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State govts failed to access N86b UBEC grants
DESPITE complaints of paucity of funds to manage the nation’s education sector, a whopping N86billion matching…
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Ezekwesili faults ICIR’s fact check on her out-of-school children’s claim
OBY Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) has faulted The ICIR’s fact…
FACT CHECK: Oby Ezekwesili’s claim on out-of-school children is inaccurate
OBY Ezekwesili, the presidential candidate of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) says that from the year 2000…
Nigeria out-of-school children population increases to 13.2m- UBEC
THE population of out-of-school children in Nigeria has increased from 10.5million to 13.2million, the Universal Basic…
Group to monitor spending of World Bank’s $611m grant for Nigeria’s out-of-school…
A civil society organisation, Connected Development (CODE) says it will monitor the spending of the $611 million (N221…
When parents are given money in Sokoto State, they let girls go to school
NO girl has ever transited to secondary school in more than 40 years history of Mazangari Primary School in Bodinga,…
SPECIAL REPORT: When girls are singled out, boys lose out in school
EVIDENCE has shown that when parents are specifically empowered to send girls to school, they gain an advantage…
TIME BOMB: Nigeria’s huge out-of-school population could wreck the north
Through the eyes of out-of-school children, this piece investigates the menace of northern children of school age…
PHOTOS: Nigeria’s out-of-school children who are now scavengers, sachet water…
By Ademola AKINLABI
In July, Adamu Hussaini, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, acknowledged that the…
SHOCKER: The model school in Kebbi State where pupils learn in the sun
By all standards, Tarasa Model Primary School, Tarasa Village in Birnin-Kebbi Local Government, Kebbi State, does…