The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has said getting out-of-school children back into education poses a massive challenge.According to a report on its website, it stated that one in every five of the world’s out-of-school children is in Nigeria.It read, “Even though primary education is officially free and compulsory, about 10.5 million of the…
Property worth millions of naira were destroyed by rainstorm in some parts of Akure, the Ondo State capital and some other towns in the state.It was gathered that the rainstorm was caused by a downpour which occurred on Tuesday in the affected communities.This came some days after a similar incident happened in Ilara Mokin community…
After many months of rumours that a section of the political class was planning for an interim government in order to truncate the result of the recently-concluded general elections, the Department of State Services, DSS, formally confirmed yesterday that the plot was real.Spokesman for the DSS, Dr. Peter Afunanya, who disclosed this in a statement,…
A 26-year-old man, Agboola Adebayo, has been apprehended for allegedly defiling a nine-month-old baby, police in Lagos state have disclosed. According to the state police command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Wednesday, the case was reported to the Police on Monday at about 10:00 pm by a concerned member of the public….
The synergy of the federal and state governments, humanitarian societies, international agencies and non-government organisations through the Global Partnership for Education Accelerated Funding projects in the North-East is worthwhile. The thoughtful interventions followed critical situations vis-à-vis education of children in public schools resulting firstly from destroyed schools by bandits in the region coupled with other…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has charged religious leaders to practice integrity without compromise to encourage their followers against corrupt practices. The EFCC Zonal Commander, ACE II Bawa Hamidu Saidu, made this appeal in a statement by spokesman T. E. Nwosu in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on Sunday, March 26 at The Redeemed…
A woman, Annie Ofili, has allegedly stabbed her friend, Glory Okon, to death at her residence on the Greenville Estate, Badore, in the Ajah area of Lagos State. News Reporters gathered that on the day of the incident, Okon paid Ofili a visit at home. While the two of them were discussing at the suspect’s residence,…
As the federal government prepares to completely deregulate the downstream sector of the Nigerian oil and gas industry in the coming months, stakeholders in the sector have told Nigerians to be ready to pay as much as N750 per litre of petrol at filling stations. According to News Reports, this was the highpoint of stakeholders’…
