Sanusi, who gave the advice at a two-day Northern Nigeria Traditional Leaders Conference on Out-of-School Children, in Kaduna, said that the use of only English language in teaching has contributed to low educational development in the country.
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Geoffrey Ijumba, Head of UNICEF in Borno State, stated this on Tuesday in Maiduguri at the opening ceremony of a training workshop organized for the children.
They also commended the military, Borno State Government and Food and Agriculture Organisation for supporting the displaced farmers.
Plan International Nigeria, an NGO, has commended teachers and volunteer teachers in conflict region of North-East for their sacrifices in ensuring that children in the affected areas are educated.
The Senate Leader, Ahmad Lawan, has said that increased socio-economic activities and improved security in the Northeast was an indication that the region was recovering from the excesses of Boko Haram insurgency.
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The President made this known while addressing the citizens in a nationwide broadcast as part of activities to mark the nation’s 58th independence anniversary in Abuja on Monday.
Sheriff-Musa, also former Nigeria’s ambassador to France, made the remarks on Wednesday in Kaduna at the 17th Convocation Lecture of the Nigerian Defence Academy.
Buratai, who spoke while declaring open the 2nd and 3rd quarter combined Chief of Army Staff Conference in Abuja.
Ndume, who made the call when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja, said the call became necessary in view of the pressures from the Internally Displaced Persons and increase in the price of oil to 80 dollars per barrel.
The Transmission Company of Nigeria says the current power outage in some North East states was due to a tripping, caused by a fault on the Jos-Gombe 330kv transmission line.
The Chairman of the five-man committee, John Mathew, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Bauchi on Sunday, said one of the 30 aspirants was disqualified.
The President of NLC, Ayuba Wabba, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Thursday in Abuja.
The insurgents attack the location on Wednesday at about 6p.m but withdrew about 11p. m following superior fire power of the troops.
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Tuesday restated that the Boko Haram terrorists had been “highly degraded” and that there was no resurgence of insurgency in the North-East as being insinuated in some quarters.
The Nigeria Labour Congress has said that more than 2,000 workers lost to insurgency in North East Nigeria were yet to get their benefits from their respective state governors.
The Queen of Hunters in the North-East, Aisha Bakari, on Friday lauded the efforts of the Nigerian military toward restoring peace in the North-East.
Sesugh Akume, the national spokesman of the party, made the call on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos to mark this year’s World Humanitarian Day.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the INEC staff and other participants were drawn from Gombe, Taraba, Adamawa, Borno, Bauchi State and Yobe.
The Nigerian Army Officers’ Wives Association, NAOWA, 81 Division Chapter, Lagos, has donated food items to some widows of Nigerian soldiers who died in the insurgency in the North-East of the country.