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THE STANDARD By Mohamed Guleid | February 4th 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300 According to the Kenyan law, education for children is a right. The Basic Education Act of 2013 states that every child has a right to free and compulsory education. Going to school, therefore, is not a matter of choice, but an obligation. Every parent must ensure his or her child goes to school, failure of which might lead to prosecution. Unfortunately, most children from the pastoralist communities lack this opportunity. Insufficient infrastructure for education has been a challenge to easy access to education for ch...

Where Do Herdsmen Get Guns From? By Listen to article There is no denying the fact that “Criminals will always get guns.” It is a common refrain among those that are against the ease with which criminals parade guns; AK47 for that matter, to the detriment of innocent Nigerians. The saying, no doubt, is eliciting a debate of sort, and it is worrisome because of its apparent actuality. In spite of the best efforts of police and policymakers, gun violence linked to herdsmen has been exacting heavy toll on Nigerians so much so that as you read this piece, Oyo and Ondo States have in the las...

By Yinusa Ishola Ado-Ekiti, Jan 2, 2021 A don, Mary Oyewale, on Saturday, expressed support for improvement in educational provision and training opportunities, under the 2021 budget, specifically for Nomads, for them to be part of the nation’s development plans. Oyewale of the Department of Arts and Languages, Faculty of Education, Ekiti State University, who made the call in an interview with newsmen in Ado-Ekiti, stated that every Nigerian child had a right to equal educational opportunity, irrespective of real or imagined disabilities. “There is the need for the nomads to be given att...