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While I do not have a direct experience of most of the challenges facing the #Almajiranci education system in Nigeria, I have some suggestions on how…
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Listening to the sonorous melodies from chirping birds around me in my normal walkway to and from work. There’s a joy in witnessing the…
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Finally, the federal government announced that they would be introducing the use of native Nigerian languages in the delivery of Maths and Science education….
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I once wrote about how sports helped me in developing reading habit. I can still remember turning my used school notebooks at the end…
At first it was a rumour, then it became humour, then a subject of denial until the video clip of the confessional statement of…
The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, while hosting the governor of Niger state at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Education was…
In an attempt to reduce youth unemployment and restiveness, the Secretary to the Federal Government (SGF) of Nigeria, Mr Boss Mustapha, suggested to the…
This post is based on a WhatsApp Q&A session I had recently with a group of friends. The responses are informed sometimes by research…
A new report released on January 8, 2017 by the International Literacy Association (ILA) reveals wide gaps between what’s truly valuable (what’s important) to…
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Dr Morosetti is a tutor in African Literature and a fixed-term affiliate to the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, where she runs an…
While I was doing an online research on the framework for teaching standards in Nigeria, I stumbled on the digitisation project of the National…
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. In “On…
There’s a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them. ― Jo Walton On December 25th…
It all started with a random amateur video shared via a social media platform. As I clicked on the video and started watching it,…
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