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Tanzania’s Education System: President Samia Calls For Review Of National Curricula

Precious Obazee
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Tanzania’s Education System: President Samia Calls For Review Of National Curricula

Tanzania’s education system has received a new boost following President Samia Suluhu Hassan directive for a review of the country’s education curricula.

President Hassan’s directive to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology left education stakeholders optimistic about what has been their long-term plea to the government to enable the country to obtain the required skilled labour force for its industries.

Many longed to see a new education system created to help students do what they are capable of instead of having to follow the rigid curricula or system established since independence.

Speaking at the swearing in of the appointed permanent secretaries and heads of public institutions at the State House in Dar es Salaam yesterday, President Hassan said it was time to review and evaluate the education curricula.

President Hassan cited one of the arguments of Kahama Urban MP Jumanne Kishimba when he asked a question in Parliament (2019) as to why a student should study first grade to higher levels and then return to be a parent’s burden.

Tanzania To Employ 6000 Teachers Immediately

Precious Obazee
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Tanzania To Employ 6000 Teachers Immediately

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has instructed the relevant ministries to fill the vacancies left by more than 6000 teachers, a situation she says is affecting learning in schools.

Speaking at the swearing in of the newly appointed Permanent Secretaries and heads of public institutions at the State House in Dar es Salaam, President Hassan also directed that the management of girls’ secondary schools be further strengthened.

She said she realized that there were around 6,000 or more teachers who had resigned or retired along with various other causes but their vacancies are yet to be filled.

She said that these were not new jobs but replacements so that teaching and learning can continue as planned.

The sixth President of Tanzania instructed the Regional Administration and Local Government to look into it adding that six thousand (6000) teachers should be replaced immediately to provide services to Tanzanians.

The president also said the government was hoping to build 26 girls’ schools by 2025 and urged stakeholders to take action so that the plans will be implemented.

University Of Lagos Commences 2019/2020 Examinations After Lockdown

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University Of Lagos Commences 2019/2020 Examinations After Lockdown

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has commenced its 2019/2020 exams cancelled in the wake of lockdown occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic.

However, students are protesting the one-week time frame scheduled for the examination calling on management to give more time.

A circular released on the school’s website showed the new measures put in place by the school for the examination.

In the revised academic calendar, the first semester examination for the 2019/2020 session is scheduled to hold between March 22 and April 30, 2021.

While 100 and 200 level students would take their exams virtually from March 29 to April 7, 300 level students would take physical exams from April 8 to 16; 400 to 500 level students would also take their exams physically between April 19 and 24.

Similarly, examination in core courses in the Faculty of Education would be physical and would hold between April 26 and 30.

Aid Flows Into Cyclone-Struck Indonesia As Death Toll Rises

Zoe Maven
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Aid Flows Into Cyclone-Struck Indonesia As Death Toll Rises

Two Indonesian navy ships packed with aid have arrived in a cyclone-ravaged section of the archipelago, with the disaster’s death toll rising to nearly 180 people.

The vessels docked in hard-hit Lembata and Adonara island with hospital ships also en route eastern Indonesia where thousands have been left homeless and dozens are still missing.

The navy vessels are packed with food, including rice and noodles, as well as blankets and other materials for some of the region’s more than 20,000 evacuees.

Torrential rains from Tropical Cyclone Seroja, turned small communities into wastelands of mud and uprooted trees, causing thousands to flee to shelters amid widespread power blackouts.

Sunday’s storm swept buildings in some villages down a mountainside and to the shore of the ocean on Lembata, where one of the aid ships arrived Thursday.

A regional naval base chief Kompiang Aribawa said another ship will arrive later today carrying military personnel who will be deployed to help people in the aftermath of the disaster.

Earlier, Indonesia’s disaster agency chief said a cargo plane had left Jakarta for the disaster-struck region with about 100,000 face masks, virus test kits, as well as prepared food and blankets for survivors.

Rescuers have spent the past few days using diggers and shovels to extract mud-covered corpses from the debris.

Fatal landslides and flash floods are common across the Indonesian archipelago during the rainy season.

UK’s Johnson Condemns Violence In Northern Ireland

Zoe Maven
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UK’s Johnson Condemns Violence In Northern Ireland

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has expressed deep concern by the violence, which has injured dozens of police officers in Belfast Northern Ireland in recent days.

The violence on Wednesday took place near the Shankill Road in west Belfast near a so-called “peace wall” dividing the community from the Irish nationalist stronghold of the Falls Road.

Crowds of youths in a pro-British area of Belfast set a hijacked bus on fire and attacked police with stones in the latest of a series of nightly outbreaks of violence that began last week.

The violence comes amid growing frustration among many at new trade barriers between Northern Ireland and the rest of the United Kingdom resulting from Britain’s exit from the European Union.

The Police Service of Northern Ireland has said some of the violence was influenced by what they call criminal elements who helped to orchestrate the attacks.

In a Twitter post Boris Johnson wrote that the way to resolve differences is through dialogue, not violence or criminality.

The leaders of Northern Ireland’s largest political parties Sinn Fein and the DUP both condemned the violence, pointing in particular to the bus hijacking and an attack on a photojournalist from the Belfast Telegraph newspaper.

Bill To Legalise Euthanasia Goes Before French Parliament

Zoe Maven
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Bill To Legalise Euthanasia Goes Before French Parliament

A bill to legalise euthanasia has gone before a deeply divided French parliament, with right-wingers planning to torpedo any vote with thousands of amendments.

