The Administrator, Grace Schools, Lagos,
Mrs. Olatokunbo Edun, has called on privileged members of the society
to sponsor indigent but brilliant pupils to enable them achieve their
dreams.
Edun said this recently while presenting scholarship awards to two indigent pupils of the school.
While noting that the award was
instituted in honour of the late founder of the school, Mrs. Grace
Oshinowo, Edun added that it had become an annual event to support poor
pupils to enable them have access...
Friday, 4 September 2015
04:49
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The United Nations Children’s Fund has
decried the unrelenting deaths of migrant children and their parents as
they attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean in their bid to enter Europe at
all costs.
UNICEF works for children’s rights, survival, development and protection.
In reaction to the image of
three-year-old Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian child-migrant whose dead body was
washed up a beach in Turkey, the UNICEF Executive Director, Mr. Anthony
Lake, said, “Heart-breaking images of children’s...
04:27
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The National Deaf Teachers Association
has said it is wrong to set the same academic standards for pupils
without disability and their deaf and hard-of-hearing counterparts,
calling it “misplaced expectations.”
The Chairman, Local Organising
Committee, Dr. Tola Odusanya, said this at the inaugural conference of
the association in Oyo on Thursday, with the theme, “Deaf children’s
education today: Creating a shared vision for deaf teachers.
Odusanya said setting the same academic
standards...
04:26
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A professor of Guidance and Counseling
at the Delta State University, Okobiah Otete, has called on the Federal
Government to encourage teachers in public schools to undergo in-service
training.
She said it would help to mould teachers’ attitude to work and enhance the development of the teaching profession in Nigeria.
Otete spoke at the 2015 Great Teachers Conference, organised by Jes’s Lord International Services Limited in Lagos recently.
The conference was held at the Home Science School,...
04:24
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The Executive Director, New Generation
Change Education Foundation, Dr. Sheri Ajasin, has advised pupils to
align themselves to moral values and national ethics as enshrined in the
constitution.
Ajasin said this during an interview
with our correspondent on Thursday. According to her, it is imperative
to engender a positive attitudinal change by observing the seven
national ethics of Section 23 of the 1999 Constitution, using drama as a
tool.
She noted that these core values include
...
04:20
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A non-government organisation, Save Our
Needy, has donated learning materials and renovated some classrooms of
the Progress Nursery and Primary School, Festac Town, Lagos.
According to the NGO’s Chief Executive
Officer, Marvella Odili, the intervention was to make the learning
environment conducive for pupils who are from poor homes, adding that
the gesture was also to commemorate the inauguration of the first phase
of its ‘Better Life Through Education’ programme.
Presenting materials...
04:14
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Community Senior Grammar School | credits: Folashade Adebayo
Parents
who have had to pay unauthorised levies to the management of some
public schools in Lagos have cried out to the state government for
intervention.
The parents, who are alleging that
principals of the affected schools forced them to pay N1,500 before they
could collect the report cards of their children, are asking the...
04:11
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United Global Resources Limited, a
partner of Microsoft, has said no less than 128 pupils have benefited
from its certificate programmes in five years.
Centre Manager for UGRL, Mr. Odion
Oyakhire, said it was an annual programme that provides information
technology skills to primary and secondary school pupils.
“Within two or three weeks, 31 pupils
wrote the exams. Twelve of the 31 got certified as Microsoft Office
Specialists for Office Excel 2010, while 19 got certified as Microsoft...
04:09
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Some of the country’s leading child
safety experts have demanded that a subject which teaches children about
sexual abuse and relationships becomes mandatory.
Leading child safety experts have called
for a subject that educates children on issues such as sexual
exploitation and abuse to become mandatory in schools.
The demands come a year after reports
confirmed that more than 1,400 children were sexually exploited by gangs
in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
In order to help raise awareness...
04:08
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Survey finds that majority of parents believe that young children should not own smartphones
Children under the age of ten should not
be allowed to own a smartphone, a majority of parents believe,
according to a new survey
Internet Matters, a non-for-profit
organisation working to keep the internet safe, found that 85 per cent
of parents of primary school children want an age requirement enforced.
