Hussaina Musa, a 13-year old is one of the over 130 million girls out of school in the world. Hussaina like many girls in northern nigeria in her shoes, dropped out of school not because she wants to get married but simply due to cost her widowed mother could not bear.
Hussaina’s mum, now 28 year old married since she was 15 in Sabon Gayan, a community in Kaduna State. She gave birth to 6 children including Hussaina, before death snatched her husband. And this was when Hussaina’s travails began.
“I left school not quite long because I could not afford the expenses it involved any further. I was in primary 3 when I stopped going to school” in the words of Hussaina, who is ambitious to return to the classroom and learn.
A teacher helps Hafsatu, 13, at a UNICEF-supported school in the northern state of Bauchi, Nigeria.
Photo:UNICEF.
Nigeria already has 10 million children out of school—the highest number in the world. Almost one of three primary age children is not enrolled and one in four secondary-school age children. In many states, girls are twice as likely to be out of school as boys. In some parts of Nigeria, only five percent of the poorest young women are literate. Given these challenges, it is "especially abhorrent" that the girls were abducted to prevent them from attending school.
African Development Bank Seeks Partnerships To Lift 1 Billion People Out of Hunger Globally
“We must not get carried away: we are not winning the war against global hunger”
INDIANAPOLIS, United States of America, September 26, 2018/ -- The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) called on global partners to join hands to lift one billion people worldwide out of hunger and said it was leading the way by investing US$24 billion in African agriculture over the next 10 years in the largest such effort ever.
African Development Bank Boosts Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy with Close to $2 Million
Fund for African Private Sector Assistance (FAPA), of which the Government of Japan is a major donor, along with the Austrian Government and the African Development Bank, will contribute $923,570 and $988,202 to finance the Bank’s Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab (eLab) programs
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, September 25, 2018/ -- The African Development Bank’s (www.AfDB.org) Fund for African Private Sector Assistance (FAPA) (http://bit.ly/2xAJfTU), has provided funds totaling nearly US $2 million to its Jobs for Youth in Africa initiative.
FAPA, of which the Government of Japan is a major donor, along with the Austrian Government and the African Development Bank, will contribute $923,570 and $988,202 to finance the Bank’s Fashionomics Africa Digital Marketplace and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Lab (eLab) programs, respectively. Both programs form key components of the Bank’s Jobs for Youth in Africa Strategy, which invests in high-growth sectors with potential to promote youth and women’s empowerment, as well as create 25 million jobs over the next decade.
Re: PDP Heads To Court Over Osun Governorship Election by donphilopus: 7:14pm On Sep 24
During the Kogi 2015 guber poll, the late Abubabakar Audu was leading the then incumbent, Idris Wada (of PDP) with a margin of about 43k and the election was declared inconclusive because some polling units with about 49k voting strength had their votes cancelled. PDP celebrated the declaration because they knew if they had declared Audu the winner, automatically, Faleke would have been sworn in as the governor after the death of Audu. Now, same thing has happened in Osun and they are already crying foul.
The rerun would be conducted in Osun come Thursday and APC candidate would emerge the winner and heaven would not fall!
Immigration Minister Strengthens Cooperation with Nigeria on Modern Slavery

LONDON, 21 September 2018 / PRN Africa / --Minister for Immigration, Caroline Nokes, has travelled to Nigeria to visit the new Joint Border Task Force buildings in Lagos.
The Minister for Immigration, Caroline Nokes, has travelled to Nigeria to further strengthen the UK's efforts to tackle human trafficking and modern slavery. This visit follows Prime Minister Theresa May's visit to the country last month, where she unveiled a range of support to cut illegal and unsafe migration into Europe from West Africa.
Nigeria is the fifth-largest country of origin for victims of modern slavery in Britain. This abhorrent crime sees men, women and children ensnared by traffickers and brought to Europe, denied their liberty and forced into work, prostitution or criminal activity.
It is @Orikinla Again!
The Scarlet Pimpernel of Nigeria.
Acting as an Hausa gentle Mallam wearing the Hausa cap I bought in Abuja. It is better than the ones I wanted to buy in Lagos months ago.
People in Peaceful Countries More Pessimistic About Peace Prospects Than Those in Conflict Zones, says New Poll by International Alert and the British Council

LONDON, September 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- People in more peaceful countries are more pessimistic about prospects for peace than those in conflict environments, according to a survey of 15 countries commissioned by International Alert and the British Council.
The Peace Perceptions Poll 2018, conducted in partnership with global polling agency RIWI, asked people around the world about their perceptions of peace and conflict.
African Agric Ministers, Private and Public Sector Leaders Push for More Investment, Less Talk
ABIDJAN, Côte d'Ivoire, 14 September 2018 / PRN Africa / -- Several African agriculture ministers joined public and private sector representatives calling for more investment in agriculture at a Leadership4Agriculture event held at the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) in Kigali, Rwanda.
Organized by the African Development Bank, the Leadership4Agriculture session facilitated partnerships between policy makers, private investors, institutions and offered participants opportunity to learn more about the Leadership4Agriculture network's agenda to drive action-oriented, growth enabling investments.
Lagos To Host Biannual Africa Fintech Summit for the First Time in November
The Summit, organized by Dedalus Global, gathers innovators, investors, policy makers and other key stakeholders in the Fintech sector to discuss technologies transforming finance on the continent, debate regulatory policies, compare best practices, and forge new ventures
LAGOS, Nigeria, September 17, 2018/ -- Africa’s premier fintech event, the Africa Fintech Summit, (www.AfricaFintechSummit.com) will be held for the first time in Lagos, Nigeria, on November 8-9, 2018. This event comes on the heels of the earlier edition in Washington D.C. which featured leading policy makers, c-suite business executives, start-ups, and investors.
Scene from AFTS Washington, at the National Press Club
(Source: Dedalus Global.)
Olanrewaju Osibona, Senior Special Advisor to the President of Nigeria on ICT, speaking at the AFTS Washington
(Source: Dedalus Global.)
The Summit, organized by Dedalus Global, gathers innovators, investors, policy makers and other key stakeholders in the Fintech sector to discuss technologies transforming finance on the continent, debate regulatory policies, compare best practices, and forge new ventures.
The following is the full text of the letter of resignation of Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, the former Minister of Finance of Nigeria and former Chairman of the Board of African Export–Import Bank (AfreximBank).
His Excellency
Muhammadu Buhari
President, Federal Republic of Nigeria
State House
Aso Villa
Abuja
Dear Excellency,
Let me commence by thanking you profusely for the honour and privilege of serving under your inspirational leadership. It has been a truly rewarding experience to learn from you and to observe at close quarters your integrity and sense of duty.
I have, today, become privy to the findings of the investigation into the allegation made in an online medium that the Certificate of Exemption from National Youth Service Corp (NYSC) that I had presented was not genuine. This has come as a shock to me and I believe that in line with this administration’s focus on integrity, I must do the honourable thing and resign.
