As Nigerian tertiary institutions continue to experience certain ills from their students, with most of these atrocities committed by what the majority described as underage, revisiting the eighteen years as the appropriate age for the entrance into tertiary institutions has been stated as one of the ways to correct these ills.

A lecturer, Doctor Falilat Okeshina, stated this in an interview with Dominion News, stating that with this, many societal ills that originated from tertiary institutions would be corrected, adding that most parents also have a role to play in setting a standard for their children and making sure they adhere to it, with or without their availability.

She, however, advised that the federal government should pay more attention to tertiary institutions as a way of contributing significantly to the educational sector.

The Federal Ministry of Education has published the full list of twenty-six trade areas approved under its revised technical-education curriculum.

According to a statement signed by the Ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Bon Folasade, the revised curriculum will convert all Federal Science and Technical Colleges to Federal Technical Colleges from the 2025/2026 academic year.

Students are required to take between nine and ten subjects (one core trade, five to six general subjects, two to three trade-related subjects, and one elective).

The ministry said the streamlining and modernisation of these trades responds to current industry demand across construction, energy, agriculture, automotive, creative media, and digital services sectors.

The reform also introduces Citizenship and Heritage Studies alongside core science and language subjects.

President Bola Tinubu will address the 80th Session of the high-level General Debate of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York.

A revised provisional list of speakers showed that Tinubu would be speaking on the second day of the event.

The high-level week will kick off on September 22nd and run through September 30th, during which world leaders will gather to attend the general debate and a series of conferences.

Nepali soldiers patrolled the streets of Kathmandu, seeking to restore order after protesters set parliament ablaze and forced the prime minister to quit in the worst violence to hit the Himalayan nation in two decades.

Protests had begun on Monday in the Nepali capital against the government’s ban on social media and over corruption, but escalated into an outpouring of rage nationwide, with government buildings set on fire after a deadly crackdown claimed at least nineteen lives.

The army warned that vandalism, looting, arson, or attacks on individuals and property in the name of protest will be treated as punishable crimes.

Ugandans have expressed support for the opening of the legal proceedings against the rebel leader Joseph Kony by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court began presenting evidence to support charges against fugitive Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony at the court’s first-ever in absentia hearing, alleging he inflicted horrors that still echo two decades later.

Kony is facing thirty-nine counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity as the fugitive leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA)which terrorized northern Uganda for decades.