PHOTO: imeela.com Education is in dire straits in Nigeria. More than 10 million children are out of school across the nation. The federal budget always falls short of the requisite 26 per cent recommended by UNESCO for developing nations. It is a well-known fact that “education is power,” but Nigeria continues to treat the subject of education with abject levity. Read More

President Donald Trump is donating his second-quarter White House salary of $100,000 to the Department of Education, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday. “It’s that time again, as many of you have probably noticed, … for us to announce where the president will be donating his quarterly salary,” Sanders said. “This quarter the president will be donating his salary Read More

Nobody can tell exactly what Senate Republicans are doing with Americans’ health care, largely because they keep lying about it. Five days ago, John McCain called on senators to pay more heed to governors’ words of caution about steep Medicaid cuts. Then he made a dramatic return to the Senate floor, denounced the entire process through which the Senate health care bill Read More

The singer said the meeting was “incredible.” Rihanna met with French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron yesterday (July 26) to talk about global education. The singer is the global ambassador for Global Partnership for Education as well as founder of the Clara Lionel Foundation, a nonprofit organization that funds education and health programs for impoverished communities across the Read More

This is the web version of VoxCare, a daily newsletter from Vox on the latest twists and turns in America’s health care debate. Like what you’re reading? Sign up to get VoxCare in your inbox here. The Senate continued its Obamacare repeal debate Wednesday. It’s actually still happening, and you can stream it on C-SPAN. Here are the three main things Read More

Many real estate biggies in Noida and Greater Noida sighed with relief as Uttar Pradesh’s Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath launched the online RERA registration platform,  www.up-rera.in in Lucknow today. The launch of this platforms means that now the registered builders can promote their upcoming and ongoing real estate projects on the government portal. The biggest advantage of a platform like this for Read More

Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports,Vijay Goel and Cricketer Gautam Gambhir spoke about the importance of nutrition for a healthy lifestyle at Fit India Conclave Goel said, “Today many citizens of our country need to be aware of fitness and the Ministry is constantly working towards it.  ‘Stay Fit India’ is an apt slogan for this initiative. If we Read More

Central confinement chamber of C-2U, a plasma confinement experiment comprising 10,000 engineering control tags and 1,000 physics diagnostics channels at Tri Alpha Energy’s research facility in California, US. The algorithm will cut the time it takes to work out best possible options to form plasma from a month to just a few hours. Photograph: Courtesy of Tri Alpha Energy Inc. Read More

Accor, the French hotels group, is bolstering its presence in the home-sharing market by bolting new acquisitions on to its Onefinestay brand to tackle the threat posed by Airbnb and other online booking services. Accor, Europe’s largest hotelier by room numbers, acquired Onefinestay, the UK-based luxury home rentals site, in a deal worth up to €148m last year. On Wednesday, Accor plans to Read More

RALEIGH (WTVD) — Budget cuts mandated by the General Assembly led the State Board of Education to approve $2.5 million in reductions to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) on Tuesday.Public education advocates say the cuts will most negatively affect the state’s smaller, more rural school districts who depend on DPI to provide personnel training and support. The board’s unanimous Read More