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http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Johnbosco Agbakwuru N IGERIA has been rated by the World Culture Score Index as one of the countries in the world that has the lowest reading culture. A recent survey on hours of reading per week per person by the World Culture Score Index showed that India is leading in reading culture with a score of 10.42 hours per week, followed by Thailand with 09.24 hours and China eight hours. Only two African countries of Egypt and South Africa were listed in the survey, with Nigeria not being listed at all. The reason for this poor reading culture according to the National Librarian/Chief Executive Officer of the National Library of Nigeria, Prof. Lenrie Aina is as a result of lack of budgets for libraries. Addressing journalists in Abuja on activities earmarked for the advocacy and promotion of national readership in Nigeria, Prof. Aina stated that limited power for librarians to engage schools to participate in reading promotion activities was also another chal...

http://ift.tt/2q8eajR Chukwudalu Egbejiogu (right) watching keenly as the referee deals with an Abidjan Raiders’ complaint during their match at the Teslim Balogun Stadium… recently. Chukwudalu Egbejiogu’s story reads like that of the rejected stone, who is now the pillar of the building. He is not actually the strongest of them all right now, but every basketball connoisseur, who has watched the teenage sensation believes he is on the way to becoming the next big thing in the game. Chukwudalu Egbejiogu’s name doesn’t ring a bell. None of the journalists at the Teslim Balogun Media Centre that met the players of the ongoing Continental Basketball League knew who he was because he has not done anything worth the ink in the game he loves so much. Here is a boy who was rejected by some of the teams in the Nigerian elite league now playing in the bigger frame of Continental Basketball League. Egbejiogu’s biggest claim to fame was playing in the smaller Division One League, but now he...

http://ift.tt/2qDxCbL The organising committee of the Channels Kids Cup has confirmed its readiness for the first international edition of the grassroots football tournament. This is the ninth edition of the competition, and the first in its international series after schools from Ghana and Benin Republic confirmed availability to compete with 14 schools chosen from the six geo-political zones of the country. The competition is for pupils in primary school under the age of 13, and operates with a philosophy of zero tolerance to age cheats. The tournament has a strict screening policy and the process is repeated on match days to ensure schools comply with rules and regulations of the tournament. According to the chairman of the Organizing committee, Steve Judo, this year’s edition has a major objective of promoting football at the grassroots.‘’It goes beyond playing football. We are teaching these kids the core values that will make them good sportsmen, and also making them underst...

http://ift.tt/2nAmJaD (FILES) This file photo taken on March 15, 2017 shows a malnourished child being weighed by an aid worker for a UNICEF- funded health programme catering to children displaced by drought, at a facility in Baidoa town, the capital of Bay region of south-western Somalia.The United Nations warned on April 11, 2017 that "the risk of mass deaths from starvation … is growing" among people in conflict and drought-hit areas of the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria. / AFP PHOTO / TONY KARUMBA About N45bn, approximately $142m at the rate of N315 per dollar is needed for procurement of Ready To Use Food (RUTF) to save two million severely malnourished children in Nigeria. United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), which made the disclosure, said it has been able to reach about 500,000 SAM children with RUTF and other interventions. UNICEF Nutrition Specialist Bauchi, Philomena Irene, explained during a media dialogue on child malnutrition in Yola, Adamawa State,...