africa
The role of local authorities in public education provision in Sub-Saharan Africa In the month of March, 2018, we commenced @StudiEDAfrica with hashtag #StudiEDAfrica –…
The playful child and Nigeria’s early childhood education policy
There has been a tremendous growth in the need and demand for early years centres in Nigeria. Compared to a few decades ago, the…
Home-based early years literacy practice among families in Nigeria
Dear Reader, Throughout the month of March 2018, EdusoundsNg conducted an online survey on early years literacy practice among families in Nigeria. The survey’s…
Teacher education and quality of teaching in Nigeria
As a result of the persistent mass failure among WAEC candidates in Nigeria, the Nigerian senate decided to set up a committee to look…
Lagos state government and its Yoruba language preservation policy
Finally, the federal government announced that they would be introducing the use of native Nigerian languages in the delivery of Maths and Science education….
The need for daycare and early childhood education in Nigeria
Please, as you’re here, support my work by participating in my survey on home-based early years’ literacy practice among families in Nigeria, and remember…
World Book Day: A reading experience
I once wrote about how sports helped me in developing reading habit. I can still remember turning my used school notebooks at the end…
The tragicomedy of the money swallowing snake in Nigeria’s foremost higher education admissions institution (JAMB)
At first it was a rumour, then it became humour, then a subject of denial until the video clip of the confessional statement of…
What happened to the Minister’s Ten Pillars of Nigerian Education Reform?
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, while hosting the governor of Niger state at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Education was…
ITF To Provide Skills Acquisition Hubs: To Be or Not To Be?
In an attempt to reduce youth unemployment and restiveness, the Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF) of Nigeria, Mr Boss Mustapha, suggested to the…
Supporting Children’s Education at Home
This post is based on a WhatsApp Q&A session I had recently with a group of friends. The responses are informed sometimes by research…
The ILA’s 2018 What’s Hot in Literacy Report and Emerging Issues In Nigeria’s Compulsory Education Sector
A new report released on January 8, 2017 by the International Literacy Association (ILA) reveals wide gaps between what’s truly valuable (what’s important) to…
Medical Education and Practice in Nigeria
This is a guest post by Dr Ayodipupo Sikiru Oguntade. Shortage of medical manpower has been a perennial problem in Nigeria since pre-independence. The…
Our posts in 2017
If you missed or would like to re-read any of our posts in 2017, we have all of them listed below for you according…
Book Review: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg (2013)
The Power of Habit: Duhigg, C. (2013). London: Random House Books. …to change an old habit, you must address an old craving. You have…
Nigerian literature: An Interview with Dr Tiziana Morosetti
Dr Morosetti is a tutor in African Literature and a fixed-term affiliate to the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, where she runs an…
Feedback is the soul of the system
While I was doing an online research on the framework for teaching standards in Nigeria, I stumbled on the digitisation project of the National…
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King (Book review)
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. In “On…
On Blogging
There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them. ― Jo Walton On December 25th…
Improving the quality of education of vulnerable children outside mainstream schools
It all started with a random amateur video shared via a social media platform. As I clicked on the video and started watching it,…
On Reading
Reading gives us the opportunity to travel to places known and unknown to us, to share in the lived experience of others, to bridge…
Between Kaduna state government and the sacked 22,000 teachers
The Kaduna state government in an attempt to improve the quality of education in the state conducted a “competency test” that it graded to…
‘For Learning and Culture’: the sad case of a deceased student
Some few weeks ago a sad event was relayed in the mainstream media in Nigeria and the event involved a 16 year old female…
Juvenile delinquency
In a video interview of a young boy of about 13 years old posted on Facebook, conducted in Yoruba language and summarised by the…
Towards a sustainable education in Nigeria: the role of the national curriculum
At the University of Manchester Museum’s money section there are display boards of different objects used historically as mediums of business transactions in West…
How I write
If those who have studied the art of writing are in accord on any one point, it is this: the surest way to…
Reducing the high rate of youths unemployment in Nigeria: a case for vocational education and training
The Federal Government established the National Board for Technical Education by Act 9 of January 1977. In August, 1985 and January 1993 respectively, the…
Evolving Issues In The Public Education Sector In Nigeria: Challenges of Pursuing Postgraduate Studies in Nigerian Public Universities
This is a guest post by a contributor who has requested to be made anonymous. According to dictionary.com, education can be referred to as…
Alternative protein source: Insects consumption in Nigeria
This is a guest post by Baseerah Sarumi, an Entomologist with The Federal Institute of Industrial Research (FIIRO) in Nigeria. INSECTS CONSUMPTION PATTERNS IN THE…
Lagos migrant histories: an interview with Dr Abosede George
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/EdusoundsNg/lagos-migrant-histories-an-interview-with-dr-abosede-george/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1] Transcript Today I will be interviewing Dr. Abosede George of the University of Columbia and Barnard…
Evolving Issues In The Public Education Sector In Nigeria: ASUU strike
The most deeply dividing and political debate on and about education in Nigeria recently has not been the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU)…
Evolving issues in the public education sector in Nigeria: Katsina state as a case study.
