Articles from Nigeria
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-05-08 Nigeria: Relief about release of 82 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram
Education International has warmly welcomed the release of 82 schoolgirls from a group of 276 abducted three years ago by Islamist militants of the Boko Haram group in north-eastern Nigeria.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2017-05-01 This May Day, why not try solidarity?
As the occasion to celebrate and reaffirm the value and values of trade unions, from which their principles continue to inspire, today must also serve as a lens to carefully examine our societies and institutions.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2016-10-13 Nigeria: bittersweet news as 21 kidnapped Chibok girls are released
Education International (EI) joins with the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education in welcoming the rescue of 21 kidnapped Chibok girls while urging the focus to return to the 200 still missing.
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Union growth 2016-04-19 Report reveals Boko Haram’s devastating toll on education in northeast Nigeria
A new Human Rights Watch report shows that Boko Haram’s targeted attacks on schools, students, and teachers have affected all strata of life in Nigeria’s northeast, with education as the fault line of the conflict.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2015-10-30 Nigerian army frees 192 abducted children from Boko Haram
Three hundred eight people, including 192 children, have been rescued by the Nigerian army during a raid targeting terrorist group Boko Haram, though none of the 219 kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls are among those freed.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2015-10-21 Nigeria remembers killed and displaced teachers
Nigerian teachers know all too well how dangerous their work has become, which is why their union used World Teachers’ Day to remember the 600 killed and 19,000 displaced among their ranks.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2015-09-07 Nigeria:teacher union pushes for decent financing of quality basic education for all
Teacher unionists from Nigeria have expressed huge concerns over the insufficient financing of universal basic education programmes in the different States across the country.
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Union growth 2015-08-27 Nigeria: 500 Days - Chibok Parents continue search for Daughters
As 27 August marks the 500th day since 273 Nigerian school girls were kidnapped, Education International and concerned citizens the world over continue to put pressure on the Nigerian Government.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2015-07-09 Nigeria: Educators killed in a brutal Boko Haram attack
Twenty-eight primary school teachers were killed after extremists set off a bomb that ripped through a crowded group of civil servants in north-western Nigeria, the latest in a string of deadly attacks this week.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2015-04-14 Nigeria: Education community concerned about girls still missing after one year
Over 270 girls are still missing in Nigeria, one year after their abduction. Educators worldwide have not forgotten about them and reiterate that schools everywhere must remain safe sanctuaries.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2015-04-14 Nigeria: Education community concerned about girls still missing after one year
Over 270 girls are still missing in Nigeria, one year after their abduction. Educators worldwide have not forgotten about them and reiterate that schools everywhere must remain safe sanctuaries.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2014-11-12 Nigeria: College 'hit by suicide bombing' in latest atrocity
EI has roundly condemned the latest atrocities perpetrated against students and teachers by Islamist extremists in northern Nigeria.
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Union growth 2014-07-28 Nigeria: Teachers fighting for security and minimum wage
Teachers in Benue State in Nigeria have finally gone back to work after an eight-month strike in the struggle for payment of the minimum wage. And now teachers in the Kogi State are on strike, as some have not been paid at all for four months.
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-06-03 Nigeria: Commonwealth Teachers’ Group solidarity with abducted girls
The Commonwealth Teachers’ Group (CTG) has joined in the global public outcry against the abduction of school girls in Nigeria.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2014-04-17 Nigerian Teachers’ union condemns abduction of female students
Eight students are still missing after Nigeria’s military rescued 121 school girls two days after they were kidnapped at gunpoint in the country’s north-eastern Borno State. In response, The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has firmly condemned the 14 April abductions carried-out by suspected members of the terrorist group Boko...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-03-25 Nigeria: Education union opposes competency test for teachers
The National President of EI national affiliate the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Michael Olukoya, has criticised the competency test for teachers introduced in Edo State as a scheme “to eliminate teachers”.
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Trade union rights are human rights 2014-02-27 Nigeria: Boys targeted and killed in terrorist attack on state school
EI condemns the reported killing of between 29 and 59 school boys at their boarding school in Northern Nigeria in the early hours of 25 February. It is claimed that the boys were shot or burnt to death by the terrorist group commonly known as Boko Haram (which roughly translates...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 2014-01-10 Nigeria: Education union sponsors professional training
EI’s national affiliate, the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), has sponsored 400 teachers to upgrade their professional skills.
Nigeria: Education union sponsors professional training