An indication was given, most recently by the President of ASUU (as reported in the mass media), that the FGN indicated its desire to launch a loan scheme for students of higher educational institutions in the country; such that they'll be able to afford a new regime of tuition fees, which their schools may begin to charge. Both loan, and tuition fees were to be in the range of one million Naira. It was further reported that the ASUU leadership promptly rejected this proposal, which obviously, it considered elitist and not in sync with the Union's ideological predilections. Unfortunately, there…

For decades, spectacularly inaccurate forecasts have underestimated the potential of clean energy, buying time for the fossil-fuel industry. But as two new analyses from authoritative institutions show, renewables have already convinced the market and are now poised for exponential growth. For decades, we at the Rocky Mountain Institute (now RMI) have argued that the transition to clean energy will cost less and proceed faster than governments, firms, and many analysts expect. In recent years, this outlook has been fully vindicated: costs of renewables have consistently fallen faster than expected, while deployment has proceeded more rapidly than predicted, thereby reducing costs…