[ENA] The Ministry of Education said the Digital Ethiopia 2030 strategy is expected to play a decisive role in improving the quality and accessibility of education across the country.

Families of the victims and survivors of the 2022 elementary school shooting in Texas are expected to testify. Jury selection began on Monday.

[Daily Maverick] Funding shortfalls, crowded schools and unequal access to technology threaten learning. Education leaders need to support teachers, improve resources and create safe classrooms for all.

[Vanguard] Former Governor of Edo State and now senator representing Edo North, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, was received by a large crowd at the Upper Siluko Road of Benin-City when he visited the family of Joyce Imasuen, a blind girl, 21, whom he adopted 14 years ago (2011).

[Nile Post] The Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU) has cancelled a Mature Age Entry certificate that had been issued to Kitagwenda County National Resistance Movement (NRM) parliamentary aspirant Robert Mugabe after investigations established that the documents he used to qualify for the examination were fraudulently obtained.

[SNA] – Member of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC), Dr. Nuwara Abu Mohamed Tahir, held separate meetings with Federal Minister of Health Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim and Federal Minister of Education and National Orientation Al-Tohami Al-Zain Hajar.

[SNA] Khartoum, Jan. 3, 2026 (SUNA) – President of the Transitional Sovereignty Council (TSC) and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, General Abdel-Fattah Al-Burhan, made a surprise visit to attend the graduation ceremony of the second batch of mobilized volunteers from Al-Karama (the Dignity) camps in South Khartoum on Saturday.

[Leadership] Jigawa recruits 9,500 guards, Niger, Benue, Kebbi, Kwara reel out fresh security measures

[Leadership] The Ekiti State government has disclosed that public and private primary and secondary schools in the state would resume tomorrow for the second term of the 2025/2026 academic session.

[The Conversation Africa] Corporal punishment – usually referring to adults hitting children – was abolished in South Africa in 1997. The Constitutional Court had already ruled it incompatible with the bill of rights in 1995. In that judgement, the chief justice said that in his view, “juvenile whipping is cruel, it is inhuman and it is degrading” – as well as “unnecessary”.

Lia Smith was a senior at Middlebury College, a transgender woman and, for a time, an athlete on the school’s diving team. But she struggled to feel accepted, and in October, she took her own life.

[Ghanaian Times] The MP, Mr Atta Issah being assisted by chiefs and stakeholders to break ground for work to commence

[Leadership] Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State has reiterated his administration’s commitment to transform the state’s education sector, with plans to recruit more teachers to improve the quality of learning across public schools.

A student-organized “tech fast” at St. John’s College thrust young people headfirst into a world of chalkboard-based communication. (On that note: Has anyone seen Eliza?)

[Nyasa Times] In a major push to strengthen early childhood education in Malawi, Youth Health Network (YHN) has trained more than 300 private Early Childhood Development (ECD) caregivers in Lilongwe, aiming to close long-standing capacity gaps and professionalise childcare services across the sector.