The rain had barely stopped when 62-year-old Mama Tokoni Ebidor waded through ankle deep water in front of her home in Biogbolo, one of the many low lying suburbs of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.  

The crumbling walls of County Grammar School, Ikwerre/Etche, once celebrated as Nigeria’s best public school may soon witness a new dawn of revival following a pledge by the Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area, Hon. Charles Wobodo, to partner with his Etche counterpart in a bid to restore the institution’s lost glory.

The controversy over the concession of King’s College, Lagos, to the King’s College Old Boys’ Association, KCOBA, by the Federal Government may be far from over, as parents and other stakeholders are mobilising for a mass protest against the move.

The school is designed to admit girls who dropped out of school due to early marriage, poverty, teenage pregnancy, displacement and so on

The trend is a direct opposite of the days where churches sponsor weddings, encouraging young adults to embrace early marriage.