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  The Lagos State Government, LASG has harped on the need to make Yoruba Language a compulsory teaching subject in all schools in the state. The state Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, represented by his deputy Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, made this known on Thursday at a stakeholders’ forum organised by the state House of Assembly at Academy hall, Agidingbi, Ikeja. He said the state had concluded plans and that the subject will be taught in primary schools and junior secondary school, JSS 3 across the state. The Governor, who expressed reservations that government’s previous efforts at making the teaching of the language compulsory in all schools in the state were being frustrated by proprietors of private schools, noted that it was important for children not only to learn the language of their environment, but also the culture and the people’s general way of life. “It is very important for every Yoruba child to be able to speak the language very fluently, enriched ...

  Political activist, Deji Adeyanju gives his one-year appraisal of the Nigerian government and concludes that the President Muhammadu Buhari ruined Nigeria in one year. Below are 16 points on why he believes that Buhari is bad news for Nigeria.  The Buhari administration has been an abysmal failure in its one year in office. Having inherited the largest economy in Africa, along with the number 1 destination for foreign investment on the continent, the administration has proceeded to run a number of policies that have crippled business and cost millions of jobs. In addition, President Buhari has taken the most divisive socio-political posturing since the return of democracy to Nigeria. His positions have exacerbated the crises in the Niger Delta as well as the agitation for the declaration of a sovereign state of Biafra. “The economy has gone out of Buhari’s control.” – Lai Mohammed, May 29th, 2016 on ChannelsTV  ...

Seven-year-old had not been seen since Saturday after his parents apparently abandoned him in a forest on the island of Hokkaido as punishment A seven-year-old boy who went missing in bear-inhabited forests in northern Japan after his parents apparently abandoned him as punishment, has been found alive. Yamato Tanooka was found by chance by military personnel in a hut on one of its exercise areas 5km from where he is believed to have gone missing and had sustained only cuts. The doctor who assessed him after his ordeal in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, said: “He was incredibly calm considering he had been missing for seven days. He didn’t panic at all.”    Yamato had been missing since Saturday after his parents said they made him get out of their car on a mountain road because he was misbehaving. He was reportedly without food or water. The parents originally told police their son had got lost while they were out hiking to gather wild vegetable...

A Pakistani teen, Maria Sadaqat has died after a group of men set her on fire because of a rejected marriage proposal. The 19-year-old, who lived outside the Pakistani capital in Dewal, had burns on 85% of her body when she was admitted to the hospital in the Capital, Islamabad on Sunday after a group of men attack her in front of her home. The deceased, who was a teacher at a private school in the village, died Wednesday. Her uncle said that her brutal death came after she rejected a proposal to marry the owner of the school’s nephew. Abdul Basit added that the potential match was a “divorcee twice her age” and said that his niece had resigned from her job because of harassment from the principal, according to The Hindu. Before she died, Sadaqat gave a statement saying that the principal was among the men who tortured her, covered her in gas and burned her alive. Pakistan’s Human Rights Commission has said almost 1,100 women were killed in “honor killings” la...