Books

The crisis created in the education systems globally as a result of the emergence of COVID-19 pandemic, which led to the closure of schools in more than 190 countries all over the world with nearly 1.6 billion learners affected according to UNESCO (2020), necessitated the advocacy for re-engineering in the education sector globally. The theme of this book, Education Reengineering in the New Normal World, emanated from this advocacy. There is no other time that this book is most needed than now. This perhaps informed the reason why many scholars, from different backgrounds in the education industry, responded with quality papers in line with the theme.

The book, Human and Social Development Investments: Festschrift for Professor Mathew Oladepo Akintayo is for the celebration of Life of an astute and erudite scholar per excellence, a very distinguished, respectable and highly reserved teacher and mentor. It is a way of celebrating and rejoicing with our teacher and mentor as he joins the septuagenarian club, and retires gallantly from the university system after 35 years of meritorious secure to humanity. We all have reasons to celebrate with our ‘super hero’ for making it to the top of the academic and ending it gloriously with significant landmarks.

This book brings together vast arrays of contributors who examined issues relating to human and social investments in Nigeria (and beyond). This is with a view to provide better understanding of what constitute human and social investments, and the challenges associated with such investment.