The winner of the 2020 Active Citizenship in Education (ACE) Award is Khalifa Usman. Khalifa founded and currently lead Khalifa Dankadai Company (KDC), which serves as a one stop capacity building shop for emerging and existing entrepreneurs. He also serves as the project director at the KDC Foundation; a charitable NGO focused on education and community development. He led the KDC Foundation's team in seeking support for the initiative at the level of President Buhari's office. He concluded a memorandum…
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Active Citizenship in Education (ACE) Award is a periodic public recognition and award for young Nigerians living in Nigeria who go above and beyond their civic duties to contribute to removing barriers and improving access to quality education for children and young people in Nigeria. Click here to learn more about the award. We are happy to showcase below the 12 finalists out of the 376 nominations we received. Kemasuode Ebiasuode Bright Bright is a 21st-century problem solver, a teens…
Read moreThe Federal government of Nigeria has reduced education funding. All those in the education sector are following the trend and discussing with the rollout of proposed financial allocation for education funds in 2020. Many educationists and academia find that Nigeria has been facing a remarkable and appealing increase in educational funding every year since 2016. The trend seems to be a year on year increase and by 2019 the funds increased by 10 billion and more. However, there is a…
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“When inclusive education is fully embraced, we abandon the idea that children have to become ‘normal’ in order to contribute to the world. We begin to look beyond typical ways of becoming valued members of the community, and in doing so, begin to realize the achievable goal of providing all children with an authentic sense of belonging.” -Norman Kunc According to Inclusive Education Canada, Inclusive education is about ensuring access to quality education for all students by effectively meeting their…
Read more‘NMI has been an invaluable source of personal and professional growth, its environment is highly innovative and I am eager to see how NMI will impact education in Africa.’- Feride Paspalova Feride Paspalova is Noble Missions’ Organisational Development (OD) Advisor. She is an international representative in the organization, with a degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She began her career as a marketing coordinator in New York City and presently works with the Executive Director in defining the best…
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E-learning is utilizing electronic technologies to access educational curriculum outside of a traditional classroom. Alternative learning methods are now providing solutions to some of the challenges in the world of education today. Some of these challenges are lack of qualified teachers, proximity, no classrooms, lack of learning materials, high cost of education, gender discrimination just to name a few. With the advancement of technology, learning has been made freely available and is used by a large number of the society…
Read moreIt is often said that education is the key to success and that the children are the future of tomorrow. Learning which generally relates to the process of acquiring new skills or knowledge could also be seen as a behavioural change activity derived from formal, informal and semi-formal settings. It is however important that learning, in the area of education should be done in a conducive environment for the students to be comfortable and assimilate properly. This would make it…
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Primary education is the most essential stage of a child’s development since it serves as a preparatory ground for the other two levels of education. Primary education as defined by the National Policy on Education (2004) is “education given in an institution for children aged normally between 6 years to 11 years plus. The Nigerian education is organized into 6 years of primary school, 3 years of junior secondary school, 3 years of senior secondary school and 4 years of…
Read moreWith at least 60% as girls among the over the 10.5 million children out of school in Nigeria, what is next? Noble Missions for change Initiative with support from the World Bank and Accountability Lab Nigeria held a roundtable discussion on empowering girls for a better tomorrow through quality education on the 14th of October 2019. The event which was held at the World Bank aimed at discussing the importance of girls’ education, improving commitments from stakeholders and fostering collaborations…
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We are glad to specially invite you to our 2nd Annual Fundraising Gala to be held on Saturday 7th December at the Police Officers Mess and Suites, beside Treasury House, Plot 55 S.L.A Boulevard Garki 2, Abuja from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM. Why it is important to us It is an opportunity for us to interact with future collaborators, who are interested in what we do and hope to partner with us. It also an avenue for the public…
Read moreWe are pleased to announce that we (Noble Missions for Change Initiative) have received seed funding from The Pollination Project to pilot a new project called ‘Give a Teach’. The Pollination Project is a global funding platform that provides small startup grants to individual change-makers and projects that promote compassion around the world. ‘Give a Teach’ is designed to leverage technology to recruit experienced professionals as volunteer teachers to teach children in low resource schools in their spare time. This…
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The training day was like any other regular session we have had in the past until the ‘how are you lighting the Nigeria torch’ question popped up. I was asked to explain this question in layman’s language by my fellow Accountapreneur, Funke Adeoye, who was moderating the session. It dawned on me while explaining my answer, that in no small measure has the Accountability Lab Incubation program, contributed to lighting up the Nigeria torch. Many times we are all so…
Read moreUrging MultiChoice Nigeria to use the third episode of the TV reality show #Bbnaija to promote education was our major call for actions when we launched the iTakeActions’ platform on the 1st of March, 2018. In our call, we advised that the show should be used to promote the importance of education and that they structure the show in a way in which the participants are obliged to perform social services in the line of education such as weekly volunteering sessions…
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In 2015, I was privileged to be interviewed by HR Revolution Middle-east Magazine about our work at Noble Missions. So I thought I should share the interview here. The full interview can be viewed on their website here. The Interview: HR Revolution Middle-East Magazine: Would you tell us more about the history of NMI? Charles Mentor Omofomwan: I started Noble Missions for Change Initiative – NMI (www.noblemissions.org) in 2005 as a student body called Noble Missions International to create awareness about the…
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