25 July 2026

Education Rights

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Unions

 ERC Slams Students Over Dangote Protest

 The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Oyo State Chapter, has frowned on the National Association of Oduduwa Students (NAOS), which recently held a protest in support of the Dangote Refinery. The protest, which took place in Ibadan on October 7, 2025, backed the refinery’s management amid a dispute with oil workers’ unions over the sack of

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Blind Students Protest Closure of FARMCRAFT School in Lagos
News

Blind Students Protest Closure of FARMCRAFT School in Lagos

Blind students and Lagos residents on Monday staged a protest over the closure of the Nigeria FARMCRAFT Centre for the Blind at Airport Road, Ikeja, for over a year now. The demonstrators called for the immediate reopening of the school and urged President Bola Tinubu to intervene. In a video posted on X, many blind

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Universities

UI Professor Urges Constitutional Backing for Free Basic Education Amid Rising Out-of-School Crisis

On May 15, 2025, Professor Osifunke Sekinah Ekundayo of the University of Ibadan delivered the institution’s 580th Inaugural Lecture, titled “Speaking Up for the Numerous Voiceless Children Shut Out of School in Nigeria: An Endless Odyssey?” at Trenchard Hall.  She called for a constitutional amendment to make free and compulsory basic education a legally enforceable

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