A witness and Assistant Director of Finance, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Abubakar Hassan, on Wednesday narrated how the immediate past Governor of Kwara State, Alh Abdulfatah Ahmed and his finance commissioner, Engr. Ademola Banu, allegedly mismanaged over N5 billion. The trial is before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin. The erstwhile governor and …

Federal and state governments have been urged to address the problems of out-of-school children through reforms and enrichment of the Almajiri system in Nigeria. Almajiri is an Islamic education practice in northern Nigeria. The call follows the alarming rise in the number of out-of-school children, which, according to a report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), …