If the draft law were to pass, France would become the fifth European Union country to decriminalise assisted suicide, after the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain.

The bill was brought by Olivier Falorni, deputy for the parliamentary splinter group Libertes et Territoires (“Freedom and Territories”)

Olivier Falorni argues that the law will end what he has described a national “hypocrisy” because French residents often travelled to Belgium or Switzerland for assistance in suicide.

He added that French doctors already secretly performed an estimated 2,000 to 4,000 acts of euthanasia every year.

Under the current law, deep sedation of patients who suffer from incurable illnesses, is allowed but not to end their life, or help them end their own life.

Legalising euthanasia is supported by many deputies, including a majority of President Emmanuel Macron’s own party, the LREM although neither Macron nor his government have weighed in on the debate.

In the meantime, Deputies hostile to euthanasia have filed 3,000 amendments ahead of the debate which is likely to slow down Thursday’s proceedings.

While some parliamentarians are opposed to euthanasia on ethical or religious grounds, others have said the subject is too important to be handled in just one day of National Assembly proceedings.

New Talks On Somalia Election Deadlock Collapse

Zoe Maven
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New Talks On Somalia Election Deadlock Collapse

Another round of talks to resolve Somalia’s election deadlock has ended without a deal in Mogadishu with Information Minister Osman Dubbe blaming leaders of Puntland and Jubbaland regional governments for the failure of the talks.

At a press conference Dubbe said leaders of Somalia’s regional States Puntland and Jubbaland are not willing to hold elections based on the 17th Sept. agreement and the 16th Feb. agreement.

The negotiations collapsed as the international community pressed Somali President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo and leaders of federal states to reach a deal.

Some issues of contention include the forming of the electoral commission, selecting commission members for the breakaway region of Somaliland, and the crisis in the Somalia-Kenya border region of Gedo.

Critics have accused President Mohammed Abdullahi Farmaajo who is seeking a second term, of delaying the election to extend his current mandate which officially expired in February.

The electoral impasse has plunged Somalia into a political crisis and there are concerns that terrorist group Al Shabab might exploit the disagreement to further undermine the fragile security of the Horn of Africa.

Britain Grants Hong Kong Democracy Activist Political Asylum

Zoe Maven
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Britain Grants Hong Kong Democracy Activist Political Asylum

Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law said he has been granted political asylum in Britain, where he arrived last July after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on his home city.

Speaking on Twitter late on Wednesday, Nathan Law After said after several interviews in four months, the Home Office had informed him that his asylum application had been approved.

Analysts say the latest development is likely to stoke tensions between London and Beijing as Britain has opened its doors to potentially over five million residents of Hong Kong.

He said he is wanted under the national security law which shows he is exposed to severe political persecution and is unlikely to return to Hong Kong without risk.

Britain on Thursday pledged 43 million pounds to help would-be Hong Kong residents find jobs, houses and schools under the initiative allowing millions to resettle.

London estimates that over 300,000 Hong Kong residents could emigrate over the next five years, and Bank of America expects Hong Kong residents moving to Britain could trigger capital outflows of $36 billion in 2021.

Britain has accused China of multiple breaches of an agreement stating that China’s security law has undermined Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy.

China has repeatedly told Western powers to stop meddling in Hong Kong’s affairs.

Myanmar’s Former UK Envoy Locked Out Of Embassy

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Myanmar’s Former UK Envoy Locked Out Of Embassy

Myanmar’s ambassador in London Kyaw Zwar Minn has spent the night in his car after saying he was locked out of his embassy.

The ambassador was seen standing on the street outside the embassy in London’s Mayfair speaking to officers from the Metropolitan Police force who were reportedly called to stop staff re-entering the building.

Minn said staff were ordered to leave the building by Myanmar’s military attaché on Wednesday night, and he was told he was no longer the country’s representative.

Myanmar’s military took over the country in a coup on 1 February, fueling weeks of protests and escalating violence and Kyaw Zwar Minn had called for ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to be released.

More than 500 people have been killed so far as pro-democracy protesters are calling for a return to power of elected leader Ms Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

Kyaw Zwar Minn described Wednesday’s events as a kind of coup, in the middle of London. Meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has condemned the actions as “bullying”.

Protesters gathered outside the embassy after news that the ambassador had been locked out emerged.

In March, Kyaw Zwar Minn called for the release of Suu Kyi and told the News correspondents that Myanmar was “divided” and could be at risk of civil war.

He insisted that his remarks were not a betrayal of the country and said he was standing on middle ground. The Myanmar government later issued a statement saying he was recalled.

Striking Judiciary Workers Lock Out Judges, Lawyers In Kwara

Henry Williams
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Striking Judiciary Workers Lock Out Judges, Lawyers In Kwara

The Kwara State branch of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN), on Wednesday continued the strike embarked upon to press for the actualisation of judicial autonomy.

There was a gridlock around the state judiciary complex as the executives of JUSUN blocked all entrances to courts to enforce the industrial action.

The Chairman of the Union, Comrade Ibrahim Sambo, while speaking to our Correspondent, said the union is unhappy that while President Muhammadu Buhari has passed into law, the financial Judiciary autonomy bill, state governments have failed to implement it.

They hold that What is happening now is the quest to have true judicial autonomy saying that the president has approved, in the executive order number 10, stating that autonomy should be given to state judiciaries.

However since the order was given, nothing has changed and they now believe the only way to get government to listen is if they embark on industrial action.

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