Tag: innovations
How Kaduna increased school enrolment by 91% in two years –...
Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai has revealed how his government's efforts in the education sector led to the increase in school enrolment by 90....
How community library is serving an under-served Lagos community
Lagos State is Nigeria’s commercial capital with about 20 million residents. With not more than thirteen government-owned libraries and very few privately-owned...
Nigerian professor wins award over cancer research breakthrough
A Nigerian professor, Isa Marte Husseini, has won the International Institute for Training, Research and Economic Development (IITRED) Research Award for his research breakthrough...
How Empatico is closing the gap between classrooms in Nigeria and...
Empatico is a free video conferencing tool that connects classrooms of children aged 7-11 across the world, all in a bid to make the...
Olutoye charges Nigerians to create environment for innovative discovery
A Professor of Surgery, Paediatrics and Obstetrics at the Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA, Oluyinka Olutoye has charged Nigerians...
TechGen Challenge: Rewarding technological innovation among school pupils
The TechGen Challenge may have come and gone but the indelible mark it leaves in the minds of participants from primary and secondary schools...
Superior curriculum: The unnecessary battle in Nigeria
It seems the battle for the superior curriculum in our schools will not wane. You see schools in Nigeria brandishing their usage of British/American...
D-Prize Innovation Challenge for Poverty Intervention in Developing Countries 2018
The world has already invented ways to end poverty, yet the best interventions are not being distributed at mass-scale. Can you design a business...
Trends in educating preschoolers
2 to 5 year olds can be a very challenging age group to manage for parents as well as teachers. In education, these age...
Reviving the Missing Innovators in Children
Shreyansh Shrivastava identifies how teachers can help develop the innovators among the school children they teach through particular strategies.
Innovation is the application of the...