Challenges of New Senior Secondary School curriculum and implications for girl- child education
Minister of Education Rukayyatu Rufai By Jamila Nuhu Musa and Theodora Ekah The new Senior Secondary School Curriculum which was developed by the National Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) was proposed by the National Council on Education (NEC) to be implemented from September 2011. Going by this plan, the old curriculum will be phased More...
Widowed and evicted in Ivory Coast
By Tamasin Ford A woman in rural Ivory Coast has been called to a meeting under the shaded veranda of the local chief’s house to defend her right to inherit her husband’s property. Barely in her forties, she More...
Preventing accidents at construction sites
Union leaders’ should have proper documentation. We want employers and employees to make issues of safety and prevention of occupational accidents in the workplace part of the collective bargaining issues By Chinyere More...
Gombe kids will school here, not overseas – Dankwambo
From the look of Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe State Tuesday morning last week, one could see the rigours of office boldly written on his face. That day was also slated for a long executive council meeting More...
As JTF closes in on Boko Haram insurgents…
By Will Ross “It was like a military coup here two months ago when all the government officials ran away,” said a white-bearded elder in Kirenowa, as he described how his village in northern-eastern Nigeria More...
As JTF closes in on Boko Haram insurgents…
By Will Ross “It was like a military coup here two months ago when all the government officials ran away,” said a white-bearded elder in Kirenowa, as he described how his village in northern-eastern Nigeria More...
Constitution Amendment: Senate’s single term proposal sparks-off controversies
By Lawrence Olaoye The tortuous task of constitution amendment, which began at the inception of the seventh National Assembly, came to a climax last week when the Senate ad hoc committee chaired by the Deputy Senate More...
How Nigeria squanders millions on generators its foreign missions don’t need
By RuonaAgbroko-Meyer and Ini Ekott Defying logic, and objections from lawmakers, the Nigerian government has channelled nearly a quarter of a billion naira this year to fuelling and maintaining electricity generators More...
A book, a storm, and startling ‘Rot Within’
FCT Minister Senator Bala Mohammed By Sonde Abbah A few months ago a rather startling news emerged to the effect that the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Administration was broke. Not a few Nigerians were shocked. More...
Three years after, Jonathan yet to fulfil promises in power, oil and gas sectors
By Festus Owete In August 2010, barely four months after he succeeded his late boss, Umaru Yar’Adua, President Goodluck Jonathan launched the Road Map for Power Sector Reform in which he outlined his plans to More...
