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Children learn to keep the wolf from the door
The unemployment rate in Nigeria has risen to 33.3%, up from 27.1% in the second quarter of 2020, according to a report published by the National Bureau of Statistics. A […]
Only God can stop the kidnapping of female students and teachers
What is happening to education in the north of Nigeria is “worrisome, questionable and discouraging”. So said Umar Goni, a lecturer in the education faculty of the University of Maiduguri. […]
Males more likely to take bribes than females
Bribery and corruption remain major problems in Nigeria. But better use of technology could help to stem these crimes. Mohammed Nur Shettima, a computer scientist in Maiduguri, said technology could […]
Don’t doubt the vaccine, go and get it
Africa’s most populous country − with about 200-million people − received its first delivery of 4-million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday. Doctors, scientists and scholars in Borno State’s […]
1,000 Dikwa farmers get seeds and fertilizer
One thousand farmers in the Dikwa Local Government Area received fertilizer and a variety of seeds on Monday, donated by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN (FAO), in […]
New COVID-19 variant is deadlier than ever
Breathlessness and a very high fever are just two of the symptoms of the new variant of the deadly coronavirus COVID-19. Abdullahi Bukar, a medical doctor who works at the […]
Pandemic ‘too inconvenient’ to be real
Some residents of Damboa in Borno State don’t believe in the coronavirus Covid-19 because it is too “inconvenient”. Alhaji Kolo Tasama, a resident, said he did not believe in the […]
‘Uncontrollable’ children run amok
Children in Kirjiri are becoming more ‘uncontrollable’ by the day because they do not go to school – they cannot go because there is no school. The community in Kirjiri […]
Residents of camp are worried sick
If you’re going to go into labour, don’t do it at night in the internally displaced persons’ Sangaya Camp because there are no health workers to help and soldiers patrolling […]
First the nine-month academic strike, now postponement because of COVID-19
The postponement of the reopening of universities because of the coronavirus Covid-19 has left students in Maiduguri, Borno State, disappointed and frustrated. The postponement followed an Academic Staff Union nine-month […]
