[Africa Check] No evidence Nigeria’s University of Port Harcourt banned smartphones on campus

A free preschool center in one of the city’s wealthiest neighborhoods raises questions about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to expand universal child care.

[Premium Times] According to her, the approved upkeep allowance for beneficiaries remains N20,000 monthly.

[Daily Trust] No fewer than 150 schools in Lagos are gearing up to participate in the 2026 ChessMasters scheduled to be held on Saturday, 2 May 2026.

[Independent (Kampala)] When the Uganda government opened the school gates in the late 1990s to four children per household across the country, it was lauded as one of the most ambitious education reforms in sub-Saharan Africa.

[Reporter] The Federal Education and Training Authority (ETA) has revoked the licenses of 52 private colleges for failure to comply with regulatory standards.

The United Farm Workers co-founder had been celebrated as an exemplar of civil rights. Then, a Times investigation found extensive evidence of his abuse of women.

[Nigeria Health Watch] Success, 13, did not panic when she got her first period. ‘I was educated early,’ she recalled, ‘I simply used a sanitary pad and carried on with my day.’ In many Nigerian communities, that kind of confidence is still not common for girls entering puberty. Success is a student at a school in the Jiwa community, a peri-urban area in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory...

[Dabanga] Sudanese university professors continued an open-ended nationwide strike for a second day yesterday, with organisers reporting near total participation, as security forces reportedly arrested academics and dispersed protest vigils at several institutions.

After a university in Tehran was struck during the war, Iranian leaders said that the outposts of U.S. schools were “legitimate targets.”

After attacks on several Iranian campuses, Iranian forces warn they could target American universities in the region.

A nonprofit foundation donated $82 million worth of properties in Hudson, N.Y., to the school, which has provided few details about its plans.

A University of North Carolina program was intended to promote civil discourse and ideological diversity. Some of its early conservative supporters say it is doing the opposite.