NIGERIA

FG unveils textbook ranking system to standardise quality, limit approved materials, and strengthen curriculum compliance across Nigerian schools. The Federal Government has introduced a National Textbook Ranking System for primary, junior, and senior secondary schools as part of efforts to improve quality assurance and standardisation in Nigeria’s education sector. In...

Global institutions have thrown support behind Nigeria’s climate investment summit as the country pushes for more green financing.  Prominent global institutions, including the Commonwealth Secretariat, Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll), and the City of London, as well as the Worshipful Company of Fuellers, have thrown their weight behind the inaugural...

Nigeria boosts workers’ welfare with higher allowances, housing scheme, and new retirement benefits for civil servants. The federal government on Friday unveiled a broad package of welfare enhancements for public workers, anchored on a N10 billion housing initiative spearheaded by the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN), improved allowances, as...

Ganduje says neglect of persons with disabilities drives rising begging crisis across northern Nigeria, urges urgent intervention. A former Governor of Kano State, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has lamented that the neglect of  persons living with disabilities (PWDs) has led to an army of beggars in the North. To this end,...

Sobowale says Nigeria must focus on enforcement and prevention without overstating drug crisis. ARISE News analyst Dayo Sobowale has said that while drug abuse remains a serious threat to Nigerian youth, the situation should not be overstated as a national emergency. Speaking during an interview on Wednesday, Sobowale acknowledged the...