Tag: Children
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Children of Cain and Abel – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido Stories of rags to riches abound in our midst. For instance, a family is very poor, but God leaves no one empty handed, and so gives them a very brilliant eldest son. Even in the harshest conditions, the son strives academically. The family invests its non-existent resources in the son’s education. Mother…
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Benefits of having children in school outweigh risks of COVID-19 transmission – NCDC DG
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Friday that its support for the Federal Government’s decision to reopen schools for the second term of the 2020/2021 academic session was based on the fact that the benefits of having children in school outweigh the risks of transmission of COVID-19. But NCDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, also…
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‘DNA test? Why not? But…’ – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido Recent developments in our space have brought up the issue of doing DNA tests on children to the fore. The DNA test is meant to confirm the paternity of the children. What is DNA? DNA is deoxyribonucleic acid. Both parents supply the DNA of a child; that is where the genes of…
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Sad tales from a mission school – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido Merry Christmas to you, although the news coming out of Deeper Life High School in Akwa Ibom is not merry. Earlier in the week, the news broke of an 11-year-old male student of the school, who was molested and maltreated by senior students. The principal had allegedly moved the victim from a…
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Living in their children’s shadow? – Francis Ewherido
By Francis Ewherido The first time I saw it on social media, I recoiled. A young writer was describing the great Chief Femi Falana and all he could say was Falana is the father of Falz. Chief Falana is, of course, the father of Falz (Folarin Falana), but before Falz became a sensation, there was…
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Why adults sexually abuse minors – Ozioma Onyenweaku
Ozioma Onyenweaku Today I have decided to address here this question which many people have always asked me. Each and every forum I discuss the protection of children from sexual abuse, this question often pops out: why would a full-fledge adult choose to sexually abuse an under-age child when there are a lot of fellow…
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66% of Nigerian rural children can’t read, write – FG
THE Federal Government, on Thursday, revealed that 66 per cent of Nigerian children in rural areas could neither read nor write. The government also said that while Nigeria had a higher burden of adolescent pregnancy and child bearing, 19 per cent of teenagers (15-19) were already mothers or pregnant with their first child. Quoting the…
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ASUU: Children of politicians should be banned from studying abroad– Lecturer
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called for a law placing restriction on public office holders from sending their children to foreign countries to study. The Akure zonal Coordinator of ASUU, Prof. Olufayo Olu-Olu said such ban would put an end the persistent strike in Nigeria’s education sector. Olu-Olu explained that if such…
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Preparing our Children for A Greater Tomorrow, By Chris Anyokwu
Let us start this discourse with a light-hearted and brief look at the two main schools of thought which bifurcate the categorial heart of social anthropology as a contemporary field of intellectual enquiry, namely: the nature verses the nurture school. The Nature school holds that human beings as social animals are primarily influenced and shaped…
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FG to feed, deworm children with N142.3 billion in 2021
In 2021, under the Home-Grown School Feeding (NHGSFP), the federal government has penned N142.3 billion to feed 9.86 million children, deworm seven million children and recount the pupils. The proposed allocation for the NHGSFP accounts for 40.5 per cent of the total recurrent expenditure of the nation’s social investment programmes, NSIP, domiciled under the ministry…