Author: Bidemi Nelson

Racheal (not real name) is a 12 year old girl who lives in an urban area of one of the Southwest States in Nigeria but cannot read. She tried to keep it a secret because it embarrassed her until she was specifically asked to read a portion of the Bible in her children’s church. Amid tears, she blurted out that she was not taught how to read at school. It is no longer news that the global learning crises have worsened. Out-of-School children have risen astronomically with learning poverty equally aggravated. A March 2022 Press Release by UNICEF captures that…

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Child abuse has been an age-long topic which has drawn attention and interventions from different stakeholders, locally and globally. The issue of child abuse has been encapsulated within physical, psychological and sexual domains of child relationships including the neglect of children. All forms of child abuse have been ascribed as crimes against children and ultimately, humanity. However, as clear-cut as child abuse descriptions may be, its intricacies sometimes require inferences to establish occurrences of the crime. A case in point is domestic violence. Domestic violence refers to violent incidents that often happen within the confines of a home or domestic…

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Human capital has always determined a nation’s resource deployment and its level of development. Need we say that the quality of human capital in any society is hugely dependent on the quality of education based therein? Education is a process of teaching, training and learning especially in schools or educational institutions to improve knowledge and develop skills, needed for work and life. That being said, illiteracy, innumeracy or the dearth of relevant skills in any society is probably an indicator of the absence of qualitative education or the preponderance of irrelevant education. Like the popular saying of “garbage in, garbage…

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