Tag: girl child education
Outrage as UI secondary school forces students to remove hijab
Muslims organisations have expressed outrage over the alleged forceful removal of hijab from secondary school students of the University of Ibadan (UI) owned secondary...
Osinbajo makes case for girl child education
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday said the Federal Government was committed improving access to education for the girl child.
Osinbajo stated this while delivering...
‘We are all captives as long as Chibok girls are in...
On 14th April, 2014, some 219 school girls were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State. The Nigerian government was able to...
UPDATED: Delta suspends head teacher after Success’ viral video
The Delta State government has on Monday suspended the headmistress of Okotie-Eboh Primary School 1, Sapele Local Government of the state, Mrs Vero Igbigwe.
She...
VIDEO: Little girl flays school for sending her home over school...
A video of a little girl reacting after she was sent away from her school over her parent's inability to pay her school fees...
Stop discrimination, hijab is about success
Taking stock of the past year, our Hijab has had its undue share of pains in Nigeria. We have come under attack...
Sultan, others charge traditional leaders on keeping girls in school
The Sultan of Sokoto (Nigeria), His Eminence Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III, together with The Kabaka of Bugundu (Uganda), His Highness Ronald Edward Frederick Kimera...
LAUTECH secondary school shuts students out in hijab controversy
Some close to 50 female Muslim students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology International School (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso on Monday appeared in hijab, steering a...
Group advocates life skills education for girls
A Lagos- based social enterprise, Clarity School for Girls, has advocated the importance of teaching life skills to children. The group made this known...
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...