Tag: child education
Kano govt to arrest, prosecute parents of children not in school
Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje has vowed that his government would arrest and prosecute parents who fail to send their children to school in...
‘Sexuality education essential part of good quality education’
A new policy paper jointly produced by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Global Education Monitoring Report...
Let your children play
While we were home yesterday, one of the major things we did with the children was PLAY outside.
Playdates are ways we connect with our...
NGO to kit-up 200 children in 2019
A non-governmental organisation, The Helpmates
Foundation (THF) said it would kit-up 200 school children in 2019.
It revealed this on...
Success Adegor: SERAP sues Okowa over ‘substandard primary schools’
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit asking the Federal High Court to: “compel governor Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa of Delta...
Almajiri child rights vital to achieving SDGs – Group
A child rights group, Almajiri Child Rights Initiative (ACRI) has stated that protecting the rights of the Almajiri is vital to achieving the Sustainable...
Childhood education as middle class child abuse in Nigeria
The Nigerian Middle class is a brittle collectivity of people; brittle because it is insecure and unmoored to any abiding institutions and because its...
We are prioritising child education through school feeding programme – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed commitment towards prioritising child education in Nigeria especially through the school feeding programme.
How Nigeria’s out-of-school children increased to 13.2 million
The number of out-of-school children rose from 10.5 million in 2010 to 13.2 million in 2015, a Demographic Health Survey (DHS) conducted by the...
No time to lose on the road to Universal Primary and...
The latest figures on out-of-school-children are disappointing, showing progress that is – at best – painfully slow.
Despite every promise and declaration, and all the...