Schools

Lagos demolishes shanties around schools

5 months ago905 min

The Lagos State Government has continued its ongoing removal of illegal structures around school premises with the exercise extended to the Ikotun area on Wednesday. PUNCH Metro learnt that the operatives from the Enforcement Unit of the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources and the Environmental Taskforce Team stormed the Community Senior Grammar School in the morning, and ordered the traders occupying the structures to vacate them. This was followed by an...

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EXCLUSIVE: Enugu Community Excommunicates 6 Families, ‘Members Barred From Churches, Children Denied Access To Schools’

5 months ago797 min

SaharaReporters has learned that children from six families in Amaofia village, Umunevo Ohana-Amagunze autonomous community, Nkanu East Local Government Area, Enugu, have been barred from attending school and engaging in church activities within the community. This development reportedly began on May 28, 2024, following the excommunication announcement by the new leadership of the Town Union, led by President General Anioma Ndubuisi, former President General Ozor Francis Nnamani (aka Omaga), and two others, Mr. Kelvin...

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Defence Headquarters Says It Rescued 137 Nigerian Schoolchildren Kidnapped From Kaduna Schools In Neighbouring Zamfara, Not 287

9 months ago916 min

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters has said that schoolchildren abducted in Kaduna on March 7, 2024, were rescued in Zamfara State. It however gave the number of those rescued as 137 and not 287 reportedly kidnapped when terrorists invaded LEA School in Kuriga. The schoolchildren, aged five to 18 were abducted on Thursday, March 7 from the Kuriga primary and secondary schools in the state and the kidnappers demanded a ransom of N1 billion...