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  The Borno State Government says it will start paying parents who enrol their children to acquire Western education, especially in the northern part of the state. Governor Kashim Shettima disclosed this on Sunday while interacting with some Bama elders at the GRA, Maiduguri. Shettima said this initiative was part of the government’s `Conditional Cash […]

 A few weeks ago, the #ChildNotBride scandal made headlines across the country attracting serious outrage from several quarters including several celebrities who learnt their voice in calling for the law to be expunged from the constitution. In view of the public outcry, chief proponent and de-factor face of the Child Bride law, Senator Ahmed Yerima

 A 14-year-old boy has been left with the body of a 110-year-old in India because he has a rare disease which makes him age eight times faster than normal. Ali Hussain has seen five of his siblings die from the same condition called Progeria which is known to affect just 80 people worldwide. Two of

  A panel of enquiry set up by the  Ogun State Government to probe the alleged mismanagement of  N200  million paid by the government for the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, fees, has submitted its report indicting some government officials of stealing N31 million. The panel, while presenting its report, yesterday, said that some officials of the

  An Abuja Magistrates’ court, yesterday, sentenced a teenager, Abdullahi Abba, 18, to 30 days in prison for criminal conspiracy and theft. The magistrate, Mr Zubairu Mohammed, who passed the sentence after Abba pleaded guilty to the offences, however, gave him an option of paying N3,000 fine. Mohammed said: “The court finds you guilty as

  (By Atiku Abubakar) My name is Atiku Abubakar. I wouldn’t be who I am today without education. I have always talked about how I attended school very much against the wish of my late father. My dad was actually sent to prison for barring his son from access to education. As my biography makes clear, I only

  A male teacher at a Catholic school was caught in a passionate embrace with a 16 year old schoolgirl. The pair were spotted ‘writhing’ on the floor of the school’s music room at the end of a parent-teacher evening. They were discovered when another teacher looked out of a staff room window and saw

  A scientist has discovered it is beneficial to be a glass-half-full person. Sophie Chou has found people who have a realistic sense of optimism are more likely to be happy and successful than people who are pessimistic or wildly optimistic. The psychology researcher believes realistic optimists’ positive outlook, combined with their rational perspective on

  Liberia’s education minister says she finds it hard to believe that not a single candidate passed this year’s university admission exam. Nearly 25,000 school-leavers failed the test for admission to the University of Liberia, one of two state-run universities. The students lacked enthusiasm and did not have a basic grasp of English, a university

  National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, plans to hold a nation-wide protest as a last resort to force the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the protracted strike of university lecturers. NANS’ President, Yinka Gbadebo, responding to allegations that the students’ body was not bothered by the 60-day-old