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The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old suspect, Bassey Johnson, for allegedly raping a four-year-old girl in the Idimu area of the state. The school-leaver, who is also learning a trade, allegedly raped the girl, Fatima (pseudonym), when she and her elder brother went to watch a television …

Drug Free Hendry County is hosting Bobby Petrocelli, a renowned motivational speaker to share his heartbreaking, but hope filled story with Hendry and Glades Counties. Bobby will be speaking at LaBelle, Clewiston and Moore High Schools to tell his story and to encourage parents and all adults to talk with …

The federal government is planning to increase school enrollment in the country to 13.6million children by 2020. The focal person of the federal government’s Social Intervention Investment Programme for Niger State, Mrs. Afiniki Dauda, who disclosed this in Minna, the state capital, yesterday, said the government also planned to ensure …

Open Evening – Thursday 22nd September 2016 (School finishes at 2.30pm) Gordano School will be holding an Open Evening for prospective Students and Parents on Thursday 22nd September 2016 at 6.00pm. Please note that the School finishes at 2.30pm (end of period 5) on this date.

As state primary school and nursery teachers were poised to strike from noon, union leader Filios Fylaktou accused Education Minister Costas Kadis of “criminal mistakes”. Head of state primary school teacher union Poed, Fylaktou made the statement on state radio with Kadis replying by saying he would “not stoop so …

Nearly 20 teachers of a Corporation school and two government schools will be benefited by a training programme which will enable them gain indepth knowledge in various subjects with the inauguration of the Rashtriya Aviskar Abhiyan (RAA) scheme here on Tuesday. The School Education Department’s programme is part of the …

AS school children resume from the long vacation, parents have commenced withdrawing their children from private schools to public ones, attributing their action to the harsh economic situation in the country. Parents and school owners, lamented the bad economic situation, with proprietors stating that since resumption their schools have been …

Over 14 million Nigerians are directly affected by humanitarian crises in the North-east region of the country, two international humanitarian groups have reported. The 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative from the United States and the Stefanus Foundation, based in Nigeria, gave the figure on Monday in Abuja. Addressing journalists during a …

MANILA, Philippines – Several groups are set to commemorate today the 44th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.   Militant youth groups will mark the commemoration with the youth day for education, peace and human rights with various activities in different schools in …

BALTIMORE (WJZ)– State Comptroller Peter Franchot and the NAACP sent a letter to the Department of Justice arguing that many of the schools without air conditioning in low income communities is a civil rights issue. 50,000 area kids are going to class in schools without air conditioning. Skyrocketing temperatures inside …