COVID-19 School Closures: 100 Million More Children Can’t Read, UNESCO Study Reveals

More than 100 million more children than expected, are falling behind the minimum proficiency level in reading, due to COVID-related school closures. A new study by the United Nations cultural agency, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), reveals this. According to the UNESCO study, One year into COVID: Prioritizing education recovery to avoid a generational catastrophe, even before the pandemic the […]

UNESCO Chief Rings Alarm, Says Human Survival Under Threat   

Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Audrey Azoulay, says the COVID-19 pandemic is still threatening the conditions for humanity and biodiversity survival. Speaking while opening the UNESCO Forum on Biodiversity, she pointing out that one year after its emergence, the pandemic, ‘’it has confirmed what we had already known; “by threatening biodiversity, humanity […]

UNESCO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 1# NO POVERTY

Introduction: To understand the UNESCO Sustainable Development Goal 1# No Poverty; it is worthwhile to explain what poverty is in its entirety. There are many definitions attributed to poverty owing to the different context of it usage. Let us look at some of the definitions. United Nations: Fundamentally, poverty is the inability of having choices […]

OYO: PRIORITIZING THE PEOPLE INFRASTRUCTURE

In just about a week, after the media trended the rising traffic of Ibadan for us, as we speak, there is a most recent demolition of MRS filling station at Challenge roundabout. The roundabout structure itself is gone too, now a plane ground, awaiting new development. The MRS station had been a popular landmark at […]

Abba Moro bemoans poor budgetary allocation for education

The Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Comrade Abba Patrick Moro, has decried the insufficient allocation for education and some other sectors in the 2021 budget proposal presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari last week. Speaking at the plenary on the floor of the Senate, Senator Moro said the budgetary allocations to […]

A Slow Decline In Child’s Right – COVID19 & Africa

Children are not the face of this pandemic. But they risk being among its biggest victims. While they have thankfully been largely spared from the direct health effects of COVID-19 at least to date the crisis is having a profound effect on their wellbeing. All children, of all ages, and in all countries, are being […]

COVID-19: Why invest billions in feeding pupils who aren’t learning anything?

It is no longer news that COVID-19 has brought untold disruption to a classroom education in almost every part of the world. Going by statistics from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), as of March 28, 2020, over 1.7 billion students in 120 countries and 60.2 million teachers were out of school […]

Sustainable Partnership, TY Danjuma, and 2030 Development Agenda

Apart from the revelation by economists that globally, governments are ‘resource-and bandwidth-constrained’, our mind eye using available data also observes that Nigeria’s income has been on the increase since independence. As the income increases so do expenditure. But as expenditure is increasing, so has budget deficit been on the increase as well. An unconstructive trend it seems, […]

100 Fake Professors; a Pointer to Larger Frames of Challenge

Writing on the topic; The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer, Amar Bhide, Professor at Harvard University, among other remarks, noted that formulating a sound strategy is more basic to an organization than resolving hiring issues, designing control systems, setting reporting relationship or defining the founder’s role. Ventures based on a good strategy can survive confusion and poor […]

Why We Are Failing As A Nation

Asked how he was able to grow fifteen times, independent Singapore with a GDP of $3billion in 1965 to $46billion in 1997, and became the 8th highest per capita GNP in the world in 1997 according to the World Bank ranking?  Lee Kuan Yew, the Prime Minister of Singapore (as he then was) explained thus; […]