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Daily Monitor Saturday January 16 2021 The spokesperson of Criminal Investigations Department, Mr Charles Twiine, confirmed the arrest of the activists, but declined to give details. Summary The spokesperson of Criminal Investigations Department, Mr Charles Twiine, confirmed the arrest of the activists, but declined to give details. Advertisement Security agencies on Thursday raided a city hotel and arrested more than 30 polling observers. The polling observers under NGO Forum were holding a me...

Punch Newspapers Sections Adeniyi Olugbemi, Sokoto Governor Aminu Tambuwal, during the commencement of the 2020/21 Better Education Service Delivery Agency enrolment drive said the state government, under the programme, targets over 90,000 children for enrollment this year. Tambuwal, according to a statement by his special adviser on media and publicity, Muhammad Bello. said, “Under the programme, over 1,513 integrated Quranic Schools have been created just as teachers have been recruited and...

Reaching out to kids amid pandemic Post News Network The novel coronavirus pandemic has thrown lives out of gear for all of us. But the impact has been disproportionately felt by children from the vulnerable communities. All aspects of their lives namely protection, nutrition as well as education have taken a hit, Sandhyabati Pradhan, OSCPCR chairperson Bhubaneswar: Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) and Action Aid & Child Fund India is all set to o...

This has left many parents potentially struggling to juggle work and home-schooling commitments. Hiring an online tutor is an option but this can be expensive. According to The Tutor Website, the hourly rate for a tutor can range between £15 and £45. Not all parents are equipped with everything they need to feel inspired to homeschool. But there are free and low cost resources online that can help Fortunately, there are a number of established and new players such as banks, online learning pl...

Sokoto enrolled 75,000 children into schools in 2020 ― Tambuwal Sokoto enrolled 75,000 children into schools in 2020 ― Tambuwal Share Sokoto State government under the Better Education Service Delivery Agency (BESDA) programme enrolled over seventy-five thousand children into basic schools in 2020. Similarly, this year, the state government, under the programme, targets over 90,000 children for enrollment. Governor Aminu Tambuwal stated this Wednesday at the official flag-off of BESDA enro...

Share YEAR 2021 started on a good note for the Nigerian women with the emergence of  Nneka Onyeali–Ikpe as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank, on January 1, and  Yemisi Edun as the acting Managing Director of  First Monument Bank (FCMB) on January 6,  2021 respectively. With these latest appointments the number of women currently sitting at the helms of affairs in the banking industry has risen to six. This is a no mean feat bearing in mind that the banking...

BULLETIN BOARD Canadian University of Bangladesh presents English Genius STAFF CORRESPONDENT STAFF CORRESPONDENT The Department of English, Canadian University of Bangladesh (CUB) has recently launched a competitive online event named "English Genius" with a view to bringing out genius minds from all over Bangladesh on multiple categories. The event is being organized with CUB English Club as a co-host and youth organization Evolution360 as a promotio...

500 NGOs, civil society orgs name new platform Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent A platform -- comprising of development organisations and civil society groups -- is a positive initiative indeed to achieve Bangladeshs SDG 2030 targets, says Dr Gowher Rizvi, international affairs adviser to the prime minister. He said this newly formed platform will have in-depth research to find solutions for hunger, poverty and lack of education. "It will then help build successful advocacy," he made t...

Meghan Markle settles privacy claim over park photos The Duchess of Sussex brought privacy and data protection claims against the Splash News and Picture Agency in March over the long-lens photographs. FILE: The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, visited Action Aid on 1 October 2019. The organisation works against poverty and injustice, to discuss gender-based violence and its impact in South Africa. Picture:...

Joint Press Release againts stigmatization campaign to the Colombian Feedration of Educators of Colombia -FECODE- 17.12.2020 - Bogotá, Colombia - CLADE - This post is also available in: Spanish, Portuguese Colombian history has been characterised by the existence of conflictive, difficult and dangerous conditions for social movements, trade unions, peasants, indigenous people and Afro-descendan...