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Nigeria to Expand Adolescent Girls’ Education Program to Reach 8.6 Million Girls

The Additional Financing will scale up project activities from the current seven states to eleven additional states and increase the targeted beneficiaries to include out-of-school (OOS) girls ABUJA, Nigeria, September 22, 2023/ -- The World Bank approved additional financing of $700 m for Nigeria to scale up the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment |

According to the World Bank, Nigeria has 12 to 15 million out-of-school children in the school-age group.

Party says the ongoing fires in the province indicate possible signs of economic sabotage

Overstrand Rural Safety Unit (ORSU) enjoyed a huge success in the fight against drugs and drug smuggling when they confiscated 163 cannabis plants and a variety of paraphernalia associated with growing cannabis during a raid on a suspected cannabis l

This is the keynote address delivered to the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference, Utrecht, August 2023, by Mark Swilling.

The police minister, Bheki Cele, noted that the rising spate of political killings is being dominated by the three parties in KZN.

Cele, who also chairs the committee, said 52 councillors had been shot dead since 2011 to date.

More than 300 cases have been investigated since July 2018 by the multidisciplinary police task team investigating political killings in KwaZulu-Natal, including 155 murders.

Investigations by the inter-ministerial committee looking into political killings in KwaZulu-Natal have revealed the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP ) and National Freedom Party (NFP) are the most affected by political killings.