#nigerian-education

#nigerian-education

Nigeria is struggling to retain confidence in elections amid dwindling turnout and patchy result reporting. However, whether the vast, unstable country is capable of delivering results in real time is an open question. Following major pressure from trade unions and civil society, Nigeria's Senate on Tuesday reversed its earlier decision to reject plans for the real-time electronic transmission of election results in future.

In a statement sent to DW News, the World Health Organization (WHO)stressed that cooking with biomass fuels is one of the "most overlooked public health emergencies" in Africa. "The smoke generated contains extremely high levels of fine particulate matter (PM.), carbon monoxide, black carbon, benzene, and other toxic pollutants that penetrate deep into the lungs and bloodstream," the WHO statement warned, adding that these exposures could lead to pneumonia in children, chronic respiratory and cardiovascular disease, adverse pregnancy outcomes, and preventable mortality.

He keeps returning to the same spot a small, burned-out shop in the centre of Woro in western Nigeria's state of Kwara. Tanko looked exhausted, his eyes red and swollen, his voice barely rising above a whisper. Inside that shop are the corpses of my friend's son and grandson, he said, fighting back tears. It was difficult to make out the bodies in the blackened shell of the shop.