The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors was founded in 1969 by a group of Nigerians who trained, qualified and practiced in the United Kingdom but who upon returning to Nigeria sensed the urgent need to develop the profession of Quantity Surveying in Nigeria by establishing a parallel body to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors […]
Before western education started in Nigeria, Nigerian children were exposed to informal form of education. The society and families in which these children grew up gave them education on ethics and other things. Things started changing when the Europeans, especially from Great Britain, started trooping into Nigeria in search of lands to conquer. This started […]
See History Of Nigeria Education Below…. Western or formal education was started in Nigeria in 1842 — only at the primary level — by the Christian missionaries who managed the educational system according to their respective philosophies. The missionary organizations available then were the Chord missionary society, the Wesleyan Methodist, and the Catholic. Secondary education was […]
See Below The History Of Nigeria Library The national library of nigeria came into existence by the national library act passed in september, 1964. This act was later replaced and substituted with the national library decree no 29 of 1970. It is a grade “a” parastatal and the apex library in the country. It is the […]
The Nigerian University Games Association (NUGA) organizes university-level sports events in Nigeria. It hosts interuniversity sports competition called the University Games. The first NUGA games were held at the University of Ibadan in 1966. 36 Nigerian universities are members. NUGA approves fifteen different sporting events at the University Games: track and field, badminton, basketball, chess, […]
University education in Nigeria from the beginning seemed to be a mirage for Nigerians,with lack of interest demonstrated by the Christian Missionaries who first started giving education and subsequent involvement of the colonial government who equally neglected the provision of higher education to Nigeria; for the fear of their authority being questioned when Nigerians are […]
The numeric system represented by Roman numerals originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet. Roman numerals, as used today, are based on seven symbols: I – 1 V […]