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Students with Special Needs Desire Inclusive Education

WSoyinkaCentre Jan 25, 2018

Students with special needs want an all inclusive Education instead of being separated from their able bodied peers. This was the findings of Radio Nigeria correspondent, who visited some of the schools for persons with special needs in…

Electricity

Electricity: Illegal disconnections, fleecing, monsters for DisCos’ customers

WSoyinkaCentre Jan 25, 2018

Pyakasa is a sprawling village in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). It’s about 12 kilometres from Abuja City Centre. An uphill area of about seven minutes’ drive from Lugbe town along Airport road, Pyakasa shares boundary with three…

Basic Education

Left out: How official policies force special needs children out of Nigerian classrooms

WSoyinkaCentre Jan 25, 2018

The Nigerian governments plan to give every child an education is hampered by poor monitoring, fund leakages and an overall lack of manpower. ABIOSE ADELAJA ADAMS visited nine basic schools in Lagos, Ogun and Oyo to study the situation of…

Electricity

17 years after, Ondo communities still without access to electricity

WSoyinkaCentre Jan 16, 2018

A vast number of rural communities in the country are unreached in terms of access to electricity supply despite huge sums of money expended by various levels of governments to bring supply to these communities. The reality of this is that…

Activities

“The Nigerian child is disadvantaged compared to global peers,” say Ezekwesili, Bobboyi, Kallon,…

WSoyinkaCentre Jul 14, 2017

Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, Executive Secretary Universal Basic Education, Hamid Bobboyi and United Nations, Humanitarian Coordinator/UNDP Resident Representative, Edward Kallon, along with other speakers, at the 2017…

Activities

Stakeholders raise red flag on basic education and electricity in Nigeria

WSoyinkaCentre Jul 8, 2017

Ahead of the 2017 Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series planned to examine the nexus between basic education and electricity on Thursday 13 July at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja, participants at a two-day stakeholders meeting held in Lagos on…

Activities

UBEC, NERC, Others To Focus On Nexus Between Basic Education And Electricity At Soyinka Lecture

WSoyinkaCentre Jun 16, 2017

Hamid Bobboyi, Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Anthony Akah, Former Acting Chairman, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Edward Kallon, United Nations, Humanitarian Coordinator/UNDP Resident…

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