ASUU: Unions to shut banks, airports, others over strike
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:19 Jul 2022
The Federal Government and workers’ unions in various sectors of the economy were literally at each other’s jugular, yesterday, over the five-month long strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which has grounded the nation’s ivory towers. Pointedly, the Association of Nigeria Aviation Professionals, ANAP, and
Falana: ASUU Prepared To Call Off Strike If FG Implements Renegotiated Agreement
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:15 Jul 2022
Senior AdvocateIn the circumstance, we are compelled to call on President Buhari to end the industrial action by directing the Minister of Education, Mr. Adamu Adamu to execute the Renegotiated Agreement. The Agreement should be executed as soon as possible in the public interest.” of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has once
MAINTAINING YOUR IDENTITY IN THE CROWD: SILENT GENERALS WITH KEMI FRED ADETIBA (LADY KEMZ)
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:7 Jul 2022
What are those experiences, those defining moments for you as a young person? MRS KEMI FRED-ADETIBA The first experience I had of God is my parent; seeing God through them and experiencing God through them. My parent and their relentless love irrespective of whatever happened to me or irrespective
Basic education: Why Nigeria may not achieve global agenda by 2030—UNICEF
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:15 Jun 2022
The United Nations Children’s Funds, UNICEF, in collaboration with Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office in Nigeria, has said that despite the progress made, Nigeria was not likely to achieve the global agenda of universal inclusive and equitable quality basic education for all school-age children by 2030 if the current very
Establish Workable Social Protection Systems to End Child Labour: Child Labour Day 2022
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:14 Jun 2022
Though the fight against child labour has become more widely spread all over the world, there is still a lot of work to be done. Today, 160 million children are still engaged in child labour – some as young as 5. (United Nations). Child labour involves children being forced to work
BALANCING SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS AND PURSUING A VISION: SILENT GENERALS WITH JUST OMOMO IBE
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:9 Jun 2022
Many young people that are starting in life, tend to have big dreams, and big ambitions; this is who I want to become, and where I see myself in the future. But looking at it in the context of Africa-Nigeria, an average parent gives birth to a boy and says
Varsity unions, FG renegotiation committee sitting ends today
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:8 Jun 2022
The university unions’ and Federal Government renegotiation committee sitting will end today. The PUNCH reported that the Federal Government on March 7, 2022, inaugurated a seven-person committee tasked with the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the other three unions including, The Joint
A CALL TO NURTURE OUR CHILDREN RIGHTLY
Posted By:Benedicta Apeh
Posted On:7 Jun 2022
Every now and then, I believe it is good we sit to reflect and bring ourselves to the understanding and consciousness that the children we see today, perhaps running around carefree and being dependent on us will not remain as such in a blink of an eye. In a few
OUR STORIES: FOH TEENS LEADERSHIP CLUB MEETING FOR JUNE EDITION, 2022
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:6 Jun 2022
Our last teens leadership club meeting which was held on Saturday, 6th June 2022 was awesome. Our teens were taken through a topic, “Cross-Cultural awareness,” helping them understand to appreciate and best accommodate others even when their thoughts, beliefs, and decisions don’t agree with theirs, and be able to
GETTING AND PURSUING A VISION: Silent General with JUST OMOMO IBE
Posted By:Flickers of Hope
Posted On:19 May 2022
For young people starting a journey in their lives, what will you speak to them about how to navigate out of self, out of what they want, to something bigger than them, how can a young person translate? Outside yourself, by yourself, you can hardly catch a compelling vision,
Flickers of Hope Foundation was birthed from a passion fueled by many experiences of the founder. One of which was meeting a young boy in Abuja who had come from Jos to work in order to sponsor his education. He was the 10th child out of 11 children with no funds or help to further his education. His older siblings had resorted to farming but he was determined to be educated which led to his working in order to fund it. The amount of money he needed to work for, to further his education and for which he had to travel that distance was ‘ridiculously little’ and he even had to stay out of school for a session to raise it.
