The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has announced plans to stage a mass protest in Abuja on Wednesday, 2 July, over the prolonged closure of public primary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The protest, which will see students donning black in symbolic mourning for what they described as the “death of basic…
Unless urgent interventions by the administration of the Federal Capital Territory FCTA, to salvage an already bad situation, Nigeria will in no distant time make do with mediocrity for her future leaders, with yawning education gaps, and as children in the FCT face indefinite closure of their schools due to strike embarked by their teachers….
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has confirmed the conviction of a staff member of the Federal Ministry of Aviation for defrauding a job seeker with a fake employment offer. In a statement issued by Director of Public Enlightenment and Spokesperson for the Commission, Demola Bakare, on Sunday, the ICPC said…
A group has called on the federal government to provide clarity over recent conflicting claims by the Presidency and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) regarding the number of renovated Primary Health Centres (PHCs) across the country. MonITNG, a civic platform tracking public projects nationwide, on Saturday, said the figures released by the…
A study by the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience at Wits University has revealed that public health campaigns in Africa are failing to address the needs of people aged 50 and over living with HIV, despite their rapidly increasing numbers. Published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity, the research showed that the population of older…
The United Nations (UN), has said that the number of drug users worldwide has soared to a record 316 million, with the cocaine trade expanding at an alarming pace and fuelling a surge in violence across several regions, The World Drug Report 2025, published on Thursday by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)…
A civic technology group, MonITNG, has raised alarm over the deplorable state of the Primary Health Care Centre in Gbaka, Mbaatirkyaa Council Ward of Buruku Local Government Area, Benue State, describing it as a “lifeline that has completely collapsed.” In a statement following a recent inspection of the facility, MonITNG reported that the clinic, which…
…Rights Groups Kick NYSC’s Action A Nigerian corps member, Rita Ushie—known online as Raye—has had her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) year extended by two months after posting a viral TikTok video criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The move, which follows her March post describing Nigeria’s economic crisis and calling the Tinubu-led government “terrible”,…
A report by the World Bank has raised alarm over Nigeria’s deepening literacy crisis, revealing that the majority of school-age children across several regions are unable to write beyond their own names. According to the World Bank’s 2023/2024 Education Sector Report, released on Monday, an astonishing 90.1 per cent of children in the North-West and…
Outspoken social commentator and activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), took his protest against the ongoing primary school teachers’ strike to the gates of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration on Monday — staging an impromptu lesson for children denied access to education for over two months. Mr Otse, accompanied by a…
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