Parenting Tips

The Child: Whose Responsibility?

Web News 21 March 2024 283 0

By Olaitan Oye-Adeitan We are now in the age and times when we may really need to unmask the truth of whose responsibility is the child, Government, Society or Parents. Today, some parents blame the teacher for every one of their children’s failures. Society also shares part of it and the Continue Reading

Education

Encouraging Intellectual Curiosity in Children

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By Olaolu Fawole “If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance, very often. Children are natural learners”- Sir Ken Robinson Elizabeth is a six year old primary one pupil. When she is at school, her mother misses her presence and when she is back from […]Continue Reading

Education

Falana Tasks N’Assembly on out-of-School Children

Web News 22 October 2023 298 0

Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the National Assembly to address Nigeria’s worrisome out-of-school crisis to save the future of the country. Falana made the call in a speech he read at a summit on Nigeria’s out-of-school crisis, hosted by the UK charity IA Foundation in Lagos at the weekend. […]Continue Reading

Parenting Tips

Give Carrot, But Don’t Spare the Rod

Web News 20 October 2023 736 0

Olaitan Oye-Adeitan in this piece writes on indulgence as a breeding ground for incorrigibility among children. Perhaps, we should ask, how did we get to this point? How did all these begin, that a child will have the effrontry to frame up a teacher just because the teacher scolded him for a misbehaviour in school? The child […]Continue Reading

Parenting Tips

Parental Favouritism; Foundation for Generational Hostility

Web News 16 August 2023 831 0

By Olaitan Oye-Adeitan Gbenga and Wura(Pseudo names) are siblings.However, for about ten years, their relationship was estranged due to hostilities stemming from their parents’  favouring Wura over Gbenga who is the elder brother. They both lived in the same house, yet they weren’t greeting each other.Gbenga exhibited so much hatred for Wura,while Wura Continue Reading

Foreign

Ukraine War: Mothers Evacuate Children From Russia

Web News 31 May 2023 319 0

A 15-year-old Sasha Kraynyuk has studied the photograph handed to him by Ukrainian investigators, as he recognised the boy dressed in Russian military uniform immediately. The teenager sitting at a school desk has the Z-mark of Russia’s war emblazoned on his right sleeve, coloured in the red, white and blue of the Russian flag. But […]Continue Reading

Lifestyle

Children are greatest assets of society – Gov. Abiodun

Web News 28 May 2023 225 0

By Oluwatoyin Adegoke Ogun State Government says it will continue to implement programmes and policies tailored towards allowing the children to optimally realize their creative and productive potential. Governor Dapo Abiodun stated this at the 2023 Children’s Day celebration held at the Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Onikooko, Abeokuta. The Governor, who Continue Reading

Crime

Report Incident of Abuse, NSCDC Tells Children

Web News 22 May 2023 399 0

By Rasheeda Makinde The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC Osun State Command, has advised students, particularly females, to always expose anybody that abuses them. The Zonal Commander in charge of Zone J, Assistant Commandant General, Fasiu Adeyinka, gave the advice in Osogbo at the first anniversary of the Special Female Squad of NSCDC. Represented Continue Reading

Parenting Tips

Don’t Prepare the Road for Your Children

Web News 14 January 2023 656 0

“Don’t prepare the road for your children, prepare your children for the road.” Unknown Saw this quote somewhere and it brings to mind something that has been giving me a little bit of worry about the next generation, and by that I mean most children aged 10 years and under. I’ve noticed that a lot […]Continue Reading

Health

OBR: Ogun Targets over Two Million under Five Children

Web News 18 December 2022 573 0

Ogun state government has reaffirmed its administration’s determination to ensure that the state sustained its polio-free status. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Tomi Coker gave the assurance during the flag off ceremony of the First Round, Outbreak Response Exercise against Polio virus held at the Iberekodo Primary Health Centre, Abeokuta. Dr Coker who was Continue Reading

Crime

Police Arrest Man For Setting Children Ablaze

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The Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 54year-old father, Mr Ojo Joseph for setting ablaze five of his step children at Fagun crescent area of Ondo town in Ondo State. Reports say that, the man alleged that his wife who is the mother of the children offended him over a little misunderstanding. It was […]Continue Reading

