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[Daily Trust] About 300 school owners across Abuja have been trained on strategies to adopt for safety of pupils when schools are eventually reopened in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). via EDUCATION

[Daily Trust] Port Harcourt -- An indigene of Rivers State, Ike Holy, has won the British Council's Cambridge Learners Award for 2020. via EDUCATION

[Daily Trust] Kano -- The extended closure of schools over the COVID-19 pandemic has seen many parents struggling to cope as their bored children pressure them over resumption. Our correspondent in Kano captures the tension between parents and their children during this period via EDUCATION

[Africa Renewal] In some parts of Botswana, parents looking for regular updates on their children progress in school, or teachers trying to quickly get in touch with parents will no longer need to wait for the periodic parents-teachers' meetings or the end of a term to find out."A connected smartphone is all it will take," Tiyapo Spinks Salani, tells Africa Renewal, in a telephone interview. via EDUCATION

[allAfrica] The passing of laws to end child marriage resulted in blocking thousands of child marriages and enabling second chance education for girls. However, these gains made over the years are in jeopardy in the age of COVID-19. via EDUCATION

[Nairobi News] Up to 70 per cent Kenyans are opposed to reopening of schools in September, for fear of a spike in coronavirus infections among children. via EDUCATION

[allAfrica] AllAfrica Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Amadou Mahtar Ba speaks with Daniel Hailu, the Regional Head for Mastercard Foundation based in Nairobi, Kenya, as part of the Dialogue for the Future - a series of interchanges by AllAfrica with prominent leaders. Hailu, who is in charge of strategic implementation and stakeholder engagement in eastern and southern Africa, outlines the efforts by Mastercard Foundation to address the spread of COVID-19 in Africa. via EDUCATION

[DW] The coronavirus pandemic has relaunched a debate on the treatment of children in Koranic schools in West Africa. The pandemic has made them more vulnerable. But very little has been done so far to support them. via EDUCATION

[Daily Trust] Benin -Private schools in Edo State have resorted to social networking apps for online lessons during the lockdown restrictions. via EDUCATION

[allAfrica] Washington, DC -Almost 50 responders from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners arrived today in Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), along with 3600 doses of Ebola vaccine and 2000 cartridges for lab testing, WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told media in an online briefing. via EDUCATION

[Nation] Most public universities have cancelled or postponed their end of semester examinations as they struggle to give online lessons under a Covid-19 lockdown. via EDUCATION

[Nation] Education stakeholders are once again at loggerheads on when schools should reopen as the Covid-19 Education Response Committee races against time to present its report. via EDUCATION

[African Arguments] In their response to the pandemic, state governments have singled out Qur'anic schools not for epidemiological but political reasons. via EDUCATION

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Thousands of Ethiopian migrants deported from the Middle East are being quarantined in universities and schools via EDUCATION

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] * Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. via EDUCATION

[Premium Times] The Champlain College Board of Trustees on Tuesday announced Benjamin Ola. Akande as the ninth President of Champlain College. Mr Akande will assume the role effective July 1, 2020. via EDUCATION

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Nairobi -Tanzania has one of the world's highest teen pregnancy rates amid widespread sexual violence and poverty via EDUCATION

[Premium Times] Some Almajiri Tsangaya schools have defied the Kano State Government directives on closure of schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the state. via EDUCATION

[Daily Trust] The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has declared an indefinite strike. via EDUCATION

[Daily Trust] More Nigerian states have announced the shutting down of schools as part of preventive measures against the spread of coronavirus. via EDUCATION