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Oyo Teachers Launch Indefinite Strike Over Kidnappings Teachers protesting and demanding the release of abducted colleagues and schoolchildren in Oyo State.

Teachers protesting and demanding the release of abducted colleagues and schoolchildren in Oyo State.

Oyo Teachers Launch Indefinite Strike Over Kidnappings

Korede Abdullah June 1, 2026

IBADAN, Nigeria – Public school teachers in Oyo State have commenced an indefinite strike following the continued...

Children Face Abuse, Poverty, Neglect Despite Protection Laws – Expert Warns Nigerian children during Children’s Day activities highlighting child rights advocacy

Nigerian children during Children’s Day activities highlighting child rights advocacy

Children Face Abuse, Poverty, Neglect Despite Protection Laws – Expert Warns

Korede Abdullah May 27, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – A child rights advocate has called for stricter enforcement of Nigeria’s Child’s Rights Act...

UNICEF, EU Launch €1m Lifeline to Rescue 20,000 Conflict-Hit Children in Sokoto UNICEF officials and Faji residents at NTD town hall in Osun

UNICEF, EU Launch €1m Lifeline to Rescue 20,000 Conflict-Hit Children in Sokoto

Hussaini Ibrahim May 1, 2026

SOKOTO, Nigeria – Thousands of conflict-affected children in northwestern Nigeria are set to return to classrooms following...

FCT Urges Teachers to End Strike as Exams Begin Nationwide Aerial view of Abuja city districts showing residential and commercial buildings.

FCT Urges Teachers to End Strike as Exams Begin Nationwide

Mirian Gom April 20, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Federal Capital Territory Administration urges the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) to suspend...

SSANU Threatens Nationwide Strike If Talks with Government Collapse SSANU and NASU

SSANU Threatens Nationwide Strike If Talks with Government Collapse

Hussaini Ibrahim April 19, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) warns of imminent industrial action if...

UTME Glitches Spark Outrage as JAMB Promises Resit for Candidates Candidates waiting at CBT centre during UTME disruption in Abuja

UTME Glitches Spark Outrage as JAMB Promises Resit for Candidates

Mirian Gom April 17, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – As the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) enters its second day, the Joint...

OAU Students Boycott Classes Over Campus Transport Crisis Students protesting transport challenges at OAU

OAU Students Boycott Classes Over Campus Transport Crisis

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius April 13, 2026

ILE-IFE, Nigeria – Students of Obafemi Awolowo University announce a 72-hour lecture boycott over worsening transport challenges...

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North UNICEF officials and Faji residents at NTD town hall in Osun

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North

Hussaini Ibrahim February 12, 2026

KANO, Nigeria – The United Nations Children’s Fund warns that millions of children in Northern Nigeria remain...

Streets Instead of Schoolyards: How Nigeria’s Poverty Trap Is Stealing Childhoods, Endangering Public Health Child hawker navigating traffic in Abuja street

Child hawker navigating traffic in Abuja street

Streets Instead of Schoolyards: How Nigeria’s Poverty Trap Is Stealing Childhoods, Endangering Public Health

Edino Chubiyo Cornelius December 15, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – On the scorching asphalt of Nigeria’s capital, childhood begins not with school bells or...

Zamfara Defies Kidnap Surge, Keeps Schools Open Under Tight Security Governor Dauda Lawal inaugurating digital training session in Gusau

Zamfara Defies Kidnap Surge, Keeps Schools Open Under Tight Security

Oluwafunbi Bello November 25, 2025

Zamfara, Nigeria – Zamfara State is keeping its schools open despite a surge in student abductions across...

Education Crisis

Oyo Teachers Launch Indefinite Strike Over Kidnappings

Children Face Abuse, Poverty, Neglect Despite Protection Laws – Expert Warns

UNICEF, EU Launch €1m Lifeline to Rescue 20,000 Conflict-Hit Children in Sokoto

FCT Urges Teachers to End Strike as Exams Begin Nationwide

SSANU Threatens Nationwide Strike If Talks with Government Collapse

UTME Glitches Spark Outrage as JAMB Promises Resit for Candidates

OAU Students Boycott Classes Over Campus Transport Crisis

UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Out-of-School Children in North

Zamfara Defies Kidnap Surge, Keeps Schools Open Under Tight Security

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