At a two-day Media Dialogue to Promote Equity in Education for Children, which held in Kano on October 29 and 30, the United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) focused emphasis on out-of-school children who it said numbered about 10.5 million between age 6 and 14 in Nigeria and have been left behind in the scheme of things, as it were.What worsens [...]
Over 1.1 million Nigerians have slipped into extreme poverty in just four months, TheCable can report.This has brought the number of Nigerians living in extreme poverty -- or below $1.90 a day -- to 88 million.In June 2018, the Brookings Institution named Nigeria as the poverty capital of the world, with 86.9 million extremely poor people.Nigeria overtook India as the [...]
Nigeria ranked fourth out of 54 African countries in workplace gender equality, with a growth rate of 25 percent between 2008 and 2017, according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) was launched on Monday. The index covers 10 years’ worth of data for 54 African countries.Mo Ibrahim, Foundation chair, and Yvonne Mensah, head of [...]
Patricia Lamour, the CEO of Aspire Education Group, says Nigeria can learn from Mauritius to teach anti-corruption at primary school level.Lamour, who is also the CEO of Gender Education and Enterprise Development for Africa (GEEDA), made this recommendation while speaking about education in Nigeria with Osasu Igbinedion on The Osasu Show.She said one of the items lacking in Nigeria's educational [...]
Thirty-two countries in Africa have better overall governance than Nigeria, the 2018 Mo Ibrahim Index of African governance has revealed.The report, which was unveiled on Monday, showed that Nigeria ranks 34 out of 54 countries on the continent when it comes to governance over the past 10 years -- and well below the African average.According to the index, which measured human [...]
Aisha Buhari, wife of the president, has pledged her continuous support for the health and wellbeing of women and children across the country.NAN reports that Buhari gave the assurance on Saturday during an award ceremony to mark the third anniversary of her NGO, the Future Assured Program.According to her, the health and wellbeing of women and children in Nigeria have [...]
The Nigerian media has committed to drive the domestication and implementation of the United Nations guiding principles (UNGP) for business and human rights.The commitment was secured by Connected Development (CODE) for her policy advocacy activities on the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAPBHR).The media committed to this after holding a successful two-day roundtable with CODE around its [...]
Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo says the federal government is working to reduce Nigeria's population growth by half, via educating women.Speaking at the just concluded Nigerian Economic Summit (NES24), Osinbajo said studies have shown that educating women and girls could reduce population by half."Now, one of the major challenges that we have is massive population growth, that we are experiencing about three percent [...]
Zainab Ahmed, minister of finance, says the federal government is working with religious and traditional leaders on ways to limit the number of children a woman can give birth to.Speaking on Tuesday at the just concluded Nigerian Economic Summit in Abuja, Ahmed said the federal government has identified population as one of the challenges of successfully implementing the Economic Growth [...]
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) says 76 percent of Nigerians are between ages 0 to 24, as the country's population hits 195.9 million.In its UNFPA state of world population report themed "The power of choice: Reproductive rights and the demographic," the UN agency revealed that 148.8 million Nigerians are under the age of 25.This is at conflict with National Population [...]
