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Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today, Malcolm X, the popular American Muslim minister and human rights activist once said. And in local parlance, the old saying rings true, that…

With 57 percent rate, Ebonyi state has the highest number of out of school children in the southeast. The state government in 2017 and 2018 allocated over N2 billion each to the Ministry of Education and the Ebonyi State Universal Basic…

Unfortunately, investigation by Sahara Reporters revealed that many of the inclusive school are not only physically inaccessible for the pupils but are also unknown to Lagos State residents.

Between December 2010 and May 2015, the Goodluck Jonathan administration embarked on the Almajiri Education Programme which saw to the construction and equipment of 157 Tsangaya (Almajiri) Model Schools across Nigeria. ABDUSSALAM AMOO…

When the President Goodluck Jonathan administration started the Almajiri Model School projects in 2010, it was to reduce the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria. The project resulted in the construction and equipment of 157 model…

We ate raw cassava inside bush for several days fleeing from herdsmen –Pupils In the last four years, a number of public schools in Agatu, Logo and Guma local government areas of Benue State have been brutally attacked by suspected…

Staying out of school has become normal for 13-year-old Adepoju Ibrahim. He considers learning vulcanizing as the best option having dropped out of school. Whenever kids in Ede town area of Osun State are going to school, Ibrahim moves to…

In the second part of this report, Nura Faggo reports on how public primary and junior secondary schools in Bauchi state buy basic instructional materials required for teaching and learning. The second segment also explores the condition of…

A four months investigation in public primary schools across 16 out of the 20 local government areas of Bauchi state has revealed unconducive learning environment characterized by overpopulated classes, near total absence of sitting…

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on Wednesday, 17 October 2018 welcomed eight undergraduates from three Nigerian universities for a two-month internship programme. The interns include Elizabeth Lawal from…

No fewer than eighteen photojournalists were trained on the art of visual storytelling at a workshop organised by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) on the 25th and 26th September in Lagos.The two-day training,…

As part of the Pro-Engage Campus edition of the Regulators Monitoring Programme (REMOP), the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism engaged students of Mass Communication from the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Bayero University…

Ibrahim Gambari, former Minister for External Affairs and erstwhile United Nations Under-Secretary General, has called for an end to what he calls, “the audacity of hypocrisy” of the Nigerian ruling class. The Nigerian scholar and diplomat,…