World Bank To Invest $100m To Improve Quality Basic Education In Five States In Nigeria

At the lunch of the project in Katsina, the Minister of
Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu explained that the project
was aimed at improving access and quality of basic
education with particular attention to girls and out of school
children. He said the Five States are to benefit from a one hundred million dollar
Global Partnership for Education project supported by the
World Bank.
The States are Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa, and Sokoto.The Minister, who was represented by the Coordinator of the
Nigeria Partnership for Education Project at the
Federal Ministry of Education, Mr. Joseph Owoicho,
explained that the benefitting States will design the policies
based on which the project will be executed in their states.
Representative of the World Bank, Dr. Adekola Tunde, urged
the benefitting states to utilise the funds to improve
infrastructure in primary and pre-primary schools and
ensure equitable access to quality education, particularly at
the grassroots.
In his speech, Governor Aminu Bello Masari noted that the
funds will be utilised for the improvement of teacher's
capacity and the procurement of instructional and working
materials for primary schools.

Lagos Collapsed Building Death Toll Rises to 34

The death toll at the Lekki collapsed building has risen
to 34, as rescue workers on Wednesday

retrieved 16
more bodies from the rubbles. This is just as many
persons, bodies were suspected to still be trapped
underneath the rubble of the five-storey building that
caved in at the wee hours of Tuesday.

Meanwhile, officials of the Lagos State Emergency
Management Agency (LASEMA) have released the
corpse of one Aba Ali to his relatives for burial after
proper documentation.
Ali’s body was handed over to one Gaji Mohammed
who said the family was proceeding to Marecas
cemetery to bury him in line with Islamic rites.

One of the rescue team member

Lekki collapsed 5 Storey Building Number Of Casualties Over 18

In the early hours of yesterday 08/03/2016 the collapse of a five-storey building at
Chisco Bus stop, opposite Oando Filling Station, Lekki
Phase One, claimed the  lives of over eighteen people.
Initial rescue effort had succeeded in rescuing some people alive,
with just a few casualty.
However, that was to change minutes later as some of the
survivors later died from injuries sustained from incident.
Confirming the incident, the South-west Zonal
Spokesperson for the National Emergency Management
Agency (NEMA), Mr. Ibrahim Farinloye, said a total number of people confirmed dead has reach eighteen.
May the souls of the dead rest in peace!

Watch And Download Mungo Park By Korede Bello Produced By Don Jazzy

Watch and Download mungo park by Korede Bello produced by Don Jazzy here https://youtu.be/il7vIMecTaI/beyinblog/08/201f

Abducted School Girls In Ikorodu Rescued And Kidnappers Arrested

The police, in an overnight rescue operation, have freed the
three schoolgirls of the Lagos Babington Macaulay Junior
Seminary School in Ikorodu.
The girls were found at the Igbokuta area of Ikorodu. They
are unharmed and were not molested by their kidnappers.
Three arrests have been made in connection with the crime,
according to the police spokesperson.
A press conference dedicated to the events was held by the
Lagos state government and security agencies at the State
House, Alausa.
Timilehin Olosa, Tofunmi Popoolaniyan and Deborah
Akinayo were kidnapped from a classroom in the Babington
Macaulay Junior Seminary School on February 29.
The abductors, about 15 heavily armed men, reportedly dug
a hole under the fence surrounding the school, started
sporadic shooting and overpowered the security personnel
on the premises. They escaped through the school fence
together with the hostages.
According to initial reports, the kidnappers

demanded a
N100 million ransom, a sum which was later reduced to
N10 million.