Yobe State government has unveiled plans to construct 50 schools under the Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment, aimed at enhancing access to education for the girl-child across the state. The project, which is funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with the state government, seeks to address challenges hindering girls’ …

No fewer than seven Guinean schoolgirls drowned on Sunday after a pirogue — a long wooden vessel — they were travelling in capsized, the education minister said. The girls were crossing the Niger river in the northeast of Guinea in West Africa to take high school entrance exams that begin on Monday. “We are struck by this bad news that …