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http://ift.tt/2rxhD0r The Lagos wing of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) on Monday said the basic challenge of the education sector had been adequate funding. The Deputy Chairman, NUT, Mr Adedoyin Adesina told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the sector was not improving due to underfunding. Adesina said that the country was yet to meet the UNESCO standard of 26 per cent allocation to education and the maximum students per teacher ratio. “The basic challenge of education is poor funding; the country has not met the UNESCO standard of 26 per cent. “The best the country has had is 11 per cent which was last year. “Aside from the funding, the curriculum planners insert subjects in the curriculum without providing specialists for such subjects,’’ he said. Adesina said that government at all levels had not met the expected standard of education in every aspect, aside from the promises made. “For instance, the entrepreneurship that was introduced has no specia...

http://ift.tt/2rNywnc (FILES) This file photo taken on July 13, 2016 shows Nigeria's former military ruler President Mohammadu Buhari (C) flanked by service chiefs and other senior military officers, saluting Nigeria's military during the Army Day celebration in Dansadau, northwest Nigerian Zamfara State. Campaign group Transparency International described corruption in the Nigerian defence procurement sector as "the new diesel for Nigeria's kleptocrats". It estimated that more than USD 15 billion has been stolen, "leaving the military without vital equipment, insufficiently trained, low in morale and under-resourced". Buhari, a former military head of state, honed in on the notoriously rotten defence procurement sector after coming to power on an anti-corruption platform in 2015. As time goes by without a big name conviction, there are doubts about whether a significant dent will be made in Nigeria's culture of corruption. Buhari himself — the dri...

http://ift.tt/2qYJrZW Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates his victory against Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine in the men's round one at the Brisbane International tennis tournament in Brisbane on January 3, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / SAEED KHAN / With the world’s top five occupied by players over 30 for the first time, Rafael Nadal is poised to tighten the old guard’s Grand Slam grip by capturing an unprecedented 10th French Open. The Spaniard, written off as a contender in Paris after a quarter-final loss to Novak Djokovic in 2015 and an injury-enforced pull-out before the third round last year, arrives at Roland Garros as the overwhelming favourite. The 30-year-old has already reached the magical 10 titles this year at the clay-court events in Monte Carlo and Barcelona. For good measure, he also won Madrid for a fifth time, ending a two-year seven-match losing streak against Djokovic in the process. Nadal boasts a sensational career record at Roland Garros — 72 wins and just tw...

http://ift.tt/2rJ7AFl Front row, L-R: Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, Guinea's President Alpha Conde, US President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi pose for a family photo with other participants of the G7 summit during the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7, the group of most industrialized economies, plus the European Union, on May 27, 2017 in Taormina, Sicily. The leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the US and Italy will be joined by representatives of the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as teams from Ethiopia, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria and Tunisia during the summit from May 26 to 27, 2017. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / POOL / AFP G7 countries will on Saturday recognise the deadlock about taking collective action on climate change as US...

http://ift.tt/2pWbCZD Elvis Ramosebudi suspected for planning the assassinations of 19 South African politicians, prominent business people and employees of state-owned entities looks on at the Johannesburg Magistrate Court on April 28, 2017. Investigations by the Hawks (Directorate for Priority Crime Investigations) revealed a coup plot by a group called the Anti-state Capture Death Squad Alliance (ASCDSA) whose hit list allegedly includes President Jacob Zuma. GULSHAN KHAN / AFP A South African court Monday granted bail to a man charged with conspiracy to assassinate top politicians including President Jacob Zuma in an apparent bid to enforce a change of government. Elvis Ramosebudi, 33, allegedly approached private companies to fund his plot before he was arrested on April 26. Calls have mounted in recent months for Zuma — mired in corruption scandals — to step down, and on Friday three former presidents made an unprecedented joint call for dialogue to end the country’s politi...

http://ift.tt/2ozkS6v As at the national level, neither the SPD nor the CDU are expected to achieve an absolute majority in the regional parliament in the state capital, the Baltic Sea port city of Kiel./ AFP PHOTO / Odd ANDERSEN Voters in northern Germany headed to the polls Sunday in a regional election scrutinised over the centre-left’s chances of unseating conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel in September. The vote in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state, comes as a recent surge in nationwide polls for the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) since new leader Martin Schulz was crowned in February faded. Supporters are increasingly fearful that the momentum imparted by their new leader will not carry them into the chancellery, which Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have held against all challengers since 2005. As at the national level, neither the SPD nor the CDU are expected to achieve an absolute majority in the regional parliament in t...

http://ift.tt/2pNcH3V US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson poses with ASEAN foreign ministers prior to a luncheon at the State Department in Washington, DC, on May 4, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged his South East Asian colleagues on Thursday to take further steps to isolate North Korea’s pariah regime. President Donald Trump’s top diplomat met foreign ministers and top envoys from the 10-strong Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Washington. North Korea is under UN sanctions targeting its efforts to develop a nuclear missile arsenal, but Washington wants its Asian allies to do more. Deputy assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Patrick Murphy told reporters that North Korea’s foreign missions are suspiciously large. These embassies, he suggested, are not just diplomatic bases but serve to help Pyongyang illegally to evade sanctions and to carry out other “nefarious acts.” And he cited as an example ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J The government of Osun on Thursday appealed to Resident Doctors in the state to be calm and exercise patience over the concerns raised during their protest early this morning promising to meet their demand soonest, as the finance of the state improves. The source at the government house maintained that the paucity of funds in the state, which responsible for some inadequacies is a fallout of general economic quagmire in Nigeria. According to the source, Governor Rauf Aregbesola is working assiduously to satisfy different categories of workers in the state, as being reiterated in his statement during the workers day on May 1. “You will agree with me that this challenge is a general problem in Nigeria, in which the governor is seriously working to expand the economic coast of the state and improve its finance. “Nobody can fault the passion and love of the governor towards the workers, you could feel his emotion in a statement released on May Day, obviou...

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