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Visualizing The Impact Of Insecurity On Teachers
With almost a decade teaching, Oseni Shukura earns N45,000 teaching 20 students. Now, she is forced to retire back to her house until it is safe to teach again. On Monday, 25th of July, students of Federal Government College, Kwali-Abuja, had to vacate the school after an order by the government to close the school…
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In Three Months, Nigerians Spend $221m On Foreign Education
Data obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria have shown that Nigerians spent at least $220.86 million on foreign education between December 2021 and February 2022. This is according to the CBN data on the amount spent on educational service under the sectoral utilisation for transactions valid for foreign exchange for December 2021 to February…
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Meal For Learning (3): Traders Struggle To Stock Their Shops As Prices Go Up
For Twentyten Daily, Taiwo Babatunde visited market places around tertiary institutions and spoke to traders on the increase in food prices and how it is affecting the growth of their businesses Ugwu Jullieth is a trader at Oye market in Ekiti where she sells rice, beans and other food items. This market is just 50…
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Meal For Learning (2): Market Prices Stiffen Cooking Process, Alternative For Students
For Twentyten Daily, Abdulsemiu Monsuroh highlighted how Nigerian students are finding it difficult to adjust to the increasing food prices despite having income from their sponsors (parents/guardians). For Kabirat Arowona, a part two undergraduate of Pasture and Range Management at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta(FUNAAB), cooking with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) has become…
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Meal For Learning (1): Nigerian Students Struggle With Increasing Food Prices
Despite the declining inflation rate in Nigeria, the persistent increase in food prices is affecting students in different tertiary institutions across Nigeria. Faith Omoniyi, for Twentyten Daily, spoke with several students who narrated their experiences studying in Nigeria’s unfavorable economic situation. Victor Awotubo, a student of english and literary studies in the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti,…
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FG To Increase Education Budget By 50% In Two Years
President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to increase the budget for the education sector by 50 percent over the next two years as part of a joint agreement among heads of state at the ongoing Global Education Summit in London. This was disclosed in a statement by his Special Adviser to the President on Media and…
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How Insecurity, Poverty Threaten Education In Nigeria
“I’ve never felt this much pain in my life — it’s unimaginable .At first, they were demanding 800 million naira from the families of the kidnapped students … then they started killing the students to show they were serious,” Ojotun, whose 18 year-old sister was among students kidnapped in Greenfield University, Kaduna, had explained. He…
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In Three Years, Thousands of NECO Candidates involve in Malpractices
Within the last three years, the National Examination Council has consistently recorded thousands of candidates involved in several forms of malpractice. While publishing the results of the 2020 Secondary School Certificate Examination, the council indicated that 33,470 candidates of 1.2 million candidates who wrote the exams were caught in different forms of malpractice. In 2019,…
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Insufficiency likely to Drive More Children out of School
The number of children abandoning their education despite several programmes initiated by the government to improve learning in Nigeria keeps rising yearly. Challenges including insecurity, development of schools and low budget allocations have been outlined as major factors contributing to this consistent increase. However, the figures are likely not to drop as economic indicators show…
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Poverty Alleviation: Unrealistic And Unproductive
The concept of poverty is that it hinders the development of a country. The world bank measures poverty in terms of daily spending of $1 to $2 per day per person. Previous administrations in Nigeria have continually made efforts to address the challenges of poverty through different programs and policies, some of them include National…