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Teachers in Nigeria have called on the Federal Government to pay more attention to the challenges impeding the delivery of qualitative education in the country.

The Teachers made this call through the Secretary of the Oyo state wing of the Nigeria Union of Teachers(NUT), Comrade Waheed Olojede in an event to commemorate the World Teachers Day, at the Teachers House, Oluyole Industrial Estate, Ibadan, Nigeria.

''Government should give the desired priority  in the funding of education and the prompt payment of Teachers' salaries.The living conditions of a Teacher determines how far a student can go educatonally. An hungry Teacher cannot impart knowledge. Where a Teacher commits  an error, a generation would be ruined''.

''This is why more attention should be paid to Teachers' working conditions and welfare. Our schools can longer be referred to as educational institutions, considering the blown off roofs and the sight of students sitting on the bar floor, such an environment is not conducive and encouraging. When the school environment improves, enrollment will also improve. Teachers are retiring and there are no replacements. The time is up for quacks to leave the classrooms. It is only in the teaching profession we have all comers. The young one should be prepared to take over'', Comrade Olojede opined.

The Minister of Education in Uganda, Ms Janet Museveni has attributed the increasing cases of sexual violnece in the country to moral decadence.

Ms Museveni made this assertion on Tuesday when she appeared  before the country's Parliamentary committee investigating cases of sexual violence in schools and institutions of higher learning to explain policy undertakings and other measures undertaken to curb the vice.

"Children face sexual harassment at home, in schools and along the roads and since such cases originate from the communities, the MPs are best champions for this fight,"

"As society, we have such problems; it is larger than the ministry. We shall do what we can but we should all get involved.''

"It is very difficult to go into names of people but there was a head teacher who was named and he was reported to police which took up the matter and as we waited for what would come out, we were told that there was no case against him,"

"We find it very difficult to keep such a teacher even when we don't have evidence so what we can do is simply transfer him [but] at times we have nothing to do because where they are transferred there are also people and he will do the same thing,"Ms Museveni.

Cholera has claimed the lives of 61 persons in Yobe state, Nigeria, while the state government disclosed that  there are  906 fresh cases.

However, the Federal Government is yet to intervene to save the situation. Other states in Nigeria are now apprehensive.

The son of Mozambique's First President, Samora Machel Junior has said that his name  has  been excluded from the list of candidates to run on the platform of the ruling  Frelimo party for Municipal elections slated for 10 October.

Machel Junior who made this disclosure during a  press conference, lamented that it was against the ''principles of the party''.

 In addition his bid to run as a mayoral candidate was rejected by the National Elections Commission (CNE) and by the Constitutional Council, while he maintained that a lot of injustice was going on in the electoral process.

He however called on the electorate to participate in the election saying, "The organs of the Mozambican state are sovereign". "We respect the institutions of the state, even though they do not respect us".

"Do not stay at home just because AJUDEM and Samora Machel Junior are not on the ballot paper", he urged. "That would not be good for our democracy. We must all vote. We must all comply with the dictates of citizenship. Only by voting can we make a difference".

The people of Kogi  and several other states in Nigeria are contending with flood that has wrecked havoc. Property running into millions of Naira have been lost. This is addition for an unspecified number of human lives that are yet to be accounted for. 

However, it seems government is helpless about what to do, for the people who are full of grief and bitterness

The people of Kogi  and several other states in Nigeria are contending with flood that has wrecked havoc. Property running into millions of Naira have been lost. This is addition for an unspecified number of human lives that are yet to be accounted for. 

However, it seems government is helpless about what to do, for the people who are full of grief and bitterness

The people of Kogi  and several other states in Nigeria are contending with flood that has wrecked havoc. Property running into millions of Naira have been lost. This is addition for an unspecified number of human lives that are yet to be accounted for. 

However, it seems government is helpless about what to do, for the people who are full of grief and bitterness