Currently, as many as 65 per cent of children aged between eight and 11 years old own a smartphone.
Newcastle...
04:06
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A school which has only taught boys for more than 500 years has opened its doors to girls for the first time.
Nottingham High School welcomed 41 girls in the sixth form as the new term started on Thursday.
The school, which taught writer DH
Lawrence, Jesse Boot of Boots fame, and politicians including Ed Balls
and Ken Clarke, had only accepted male pupils since it was founded in
1513.
There was also be a mixed intake of pupils in reception, year one and two.
Lucy Stansfield, 16, of Newark,...
04:02
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Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Tukur Buratai
The
Nigerian Army has recalled 3,032 soldiers who were summarily dismissed
from the service last year for alleged offences in relation to the
defunct Operation Zaman Lafiya.
The Acting Director, Army Public
Relations, Col. Sani Usman, said during a briefing in Abuja on Thursday
that the 3, 032 soldiers were among 5,000 dismissed soldiers...
04:00
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Murtala Muhammed International Airport
An
airport cleaner has been arrested with the sum of $271,135 (about N53m)
at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, it has been
learnt.
The suspect was arrested by the aviation
security personnel of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria while
trying to carry the huge sum of money through the screening point.
The airport worker,...
03:59
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Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase | credits: http://www.thescoopng.com
The
Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has directed that all
police commands and formations should immediately stop the use of
commercial vehicles and those painted in states’ commercial colours for
police operations and patrol duties.
The directive was contained in a circular issued to all...
03:58
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike
Hearing
of the main petition filed by the All Progressives Congress and its
governorship candidate in the April 11, 2015 election in Rivers State,
Dakuku Peterside, challenging the election of Governor Nyesom Wike of
the Peoples Democratic Party, began on Thursday.
The APC and Peterside called their first
set of witnesses to testify before the Rivers...
03:56
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Guatemala’s congress has sworn in a former judge as president while
his predecessor has appeared in court over corruption allegations just
hours after resigning.
Alejandro Maldonado, a 79-year-old conservative who only became vice
president in May, will serve out the rest of Otto Perez Molina’s term,
handing over on January 14.
Separately on Thursday, a judge – citing a flight risk – ordered
Perez to be held in prison while hearings over his alleged role in a
customs-corruption scandal...
03:56
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The Bayern Munich football club will donate $1.11m to help refugees
and set up a training camp for those arriving in Munich, as the number
of people arriving in the city continues to rise.
Thousands have crossed into Germany via Hungary and Austria with Munich’s train station one of the main points of entry.
The plight of those fleeing conflict in their countries such as
Syria, as well as...
03:52
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The Islamic State group has blown up three tower tombs in the
ancient Syrian city of Palmyra that were built between the years 44 and
103 AD, the country’s antiquities chief Maamoun Abdulkarim said on
Friday.
Abdulkarim told Reuters that sources in Palmyra had confirmed the
destruction of three tombs including that of Elahbel, built in 103 AD,
which he said was four storeys high and had an underground floor.
IS group militants have blown up two other temples over the past few weeks...
03:50
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The father of a three-year-old Syrian boy whose body was washed up on
a Turkish beach in an image that shocked the world returned to his
hometown Kobane on Friday to bury his family, an AFP photographer reported.
Abdullah Kurdi arrived at the Turkish border town of Suruc with the
funeral caskets of his son and other family members who also drowned
while trying to get to Europe, and headed towards the flashpoint Syrian
town with family members and Turkish security forces.
The long convoy...
03:48
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Buba Marwa
A
former military administrator of Lagos State, Maj. Gen. Mohammed Buba
Marwa (retd.), has hailed the appointment of Babachir David Lawal as the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation.
A statement issued on Thursday by his
media aide, Bello Zubairu, said Lawal’s appointment by President
Muhammadu Buhari “is not only a plus to his tribe or state or the North
but the country...
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