November 22, 2013

The DStv Eutelsat Star Awards, which are a product of a partnership between Eutelsat and MultiChoice Africa, aim to stimulate interest in science and technology and to inspire innovative thinking among secondary and high school students across the continent. The awards take the form of a competition open to 14-19 year-old students in 42 countries. Students are invited to […]

(By Mairo Danlami) A 12-year-old Yemeni child bride died after struggling to give birth for three days, a local human rights organisation said. Fawziya Abdullah Youssef died of severe bleeding on Friday while giving birth to a stillborn in the al-Zahra district hospital of Hodeida province, 140 miles west of the capital Sanaa. Child marriages

(By Mairo Danlami) Nokia in Partnership with Trace Urban, has announced the round 2 of the Don’t Break Da Beat rap competition. If you think you are a good rapper, even better than the King of Rap, ‘Modenine’ then enter for the competition and stand a chance to win $20,000. It’s simple…just visit the Nokia Nigeria Facebook

  There has been a marked rise of very good secondary schools all over the continent. Whilst government schools within African countries started off the best, following independence, much has changed. For the most part, private schools (we consider missionary school as private) outperform government schools. In addition, international schools have taken Africa by storm.

(By Dotun Onimole) Rising from a meeting with the Senate Committee on Education, the National Association of Nigeria University Students (NANUS) yesterday distanced itself from the ongoing dispute between tertiary unions and the federal government. The national student body, led by its national president, Peter Bassey Asuquo, insisted that the Academic Staff Union of Universities