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October 5, 2021

Nollywood booming while African film industries could create 20m jobs – report | 5 Things That Should Matter Today

Across the African continent, these are the 5 stories you may have missed out on: Nollywood booming while African film industries could create 20m jobs – report Film industries in Africa could quadruple in revenue to $20bn (£15bn) and create an extra 20m jobs in creative industries, according to a report about cinema on the continent.... Read More

Kenya, nollywood, super eagles, UNESCO

Amnesty Int’l: Security agents killed 115 within South East in 4 months; Ghanaian Court acquits 21 arrested at LGBTQ event | 5 Things That Should Matter Today

Security agents kill 115 in South-East within four months, says Amnesty International No fewer than 115 persons from the South-East have been allegedly killed by security operatives between March and June, a report by Amnesty International has revealed. According to the report, relatives of the victims denied the deceased were part of the militants that... Read More

African Union, biafra, COVID-19, Ethopia, Ghana 21, LGBTQ Ghanaians, Tigrey, UNESCO

The #YNaijaEssay: Language preservation in Nigeria and the brick walls [LONG READ]

Many other languages are no longer being learned by new generations of children or by new adult speakers; these languages will become extinct when their last speaker dies. In fact, dozens of languages today have only one native speaker still living, and that person’s death will mean the extinction of the language: It will no... Read More

Editor's Pick, Specials

#MadeInNigeria, Ayodele Ibiyemi, Dámilọ́lá Adébọ́nọ̀jọ, hausa, Ibrahim Ọ̀rẹ́dọlá, igbo, Kelvin Samuel, Language and Identity, Language preservation, Manjot Chauhan, Toluwanimi Malomo, UNESCO, Yoruba

Period Pains: How monthly cycle keeps young girls out of school and kills their dreams

She couldn’t wrap her head around the question being asked of her. She couldn’t fathom the interest in her private business. Try as she may – even with constant nudging – she failed to come to terms with a man’s query about her period. Since she was a little girl, she has been taught to... Read More

Girls, Menstrual Cyce, Menstrual hygiene management, Period Pains, UNESCO, World Bank’s WASH Poverty Diagnostics Initiative

October 25, 2017

[The Activism Blog] 264 million children worldwide not in school, says UNESCO | How many in Nigeria?

UNESCO, in its latest report, claimed that 264 million children worldwide are not in school. Even though the figure looks exaggerated, the fact is that indirectly, without mentioning names, this is a direct shade on Nigeria that we must not waste time to pick. Though the shade is not for us alone, we are a... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

264 million children, education in Nigeria, UNESCO

October 24, 2017

UNESCO says 264m children are out of school worldwide

The United Nations culture and education agency (UNESCO) on Tuesday said about 264 million school-age children and young people worldwide were not in school in 2015. The agency said after a decline in the early 2000s, out-of-school rates have started to stagnate. “Worldwide, there was a completion rate of 83 per cent for primary education, falling to... Read More

264M, children, out of school, UNESCO

October 12, 2017

Following U.S. footsteps, Israel withdraws from UNESCO

Following the United States withdrawal, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, said his country would withdraw its membership from UNESCO. “Netanyahu instructed the Foreign Ministry to prepare Israel’s withdrawal from the organisation in parallel with the U.S.,’’ the prime minister’s office said. Netanyahu in a statement praised the U.S. decision earlier Thursday to pull out... Read More

Benjamin Netanyahu, israel, UNESCO, united states

Opinion: We must save Nigeria’s education system or else…

by ‘Kunle Adebajo On the fourteenth day of the fourth month in 2014, a horrible crime was committed; one not only against persons who are innocent members of the society but poor girls studying silently within the sacred walls of the Ivory Tower. It was barely two weeks away from April Fools’ Day, but this... Read More

America, Chidinma, Chinonye, education, nigeria, opinion, UNESCO

January 8, 2017

Oby Ezekwesili: Chibok Girls – Painful memories of a thousand days

by Oby Ezekwesili On that 30th April 2014 when diverse citizens gathered to march in solidarity, no one could have imagined that any out of our 219 Chibok Girls abducted from their secondary school in April 2014 would remain in captivity of terrorists 1000 days after the tragedy. One recalls pictures of distressed parents supported... Read More

Citizenship, Featured, Opinion

#BBOG, #BringBackOurGirls, Chibok girls, Muhammadu Buhari, nigeria, Oby Ezekwesili, sambisa forest, sticky, UNESCO

October 11, 2016

Opinion: Valuing our teachers and improving their status

by Jide Ojo According to information gleaned from its website, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organisation (UNESCO) proclaimed October 5 to be World Teachers’ Day in 1994, celebrating the great step made for teachers on that date in 1966, when a special intergovernmental conference convened by UNESCO in Paris adopted the UNESCO/International Labour... Read More

Mr. Olukoya, nigeria, president buhari, Teachers, UNESCO, World teachers day

‘Senate fine-tuning Gender Equality Bill so it won’t clash with religion’

