Maiadu’a LEA in Katsina to get 9,000 children into primary school
The Maiadu’a Local Education Authority (LEA) in Katsina State, says it is targeting to enrol up to 9,000 children into primary school for the 2019/2020 academic session. The Education Secretary of the area, Alhaji Usman Maiadu’a, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiadu’a on Wednesday. He said […]
Khashoggi memorial to be held outside Saudi consulate where he died
Jamal Khashoggi’s friends, rights activists and press freedom groups will hold a memorial in Istanbul on Wednesday outside Riyadh’s consulate, where the Saudi journalist was murdered.
Donald Trump ‘suggested shooting migrants in the legs’
United States President Donald Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs to slow them down, according to a new book. The book, by two New York Times journalists, says Mr Trump suggested extreme methods of deterring migrants from crossing the southern border, according to BBC report. They included building an electrified, spiked border wall and […]
191 human trafficking cases exposed across Myanmar in 9 months
Myanmar police say it has exposed a total of 191 human trafficking cases across the country in the first nine months of 2019. This was according to figures released by the Anti-Trafficking Police Force on Wednesday. It said that from January to September 2019, 556 traffickers were charged in connection with the cases and 279 […]
Security beefed up in Kano ahead of tribunal’s judgment
Security has been beefed up in Kano metropolis ahead of the Judgment to be delivered by the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal on Wednesday. The tribunal had on Monday, Sept. 30, set aside Wednesday, Oct. 2, for the judgment on the petition filed by the PDP and its gubernatorial candidate against Gov. Abdullahi […]
Providing quality education is a major priority — Sanwo-Olu
Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has said that the provision of qualitative education was a major priority of his administration. Speaking on Tuesday at The Platform, an annual forum organised by the Christian Covenant Centre, Iganmu, Lagos, Sanwo-Olu said the state was retraining of teachers to improve on the quality of their output. […]
