World book day.
Books are believed to be windows to worlds others before us have explored and deemed it fit to pass down their wealth of knowledge. The wealth of knowledge in books can turn lives around as in the case of the famous Ben Carson who despite being called a dummy for the first part of his […]
𝗛𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗜𝗻 𝗜𝗖𝗧 𝗗𝗮𝘆
International Girls in Information and Communications Technology Day 2020Today is International Girls in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Day. This day aims at promoting girls and young women’s access to information and communications technologies and encouraging them to pursue studies and careers in the growing field of ICT.
Nigeria: Gunmen Attack Private University in Kaduna, Abduct Students
Gunmen Tuesday night attacked Greenfield University, a private institution in Kaduna, and abducted some students. The incident was said to have occurred at about 8:15pm on Tuesday when the hoodlums invaded the school. The university, the only private university in the state, is located along the Kaduna- Abuja road, some kilometres away from Kaduna city. […]
WORLD IMMUNIZATION WEEK.
World Immunisation Week is marked every last week of April,it is used to promote the core message that immunisation of every child is vital to prevent diseases and protect life. The slogan Prevent. Protect. Immunize. carries this message across. Modern medicine has come a long way from days of herbs and powder to periods of immunization, […]
Martin Luther on Reformed Education.
Martin Luther preachings is sometimes forgotten that the Reformation was as much concerned with school as it was with church and home. Appreciating the role of education in directing church and society back to the source of the Christian faith, the reformers were committed to the schooling of the young. One of Martin Luther’s first […]
Healthy living for every person.
Fatiyah lives in the village of Lado with her only surviving relative aunt Nima, she had lost her family to varying health complications, her dad had developed a breathing problem after working at the town’s factory for 20years as a result of the fumes he inhaled while working at the production front. This led to […]
Swiss students can go back to university – partially
Face to face teaching – currently on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic – will soon be possible at universities following recent government approval. But there will be restrictions Calls had been mounting, most notably from the Swiss Student Union last week, for a return to campus after almost a year of online learning. The […]
VACCINES FOR COVID-19
Although Africa received the vaccines late, and in limited quantities alot of ground has been covered in that short time. More than 420,000 people in Ghana were vaccinated in just two weeks, this covers more than 60% of the target population. Vaxzevria (formerly COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca) is a vaccine for preventing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) […]
Nigeria: USAID Ensures Access to Education for Out-of-School Children’ in Northern Nigeria’
Mr. Nurudeen Lawal, the Chief of Party USAID Northern Education Initiative spoke to Funmi Ogundare and explained the various strategies used and how the agency had partnered with different stakeholders at the state and federal levels in the last five years. The objective is to provide basic literacy opportunities to out-of-school children especially in Sokoto […]
School drop out rates.
In a society, education plays a very important role in opening up vast opportunities for the individuals living within there, when the basic structures of acquiring knowledge is lacking, the society is in peril as there will be several problems cropping up from the lack of education such as: Extreme poverty: Members of the society lack basic […]