•Bandits Parents and relatives of the kidnapped pupils and teachers of the Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure-Ekiti, Ekiti State, have cried out for government to help in rescuing the victims being held hostage by gunmen. The gunmen had on Monday ambushed the school bus conveying the pupils and staff to Eporo-Ekiti, a suburb of […]...
•Tinubu As it is with many Nigerians, the economic pains occasioned by the petroleum subsidy removal and the tuition fee regime sweeping across tertiary institutions in the country have continued to create rumble among students and human rights advocacy groups. The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), the National Association of P...
•A school bus, photo for illustration purposes only An unspecified number of school children have been reportedly abducted by unknown gunmen in Emure Local Government of Ekiti State. Though the details are still very hazy, it was learned that the abducted children were said to be students of a yet- to-be disclosed school, reports Vanguard. [&h...
•Boat mishap At least 10 people, including nine children, drowned when a boat capsized Thursday in western India, officials said, with a search on to find more of the missing. The incident happened in Gujarat state as students were travelling to a picnic organised by their school, reports AFP. Dozens of people joined a frantic […]
•School feeding President Bola Tinubu has said that N100 billion is allocated for school feeding programmes in the recently signed N28.7 trillion 2024 budget. He made this statement yesterday, Monday, January 1, while signing the 2024 appropriation bill into law in the State House in Abuja, reports The Nation. Tinubu stated that the provision ...
•Tinubu Following its reintroduction today Thursday, December 21, President Bola Tinubu has directed that the school feeding programme be transferred from the Humanitarian Ministry to the Education Ministry. During a one-day workshop on incremental improvements in the middle ministerial targets between 2023 and 2027, Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Mi...
•School feeding programme in Osun Parents and residents of Osogbo were thrown into panic as 18 pupils from St. James Primary School B, Owo-Ope, were hospitalised due to food poisoning linked to the government’s free school feeding programme. It was gathered that pupils of the school developed complications after eating rice and egg prepared fo...
•Tinubu The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has vowed that it will fight against the increase in school fees across tertiary institutions. The NANS President, Lucky Emonefe made this vow at a stakeholders’ press conference in Abuja yesterday, when some student leaders, including the newly-elected NANS Senate President, Afeez Ak...
Four school children of the same parents have been deÂclared missing in Umuahia afÂter a tricycle rider, contracted to take them to school, took them to an unknown destination. The kids whose names were given as Mmesoma, Testimony, Godswill and Chinwotito, are the children of one Mr ChimoÂbi Agah, a resident of Umuagu, Umuahia, reports [&helli...
•School children Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Dr Betta Edu, to release details of how the sum of N535.8 million was expended on feeding of schoolchildren during COVID-19 lockdown. Justice Nkeonye Maha, in a judgment, directed the minister and t...
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