DATE: MONDAY 6TH APRIL, 2020 We are a group of Civil Society Organisations working to support government’s anti-corruption efforts by monitoring the implementation of the Home Grown School Feeding programme (HGSFP) in Ogun and Kaduna States. Our interventions in the past three years have

Education in Africa is faced with a lot of challenges but also fraught with a lot of opportunities. As the continent with the world’s largest youth population. Nigeria, the continent’s largest population, still has the world’s highest number of out-of-school children and learning outcomes are

In biology, we were taught about the power of community relative to growth and survival. A lot of animals survive and thrive only because they live in a community. From the smallest organisms (bacteria who live in colonies) to the medium-sized bees and ants to the large lions and apes, animals

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Teachers are the essential school-level determinant of children’s learning. Chances are, if you take a cohort of students and situate them under a tree but give them a capable teacher, they will learn. A capable teacher is one who cares for children and is cognitively sound, skilled, loves

Discussants at the Accenture Nigeria Alumni Network event recently held in Lagos with the theme ‘Re-imagine Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution’, have advocated a purposeful basic education system in Nigeria that equips children with skills by taking advantage of the opportunities