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Cracking The Glass Ceiling: The Story of Kwara Women

The Government and great people of Kwara state cordially invite the general public to a celebration of the achievements and contributions of women of Kwara state origin, themed; *”Cracking The Glass Ceiling: The Story of Kwara Women”* ….As a gender-inclusive administration, the government of Kwara, led by His Excellency, Governor Abdulrahaman AbdulRasaq acknowledges the contributions…

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Nigeria @61: what’s worth celebrating?

By Abiodun Akinwumi Nigeria as a country has gone through different stages on its way to the sixty-first Independence Day that is being celebrated today across the nooks and crannies of the country and beyond. Though the nationalists that fought hard to gain Nigeria’s ‘demographic freedom’ could not envisage a country of over sixty years…

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Kwara Online Publishers Association Elects New Leadership

The Kwara Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (KOPAN) has yesterday elected her executives who will be in charge of the association for the next three years. The election which was conducted at the KOPAN Secretariat, Yidi Road Ilorin, saw Hammed Adedayo Said emerged as the maiden Chairman of the association. Electoral Committee Chairman, Rowland Olonishuwa,…

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Take Aways From The Day Of The African Child

By Mukhtar Ajelogbon On June 16, 1976, nearly ten thousand black students from Soweto, South Africa, marched the streets to protest the poor quality of their education. They marched as a way to demonstrate their disapproval of the Black Education Act, which segregated students based on their race. Hundreds of innocent students were shot by…

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NIGERIAN EDUCATION IN SHAMBLES: A case study of a thousand Students’ abduction in seven months

By Mukhtar Ajelogbon Nigeria has recorded abductions of not less than one-thousand-and-fifty-seven students of secondary and tertiary institutions, by suspected bandits and Boko Haram members between December 2020 and the first week of July, 2021. Findings showed that abductions were carried out in different states across the country. During the period under review, abductions were…

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COVID-19 In Nigeria; One Year On

By Mukhtar Ajelogbon It was like every other health emergency declaration when the World Health Organisation on the 30th of January, 2020 declared COVID-19 to be a public health emergency of international concern. The pandemic which broke out earlier in December 2019 in Wuhan China had spread across the world. In Nigeria, the first index case…

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GULLY EROSION CRISIS IN NIGERIA; A Case Study Of Kwara

By Mukhtar Ajelogbon Climate change causes more intense downpours that always aggravating erosion by adding to other factors destabilising soils including deforestation, unsustainable farming, mining of sand for brick-making, road construction and poorly designed drains. As rainfall increases in intensity because of climate change, landslides are becoming more common which will pose serious erosion threat…

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