The daily trust in one of its reports on education stated that the Katsina state government was considering if it should redeploy its directors…
Should children as young as five years old be made to take entrance examinations in order to get into Primary Schools?
Recently I saw a comment on a social media group platform in which someone posted the entrance results of new intakes into a primary…
Why blogging is important: an interview with Dr Carol Azumah Dennis (Episode 10)
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/EdusoundsNg/blogging-as-public-pedagogy-an-interview-with-dr-carol-azumah-dennis/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1] Dr Azumah is a Lecturer in Education at the Open University in London. She is an external examiner…
Challenging gentrification through legal aid and legal education training: an interview with Megan Chapman of JEI (Episode 9)
But the courage of people to really take that stand and take that step is something that we have to applaud and if more…
Challenging gentrification through legal aid and legal education training: an interview with Megan Chapman of JEI (Episode 9)
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/EdusoundsNg/challenging-gentrification-through-legal-aid-education-training-an-interview-with-megan-chapman/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1] Nigeria has a huge housing deficit, across the country it’s supposed to be 17 million units of…
Empowering communities through recycling: an Interview with Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, the recycling queen of Africa (Episode 8)
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/EdusoundsNg/empowering-communities-through-recycling-in-nigeria-bilikiss-adebiyi-abiola-episode-8/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1] You can read the transcript of the interview below or here Transcript Edusounds: Today, I am interviewing Mrs. Bilikiss…
Transcript of the interview with the CEO and Founder of Wecyclers, Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola (Episode 8)
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/EdusoundsNg/empowering-communities-through-recycling-in-nigeria-bilikiss-adebiyi-abiola-episode-8/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1] Edusounds: Today, I am interviewing Mrs. Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola, the CEO and co-founder of Wecyclers. She founded Wecyclers with…
How to engage children during the holidays
It’s that time of the year when children and young people that are still in formal education always look forward to – the end…
The shortage of medical doctors in Nigeria
This post is influenced by a Daily Trust video (YouTube) on the state of medical education in Nigeria, in which it was reported that only…
Accessing higher education in the era of tuition fees increment
Recently, thirty eight (38) higher institutions of learning in Nigeria increased their tuition fees and among them are three of the oldest universities in…
The Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter by Frank Furedi (Book review)
This is a review of Frank Furedi’s Power of Reading: From Socrates to Twitter . Frank Furedi is a sociologist and social commentator. He was formerly…
Beyond CAN and NERDC curriculum issues: the foreign curriculums phenomenon in Nigerian schools
Curriculum is ‘All the learning which is planned and guided by the school, whether it is carried on in groups or individually, inside or…
Intelligent designs: towards providing disabled inclusive medical care and facilities in Nigeria
This is a guest post by Habeeb Tunji Ololade, currently a Senior Physiotherapist with the Medical Rehabilitation Therapist (Registration) Board of Nigeria. He is…
Beyond sentiments: issues with the Bilingual education proposal by the Nigerian government
‘bilingual education’ refers to the use of two or more languages as mediums of instruction for ‘content’ subjects such as science or history. –…
Free education on a free fall in Nigeria
This is a guest post by Ola (@m_careca5) and was first published on my2kobos. Professor Benedicta Egbo is of the opinion that the numerous…
The perils of public education in Nigeria
This is a guest post by Ola (@m_careca5) and was first published on my2kobos. There is the universal acceptance of education as a form…
Between language, literacy and reading: the metaphor of the Nigerian parrot
Reading has transformed human consciousness and changed the world. Aside from serving as a powerful medium of communication and a source of pleasure, it…
The continued gentrification of Lagos in Nigeria
This is a guest post by Ola (@m_careca5) and was first published on my2kobos. Otodo Gbame: A community without ‘friends’ in high places The…
Whose voice? Between slavery, identity and gentrification in Cape Town – an interview with Sam North (Episode 7)
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/EdusoundsNg/whose-voice-between-slavery-identity-and-gentrification-in-cape-town-an-interview-with-sam-north/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1][/mixcloud] Sam North is an AHRC PhD Heritage Scholar at the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and…
As fate would have it: the story of the Nigerian Montane forest (Ngel Nyaki) – an interview with Dr Hazel Chapman (Episode 6)
The Nigerian Montane Project in Ngel Nyaki forest on the Mambilla Plateau empowers young people, this gives joy. – @AminaJMohammed (@UN Deputy Secretary-General, Former Minister of…
Public space as an institution of learning: an ethnographer’s social experience in Nigeria – Dr Insa Nolte (Episode 5, Part 3)
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/EdusoundsNg/public-space-as-an-institution-of-learning-an-interview-with-dr-insa-nolte/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1][/mixcloud] Dr Insa Nolte had her first degree from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, after which she joined the Centre of…
The importance of oral history: an interview with Dr Insa Nolte (Episode 5, Part2)
[mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/EdusoundsNg/the-importance-of-oral-history-an-interview-with-dr-insa-nolte-episode-5-part2/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1][/mixcloud] Dr Insa Nolte had her first degree from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, after which she joined the Centre of…