About 10,000 out of the 12,000 primary school teachers in Jigawa State are unqualified, chairman of the 11-man committee set up by the government to source for quality teachers, Professor Kabiru Isyaku has said.

THE UPPER East Regional Minster, Mr. Mark Woyongo, has exercised his prerogative of mercy on five students of the Bawku Technical Institute (BTI), who would have been dismissed outright, following their active role in the disturbances that ensued between the

NINE FINAL year students of the University College of Management Studies (UCOMS) are contemplating filing a law suit against the management of the school, for failing to register them for this year's London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) professional

Former archbishop of Kampala, Emmanuel Cardinal Wamala has asked the education ministry to work with the Church to improve the country's education system.

A new research by Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE), a charity organisation, has revealed that the high cost of Sanitary towels contributes highly to the rate of absenteeism in school.

The North West region was part of the celebration of the first African day for the reduction of Maternal and Neonatal mortality recently with revelations that the Bamenda health district recorded about five cases of Maternal and Neonatal mortality last

Following Barack Obama's 4 June speech in Cairo, Algerian secularist Marieme Helie Lucas doesn't think the president's discourse is the new voice of peace.

I hope I will not be hanged upside down for what I am about to say but I am going to say it anyway. You guessed right, I am going to talk about marriage, lobola/iigondwa (bride price), and human/women rights.

This year the world reaches an invisible but momentous milestone: for the first time in history, more than half its population will be living in urban areas. In Kenya, rapid urbanisation is creating deepening poverty among urban residents.

Confusion and fear of a possible sectarian crisis reigned in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri yesterday when a squad of the state's special anti-robbery outfit Operation Flush shot 17 followers of the Muslim cleric Malam Mohammad Yusuf.

Religious groups, including churches and Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) will now be required to pay taxes on all their goods and services, the government has announced.

A breakaway faction of married priests says they are not rebels but a personal prelature within the Roman Catholic Church.

A Roman Catholic bishop in Zambia has welcomed the decision by aid development groups to slow down aid to the country's health sector following allegations of a multi-million dollar corruption scandal in the Ministry of Health.

The Catholic University of Sudan will start a BA degree in Economics and Business Administration at its Juba campus.

This daily press review is compiled by the Information Section of the Public Affairs Office of the American Embassy in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The national rugby team this week travelled to Abidjan to take on Ivory Coast in a semi-final World Cup qualifier first leg encounter on Saturday.

Significant strides have been taken in Burundi in implementing its ceasefire accord and laying the foundations for next year's presidential election, the United Nations top envoy to the impoverished African nation said today.