SUB Themes:
1.ICT, Gender and Role of Education Planner and Manager
2.I.T and Implication for language education
3.Impact of counseling to women/youth education through ICT
4.Adult education and ICT: towards development and women/youth education

Vice President Atiku Abubakar has taken the case against his indictment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Federal Government Admini-strative Panel of Inquiry to court, asking that it be quashed because it had no basis in law.

Follow the link for a message in solidarity with communities in the Niger Delta region, submitted at a public forum organised by ERA in collaboration with TWN Africa.

Campaign for Accountable Governance through Elections, (CAGE) has requested the Code of Conduct Bureau to urgently publish the names of current public officials who have failed to comply with asset declaration requirements under the 1999 Constitution.

An initiative, which is a forum for women activists working in the area of women rights and development seeks essentially to empower the Nigerian women folks politically, especially in the forth-coming national elections slated for 2007 was launched by the Women Unity Forum (WUF) in Lagos on September 11.

The new Nigerian website is devoted to parenting and family issues including adolescent sexuality, safe motherhood, girl child education and HIV/AIDS. The website is currently undergoing a test run.

Human traffickers make good business taking poorly educated girls from Nigerian villages to toil as domestic workers in the sprawling urban throb of Lagos. But the girls, some as young as five years old, see little or none of their earnings.

Canoes glide through the black, stinking water as children run along an overhead maze of precarious walkways through Makoko, a growing slum on stilts in Nigeria’s sprawling commercial capital, Lagos. Many of the original residents of Makoko are fishermen attracted from across the region to hopes of a better life in Nigeria, West Africa’s oil-rich economic powerhouse.

Ethiopia has asked the Nigerian government to allow it engage the services of 600 Nigerian teachers, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, Olusegun Akinsanya said here Tuesday (September 5). Akinsanya told journalists in Addis Ababa, the capital that the Ethiopian government wanted to recruit the teachers to teach in the 12 new universities being constructed throughout the country.

Some Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees in Nigeria have attributed their seeming reluctance to return home to inadequate incentives, loss of loved ones, insecurity back home and pursuit of education. Since 2004, when the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, launched a voluntary repatriation programme for the thousands of refugees, barely 670 of them have returned home.

Armed soldiers shielded behind sandbags stand guard on both ends of the bridge over the River Niger and into Onitsha, a sprawling trading town of more than one million people in southeastern Nigeria. Vehicles entering the city are subjected to searches, ostensibly for weapons and signs of membership in the separatist Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), blamed for a recent series of violent incidents in the city.

Ernest Ndukwe, executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has described Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) as the engine that will drive telephony in developing countries like Nigeria. Speaking at the first day of the three-day VoIP forum in Lagos, Ndukwe said the commission had recently conducted a study into the Nigerian telecommunications market.

Security operatives in an early morning operation, yesterday, raided the Asokoro District, Abuja office of the National Development Project (NDP), the political resource centre of Vice President Atiku Abubakar, seizing an American information technology (IT) expert there. He was, however, released a few hours later.

Nigeria has announced that elections to choose a successor to President Olusegun Obasanjo and a new national assembly will be held on 21 April 2007. Voting for state governors and regional assemblies will take place on 14 April.

Two Nigerian state legislators have been arrested by anti-corruption officials, after a dramatic siege at the Federal Court in the capital. Speaker of Plateau State Assembly Simon Lalong and his deputy Usman Musa went to the court after being confronted by officials in Abuja.

On Tuesday 22nd August 2006, history was made by the Nigerian Senate following its first reading of an Executive Bill for the domestication of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

Bishop Kodji, a small fishing and canoe carving island in the Atlantic Ocean off Nigeria's sprawling commercial hub of Lagos, has become the first village to be electrified under the Lagos State government's pilot solar energy project. Before setting up the project, the village, with a population of 5,000, had not known electricity since its existence.

Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about death threats against Wole Olujobi, a political affairs editor with the privately-owned Daily Independent newspaper, who suspects the governor of the southwestern state of Ekiti of being responsible for this attempt to intimidate him.

Officials from Nigeria and Cameroon have held a joint ceremony in the disputed oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to mark its transfer to Cameroon. Nigerian troops completed their withdrawal and transferred control of the northern part of the territory. The rest of the peninsula will remain under Nigerian civil administration for the next two years, in line with an International Court of Justice ruling.

The successful applicant will manage a multi-state programme to improve the coverage of routine immunisation in northern Nigeria. S/he must have a Masters Degree or MBBS, plus advanced public health training and 10 years experience working with ministries of health in Africa.