Education
Weekly Press Review 12-18 September, 2025
Regional News What next for Mali as Wagner fails to defeat insurgents? | ISS Africa A new report suggests that Niger, Burkina Faso – and Europe can learn a lot […]
Sanitary Pads Tax-Free: More Affordable for Conflict-Affected Women
Nigeria’s government announced tax-free policy on sanitary pads making them more available and affordable. Lower income women use pieces of cloth to manage their monthly flow, which is unhygienic and harmful. Tax removal will improve health condition
Education a significant tool to empower girls
The children of Borno are ‘among the most conflict-affected and educationally disadvantaged in the world’ – and 60% of the 700,000 out-of-school children in the state are girls. Of the […]
School offers free education for Borno State’s out-of-school kids
Hope for the future as academic and philanthropist opens school for less-privileged kids, hoping to get out-of-school children – including girls and orphans – off the streets and into classrooms. […]
Borno State: Number of out-of-school children reduced from 2.2 million to 700,00
Still many children roaming the streets without an education; some have dropped out, others are Almajiri kids begging for food – education must be prioritised as a fundamental right. The […]
Varsity students cut classes to save costs
As the cash squeeze gets tighter and the cost-of-living crisis escalates, students at the University of Maiduguri in Borno State take up ‘side hustles’ to pay tuition fees. The prohibitive […]
Unified counterterrorism curriculum for Tsangaya Islamic schools welcomed
New curriculum aims to counter violent and extremist ideologies and ensure pupils will not be influenced by radical groups Islamic and peacekeeping organisations have welcomed the move to introduce a […]
Overcrowded classrooms and shortage of teachers an epic failure for Borno State
It is not unusual to find 80 to 150 pupils in a class with a single teacher – and often there are not even enough chairs for all the schoolchildren […]
Dire poverty prevents children from returning to Maiduguri schools for the start of the second term
Desperate poverty was one of the main reasons many Maiduguri children did not return to school for the second term, which began on Monday, January 9.
