PHOTOS: School children involved in child labour
With a figure of 10.5 million, Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, according to UNICEF.
This may be underestimated as more children and parents are embracing informal education due to unemployment.…
INVESTIGATION: Inside Lagos school where pupils learn in inhuman conditions
(For six weeks, PREMIUM TIMES’ Oladeinde Olawoyin travelled to the riverine communities of Ese-ofin, Ojota and Egan-Oromi in Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State to monitor the conditions under which pupils of St. Phillips Anglican…
IN-DEPTH: Out of school children: Nigeria’s ticking time-bomb
Through the eyes of out of school children, this piece investigates the menace of out-of-school children in northern Nigeria looking at the looming socio-economic and security consequences of the challenge in Africa’s most populous nation.…
N76.12bn unaccessed UBEC fund stalls progress in basic education
TUNBOSUN OGUNDARE, who recently toured some public primary schools in Ondo State, which has the highest unaccessed funds lying dormant with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), reports on the consequences of the action on…
Cash transfer: How missing N534.5m denied 7,127 Katsina girls basic education
Amina Mohammadu, a peasant farmer is a mother of four from Daba town in Kaita Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina state. The mother has two girls who are of basic school age but are not in school as she can’t afford to support their…
Special Report X-ray Learning and Plight of Children with Disabilities
Despite being denied access to learning in an inclusive environment with their able bodied peers, children with disabilities may be difficult obtaining quality basic education considering the huge facility gap in the available special…
Students with Special Needs Desire Inclusive Education
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: Illegal disconnections, fleecing, monsters for DisCos’ customers
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…
Left out: How official policies force special needs children out of Nigerian classrooms
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…
17 years after, Ondo communities still without access to electricity
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…
“The Nigerian child is disadvantaged compared to global peers,” say Ezekwesili, Bobboyi, Kallon,…
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…