Tag: education
A Community-Driven Organisation Is Helping To Re-Staff A Government Girls’ School In Kano
KANO, Nigeria: For over a decade, Government Girls’ Secondary School (GGSS), Tsakuwa, has struggled with a shortage of teachers and teaching equipment. Despite their pleas to local and state authorities, the school remained in a state of neglect. But the people of Tsakuwa –...
A Private School In Kuje Where Students Pay N100 A Day
By Chinonso Kenneth
FCT, Nigeria: Victoria Linus’s world was turned upside down with the sudden passing of her husband in 2015 throwing her into a state of uncertainty. As a mother committed to equipping her four children with formal education, her meagre earnings from her...
The Unique Education Program that Made a Difference in Gidan-Yaro Community
Lead Writer: Muritala Abdullahi SOKOTO, NIGERIA: On a hot Sunday afternoon in July 2023 at Gidan-yaro community in Wammako Local Government Area of Sokoto state, Lawal Umaru gets set to join his father in his kiosk where they will sell foodstuff. Umaru, 15, had to drop...
How A Literary Movement is Helping Children Cultivate Reading Culture in Kiishi Community
TSP/OSUN, NIGERIA: Reading comes easy for most children, but for 18-year-old Dauda Abdulhaleem, it's a daily struggle. Despite his best efforts, he could only manage to read not more than ten pages before feeling defeated and discouraged. He yearned to be released from the limitations...
How Out-Of-School Children are Benefiting from this Street to School Initiative
Using a unique model, a youth driven street to school initiative is sending out of school children in Nigeria back to the classroom