Nigeria: Ondo Varsity Students to Pay N2.245 Million As Tuition Fees
The Ondo State Governor, Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has been receiving knocks over the recent increase of the tuition fee of the state-owned University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo, which required non-indigenes and indigenes studying dentistry in the institution in the preclinical years to pay N2.245 million and N1.320 respectively. In a new schedule released […]
From passion to impact:
It’s pretty easy for a person to reach their elastic limit and not be able to stretch their mind and body to do more, but as volunteers and humanitarians, it’s inevitable that we will go beyond our elastic limit to continue the good work we’ve already started. What drives us, you ask? As a non-governmental […]
CYBERBULLYING: What you should know.
Hate speech and spreading rumours are among the most effective ways to destroy a person’s self-esteem. Studies show that a percentage of suicides are due to cyberbullying, where the person involved is overwhelmed by the hate speech and threats and decides to silence it all by dying. In most cases, these bullies use digital technologies […]
Raising awareness of causes.
Raising awareness is the process of informing or educating people about a pressing issue or something you care about. The goal of raising awareness about an issue is to draw attention to it and gain emotional support for the cause; in other cases, it is to correct a prejudice or biased opinion. Awareness-raising is one […]
THE MENACE OF RISING SECURITY CHALLENGES ON EDUCATION IN NIGERIA.
In Nigeria, students have been risking their lives for an education. Like in most parts of the world, schooling comes with its fair share of challenges but when students risk losing their freedom or lives at school, our tomorrow is under attack. Where going to school is tantamount to charging into battle amid a swarm […]
RIPPLE EFFECT OF KINDNESS
Just as the saying goes that small drops of water soon fill an ocean, so too do small acts of kindness have a ripple effect. From the coins you drop into a beggar’s plate on your way to work, to the helping hands you extend to strangers, to the donations you make to your local […]
Nigeria: Visually impaired teacher gets automatic tenure in Kano after 7 years of volunteer service.
Dahuru Abdulhamid, a visually impaired teacher in Kano State, has received automatic employment as a teacher from the state government after seven years of volunteer service. Abdulhamid offered to volunteer to teach at a community school in his area, where he teaches English and government. Kano State Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje offered him automatic employment […]
October 22 is International Stuttering Awareness Day.
This day is intended to draw attention to the problems of people who suffer from this speech disorder. It commemorates the millions of people around the world who live with this particular speech disorder and highlights ways to make their lives easier by educating families and friends on how to better manage their speech disorder […]
A FUTURE FOR EVERY CHILD
Life has never been fair to Jane. Losing her parents just a few months after her birth was a terrible fate, and so as a child, she knew only the four walls of the orphanage where she grew up. It had been her home since birth, and now that she was 18, she had to […]
Revise marriage law to allow girls to study.
The government deserves praise for funding and promoting free education in the country, which in turn has increased the number of children going to school and the number of vulnerable and disabled children. HakiElimu Executive Director John Kalage said in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday on the occasion of the International Day of the Girl […]