A Professor of applied mathematics with the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA, Mr Olusegun Olotu has observed that Nigeria may soon be faced with acute shortage of teachers of mathematics with dire consequences for education, science and technology. He sounded the warning while delivering the 123rd inaugural lecture of the university in Akure on Tuesday. According to the don, the shortage of teachers and lecturers of pure mathematics is not peculiar to Nigeria and its university system but a global phenomenon that must be addressed very urgently. He warned that “pure mathematics will soon vanish as time progresses if…
Author: Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Minister of state for Education, Mr Chukuemeka Nwajiuba, on Thursday said Nigeria has more than 10 million out-of-school children, the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. Nwajiuba made this known at the launching of Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) by Jigawa Government in Dutse. “With an estimated 10,193,918 children out-of-school, Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in Sub-Saharan Africa. “For us to address these challenges adequately therefore, we must strengthen the quality of basic education in Nigeria by confronting head-on those factors that deny our children access to basic education,” the minister said. To this end, Nwajiuba…
As the Hijab controversy rages on in Kwara state, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has called on stakeholders to call the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to order. Violence erupted on Wednesday at the Baptist Secondary School in Ilorin reportedly following the refusal of the school authorities to allow female Muslim students to use hijab. Parents of the students were also reported to have engaged the school authorities in a hot argument which resulted into a stone-throwing between Christians and Muslims. However, MURIC in a statement by its director, Professor Ishaq Akintola called on CAN to observe restraint and allow…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) says only adequate resources will tackle challenges of insecurity, widespread poverty and hunger in the country. The South West Zone of the Christian body said this in a communique issued at the end of a 2-day first quarterly meeting held at the Pope John Paul 11 Pastoral Centre, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, on Wednesday. The communique was signed by Rev. Fr. Raphael Osegboun and Rev. Luke Bamigboye, the Zonal Chairman and Secretary, respectively. It therefore called on Nigerian leaders to channel more resources to address the threats facing the nation. The association expressed the…
The World Health Organization (WHO) said in Geneva on Wednesday that some countries in the European Union (EU) temporarily suspended the use of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a precautionary measure. In a statement, the WHO said this decision was based on reports of rare blood coagulation disorders in persons who had received the vaccine. It said, however, that other countries in the EU – having considered the same information – had decided to continue using the vaccine in their immunization programmes. “Vaccination against COVID-19 will not reduce illness or deaths from other causes. Thromboembolic events are known to occur…
Holders Bayern Munich cruised into the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals for the ninth time in the last 10 seasons. This was after beating Lazio 2-1 at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday to secure a 6-2 aggregate victory. Leading 4-1 from the first leg in Rome, Robert Lewandowski opened the scoring for Bayern Munich from the penalty kick spot in the 33rd minute. It was his 39th goal of the season in all competitions. The German champions took their foot off the gas before substitute Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, having replaced Lewandowski, added the second goal in the 73rd minute. Marco Parolo…
Chelsea beat Atletico Madrid 2-0 on Wednesday to reach the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals for the first time since 2014. Hakim Ziyech and Emerson Palmieri were on target to give coach Thomas Tuchel’s rejuvenated team a 3-0 aggregate win. Substitute Emerson made sure of victory by scoring in the fourth minute of added time for Chelsea’s second goal. Atletico Madrid were left to rue referee Daniele Orsato’s decision not to give a penalty kick when scores were 0-0. This was when Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta underhit a back pass and put his arm around Yannick Carrasco who went down in…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported nine coronavirus-related deaths and 187 new infections on Wednesday. NCDC said in its official Twitter handle that the agency recorded two deaths on March 16, adding that the country had registered 2,027 deaths since the pandemic emerged in the country on Feb. 27, 2020. The country have tested 1,684,305 people since the first confirmed case of the disease. The NCDC also said it registered 187 new COVID-19 cases in 18 states in the last 24 hours, bringing confirmed cases to 161,261 to date. It said out of the 187 registered new cases Lagos recorded…
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the Federal Government and Inspector General of Police, IGP, to intervene in the ongoing violence over Hijab policy in Kwara. The appeal is contained in a statement by the General Secretary, CAN, Mr Joseph Daramola, in Abuja. ”We learnt that the State Government has ordered the reopening of the closed schools without resolving the crisis. ”Consequently, churches and mission schools are being vandalised with impunity by the hoodlums banking on the state government’s support in the pretext of enforcing the policy. ”Some innocent Christians are being violently abused and attacked under the watch of…
Tanzania vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan has confirmed the death of the country’s President John Magufuli from heart complications. He made the disclosure in a televised address on Thursday night, Africanews has reported. “It is with great regret that I inform you that today, 17 March 2021, at 18:00, we have lost our courageous leader, President John Pombe Magufuli of Tanzania,” said Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania Vice President. Hassan said that Magufuli was hospitalized on March 6 at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute. This comes after weeks of speculation on his whereabouts with the suspicion that he had been hospitalized for…