The Chairman Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and Tetfund, Senator Binta Masi, on Monday, disclosed that the National Assembly is committed to passing the Gender Equality Bill in due time. Binta stated this at a workshop organised in Abuja by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation(UNESCO); National Universities Commission (NUC) and Are Babalola University,... Read More

gender euality, Masai Binta, NASS, nigeria, parity, senate, senator, UNESCO

January 20, 2016

An economic model for reducing cost of textbooks in Africa – A UNESCO report

A new study by UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report (GEM)* issued on 19 January proposes an economic model that would help reduce the cost of textbooks and increase their availability to students in schools in sub-Saharan Africa. According to the paper, Every Child Should Have a Textbook, centralized financing mechanisms could allow for a US$3... Read More

books, learning, printing, UNESCO

January 13, 2015

Opinion: Why we should all be activists this year

by Joel Pereyi You should be an activist because anything that isn’t working around you is a consequence of your silence. Literary gem, J.P Clark, in his celebrated poem; The Casualties, wrote:“The casualties are not only those who are dead. They are well out of it, though they await burial by installment. The casualties are not ... Read More

Abubakar Shekaus, Buni Yadi, chibok, Gani Fawehinmi Park, Joseph Konys, nigeria, Politics, protest, UNESCO, unity fountain

December 31, 2014

The Citizen-in-Chief: Obiageli Ezekwesili is the Y!/YNaija.com Person of the Year 2014

by The Editors Surely, you know this, that as you celebrated Christmas on the 25th of December this year, perhaps safely with friends and family, a crew of citizens like you, and like us, gathered yet again on the streets of Abuja, under the aegis of the #BringBackOurGirls movement, to continue daily sit outs that... Read More

#BringBackOurGirls, boko haram, chibok, Citizen in Chief, nigeria, Oby Ezekwesili, Person of the Year, POTY, UNESCO, World Bank

September 26, 2014

Pace setters converge for the 7th Port Harcourt Book Festival

by Jewel Stephen Preparations are in top gear as Port Harcourt readies itself for the 7th edition of the Port Harcourt Book Festival, this years event is particularly special because it holds in the year that Port Harcourt is UNESCO World Book Capital. It is going to be another opportunity to raise the flag... Read More

Book Festival, Christie Bature Ogbeifun, Chude Jideonwo, Fela Durotoye, japhet omojuwa, Ndidi Nwuneli, Nekabari Tigidam Perez, nigeria, Port Harcourt, Speakers, UNESCO

Ife Adebayo: Primary education – Another basic need for Nigerians (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo We need to get our children into school, EVERY ONE OF THEM. And the time to do that is TODAY. We are already many years late. Today I’ll be continuing the series on the hierarchy of needs for Nigerians. I wrote initially that the most basic of needs for Nigerians to survive... Read More

#ChildNotBride, education, Electricity, employment, Epe, Food, healthcare, Ife Adebayo, lagos, national assembly, nigeria, Primary education, roads, shelter, slum2school, UNESCO, Y! Politico

January 30, 2013

Ife Adebayo: Economic development: Access to Free Basic Education is non-negotiable (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Come 2015, we must vote in a government that is serious about education, a government with laid down plans and procedures for implementing workable policies in the education sector. The most common definition of literacy defines literacy rate as the number of adults aged 15 and over that can read and write.... Read More

Economic Development, free education, Ife Adebayo, lai mohammed, UBE, UNESCO, Y! Politico

January 10, 2013

Michael Orodare: The Labour Party’s Orange Revolution (Y! Politico)

by Michael Orodare There is a LP spirit in all of us, and that is the spirit that inspires us not to settle for less, but move forward to break new ground, that spirit which triggers us to set new records… By May 29th 2013, all things being equal, Nigeria will be celebrating 14 years... Read More

H.I.D Awolowo, Labour Party, Michael Orodare, Obafemi Awolowo, Olusegun Mimiko, Ondo, Orange Revolution, UN-Habitat Award, UNESCO, Y! Politico

October 16, 2012

‘Feyi Fawehinmi: Look what they did to Education

by Feyi Fawehinmi There is no other way to describe this other than an outrageous disaster. And a timebomb waiting to go off even. I have always known Nigerian education was in a very bad place. But this report shocked me. It’s not so much that we have a crisis on our hands but that,... Read More

Bauch, education, employment, nigeria, UNESCO

September 24, 2012

Religion against humanity by Wole Soyinka

To such a degree has Religion fueled conflict, complicated politics, retarded social development and impaired human relations across the world, that one is often tempted to propose that Religion is innately an enemy of Humanity, if not indeed of itself a crime against Humanity. Certainly it cannot be denied that Religion has proved again... Read More

brazil, humanity, mali, new york, Nobel Laureate, Religion, UN, UNESCO, Wole Soyinka

We beat Oxford! Port Harcourt is Unesco World Book Capital 2014

by Chi Ibe The Unesco World Book Capital City in 2014 title has been awarded to Nigeria’s’Port Harcourt. Cue applause. Considering the caliber of cities bidding for the hosting right such as Oxford, England; Vilnius in Lithuania and Pula in Croatia, it seems a very big deal. But the founder of Rainbow Book Club, Koko... Read More

Oxford, Port Harcourt, UNESCO, World Book Capital City

Bookworms: Port-Harcourt wants to be World Book Capital and President Jonathan is in support

by Stanley Azuakola World Book Capital is a title bestowed by UNESCO to a city in recognition of the quality of its programs to promote books and reading and the dedication of all players in the book industry. The Rivers State capital, Port Harcourt, wants to be the 2014 World Book Capital after Bangkok, Thailand in 2013. It... Read More

Goodluck Jonathan, molara wood, oronto douglas, Port Harcourt, UNESCO, World Book Capital

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