Crime

‘Killer-Mother’ Arrested in South Korea

Web News 15 September 2022 452 0

South Korean police say they have arrested a woman accused of murdering her two children who were found in suitcases in New Zealand last month. In a case that shocked the country, the bodies were discovered by strangers who had bought abandoned suitcases from a storage unit in Auckland. Korean police said, the bodies of […]Continue Reading

Parenting Tips

Stop Raising an Over-Dependent Generation

Web News 7 July 2022 703 0

Ignorantly, most parents in present-day society, handle their children in ways that could make them completely dependent on them such that the children would find it difficult to do things or take decisions on their own when they are capable of doing things for themselves. Attitude That Makes Children Over Dependent 1. You cook their […]Continue Reading

Lifestyle

Guide children on positive use of internet – Radio Nigeria Ibadan ZD

Web News 27 May 2022 685 0

The vitality of the internet and digital devices warrants that children are kept abreast of modern innovations and relevant gadgets. However, parents and teachers should see it as duty to guide their children towards positive use of internet and digital devices. The Zonal Director, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, FRCN, Ibadan National Station, Mrs Bolatito Continue Reading

Lifestyle

Stakeholders Advocate Adequate Welfare for Children

Web News 27 May 2022 884 0

Some Stakeholders have appealed to government at all levels and relevant agencies not to pay lip service to the welfare of every Nigerian child. They made the appeal while speaking with Radio Nigeria on the plight of children in commemoration of this year’s Children’s Day. Oyo State coordinator, Child’s Protection Network, Mrs Oluwatoyin Ogedengbe said Continue Reading

Entertainment

70th Birthday: Veteran actor, Oga Bello gets SUV

Web News 9 May 2022 742 0

Veteran Nollywood actor, Adebayo Salami, popularly known as Oga Bello, was moved to tears as his children gifted him a Toyota SUV for his 70th birthday,on Monday. His actor son, Femi Adebayo, shared the moment on his Instagram page, where his father was flanked by family and friends during presentation. One of the children, also […]Continue Reading

Health

COVID-19: Australia Approves Second Vaccine For Children

Web News 17 February 2022 625 0

Australia’s medical regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, TGA, said on Thursday that it has provisionally approved the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals aged six years and older. According to the report, the decision follows the provisional approvals granted by the TGA to Moderna for the use of the vaccine, SPIKEVAX, in individuals aged […]Continue Reading

Education

Monitor Your Children Properly -Alhaji Adepoju

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Parents and guardians have been advised to effectively monitor their wards in order to compliment teachers’ efforts towards instilling education and moral values in them.The executive chairman, Ibadan North West, Alhaji Rahman Adepoju gave the advice during the final stage of the 2022 Schools Challenge quiz competition for public primary schools at the local Continue Reading

Health

Public Health Promoters Advocate Balanced Diet For Children In Oyo State

Web News 28 November 2021 1152 0

Public health promoters and educators in the University of Ibadan have stressed the need for parents to ensure adequate provision of balanced diet for their children to prevent bacteria conjunctivitis  leading to visual impairment. Speaking on behalf of the public health promotion and education students during a public health intervention held at the Cathedral of […]Continue Reading

Economy

ECOWAS Establishes Partnership To Address Plights Of Street Children

Web News 28 April 2021 779 0

The Clerk, ECOWAS Female Parliamentarians Association, Mrs. Blessing Samuel-Atiri says the Economic Community of West African States has established a regional partnership to address the phenomenon of Street Children in the sub-region. Speaking on “Street Children”, a Radio Nigeria, network programme, Mrs. Samuel-Atiri who relayed her experience on the streets as a child, Continue Reading

News Analysis

Curbing Sexual Maladaptive Behaviour in Children

Web News 8 July 2020 982 0

Sexual maladaptive behaviour is defined as an abnormal pattern of acting out in sexual manners that are grossly out of proportion to normal development. When sex, especially rape, is introduced to children at a very young age, it begins to cause certain behaviours in these children this is now known as sexual maladaptive behaviour. It is a type of […]Continue Reading