Dr Ahmed Apatira, Chairman, Itire-Ikate Local Council Development Area (LCDA), in Lagos State, says the council’s free feeding programme for public primary schools will foster academic excellence. Apatira, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos, said the programme was geared toward nurturing and supporting the development of young minds….
President Bola Tinubu has sent condolences to parents, guardians and families who lost loved ones in a fire outbreak that stretched into an Islamic school in Kaura Namoda, Zamfara, on Tuesday night. The president commiserated with the state government and owners of the school, and prayed for the quick recovery of those receiving medical attention,…
The Zamfara Fire Service has confirmed the death of 17 Aljmajiri pupils in a fire incident that also left 16 others injured at Kaura Namoda Local Government Area of the state. The Executive Secretary of the State Fire Service Board, Bello Sani, said the fire started at midnight on Wednesday. He explained that the blaze…
A former member of the House of Representatives from Sokoto State, Dr Balarabe Shehu-Kakale, says the Federal Government is fully committed to the reduction of the high number of out-of-school children in Nigeria. Shehu-Kakale in a statement on Monday in Kaduna, said there were approximately 10.5 million children in Nigeria who are not in school,…
More than 15 million children in Sudan are out of school due to the country’s ongoing conflict, the National Council for Child Welfare said. “We have more than 15 million children out of school,” said Abdul Qadir Abdullah Abu, the council’s secretary-general, at a press conference. Abu accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of…
Classes have been suspended and roads waterlogged in some cities and counties in south China’s island province of Hainan due to heavy rainfall which started on Monday. Local authorities said the rain was induced by a combination of the remnants of Typhoon Trami and cold air. In the city of Sanya, many roads in the…
The death toll from a school bus fire in Thailand has risen to at least 23, local media reported on Wednesday. 38 pupils aged between six and 15 and six teachers were on their way from Uthan Thani province to Bangkok, 200 kilometres south-east of the Thai capital. The blast occurred on the bus about…
At least 12 people were killed and dozens more injured in an Israeli attack on a school building in Gaza City, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported Tuesday. Meanwhile, the target of the bombardment was a school building housing displaced people, “the report said. The Israeli army stated that the Palestinian militant organisation Hamas had…
