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UK moves to end early GCSE teaching in Year 7–9 shake-up

UK moves to end early GCSE teaching in Year 7–9 shake-up

The UK government plans to stop secondary schools from routinely teaching the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) content before Year 10, as part of a curriculum overhaul aimed at making the first three years of secondary school more engaging.
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Inside Ghana’s community with no female junior high school graduate for 25 years

Inside Ghana’s community with no female junior high school graduate for 25 years

A community in Ghana has been unable to produce a female high school graduate for more than two decades. This was as a result of forced child marriage practice in the area according to Madam Annacleta Viiru, the Upper West Regional Girls’ Education Officer at the Ghana Education Service (GES). Relating the female educational state […]

Cancer patient wins $200,000 lottery prize on way to last chemotherapy treatment

Cancer patient wins $200,000 lottery prize on way to last chemotherapy treatment

Ronnie Foster, an American seems would be having more than a second chance at life after he won a lottery prize of $200,000 (N72.3 million) on his way to the clinic for his last chemotherapy treatment. Foster, a colon cancer patient was reported to have stopped at a Food Mart in Beulaville, United States (US) […]

Here’s how U.S. forces tracked down, killed ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi

Here’s how U.S. forces tracked down, killed ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi

For all the attention, invention and investment that the U.S. intelligence community devotes to spy satellites, communications intercepts, and new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the raid that killed ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi were launched by the same old-fashioned tool that led to Osama bin Laden: human intelligence. TIME reports that after years of […]

Trump confirms killing of Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Trump confirms killing of Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

United States President Donald Trump has confirmed the killing of fugitive Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. special forces in a raid in northwest Syria. Speaking to newsmen at the White House on Sunday morning, Trump said Baghdadi killed himself by detonating his suicide vest during the operation on Saturday night. According to […]