Eleven-year-old Pearl Opara has a solution to the major challenges facing the country’s education sector. Speaking on the adverse effect of early child marriage on the future of the Nigerian child, Pearl tells Vanguard Learning: “We are children, not brides. Early child marriage is wrong; we must safeguard the future of the girl-child, and not deny her the experience of a good childhood. In this regard, our leaders must lead by example.”

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As the hope of undergraduates in public universities hangs in the balance, the Director of Research on African Environment and Development, University of Reading, United Kingdom, Professor Chukwumerije Okereke has urged the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to focus their attention more on reviving the mental intellectual decay in the sector.

The Director, PLEDGE51, a Lagos indigenous Mobile Development Company, Engr. Bayo Puddicombe has recently stressed the need to inculcate Robotics education, an aspect of technology that focuses on the design, construction, operation, and application of robots, into Nigerian school curriculum.

In its quest to make life meaningful to hopeless youths, no fewer than 47 out-of-school girls were empowered with different skills by Action Health Incorporated (AHI).

The Rivers State Ministry of Education has said that the study of French Language will provide the students in the state an opportunity to learn other foreign languages outside the English Language.