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(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

A harrowing video has been posted on online of an 11-year-old Yemeni girl who claims she ran away to escape an arranged marriage. Nada al-Ahdal says she was only saved from the forced engagement after her uncle intervened. ‘Go ahead and marry me off – I’ll kill myself,’ she warns in the video, dated July 8,

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) A civil engineering graduate from Abraka State University in Edo State, south-south Nigeria, who lost his job and was newly employed as a security guard in a private school at Ijegun area of Lagos State, south-west Nigeria, has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly raping a student of the school

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) The Oyo State Government on Monday reiterated its commitment to capacity building in science and mathematics education, in line with its aim of restoring the pacesetting status of the state in education. The state Commissioner for Education, Adetokunbo Fayokun, said this in an interview with journalists shortly after declaring open the

  (By NAN) The National Universities Commission (NUC) on Tuesday announced the accreditation of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Agriculture. The commission also announced the approval for Engineering courses for the University of Abuja. The Chairman of the Task Team on the accreditation of the College of Medicine and Visiting Professor to NUC, Eugene Okpere, made

  (By Dotun Onimole) The Ogun State Police Command has said it arrested a-45-year-old man, Toyin Sodimu, for allegedly raping his 16-year-old daughter. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement in Abeokuta, yesterday, said Sodimu who lives in Temidire community of Oke Apo, Akomoje, Abeokuta committed the offence on Saturday and 

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) Police in India have arrested the head teacher of a school where 23 children died after eating food contaminated with insecticide last week. Meena Kumari had been sought since the tragedy in eastern Bihar state. She handed herself in on Wednesday. Police believe she can help explain how the deadly insecticide