Eight out of 10 South African school children struggle to read by the age of ten, an international study has found. South Africa ranked last out of 57 countries assessed in the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, which tested…
27 injured, mostly children, in Finland after footbridge collapses
Twenty-seven people were injured in Finland when a pedestrian bridge collapsed near Helsinki on Thursday. Most of those hurt were children after the accident involving a temporary bridge, near a construction site in Espoo next to Helsinki, the emergency service…
Over 50 students hospitalised after smelling gas in school
Japanese Kyodo News on Monday reported that over 50 students were hospitalised after a gas smell was detected at Kamei Elementary School in Yao. According to the news source, around 09:00 a.m. local time (00:00 GMT), a gas smell was…
Dutch court orders sperm donor to stop after 550 children
Dutch judges have ordered a man suspected of fathering more than 550 children through sperm donations to stop donating, in the latest fertility scandal to shock the Netherlands. The man, identified in Dutch media only as Jonathan M, 41, was…
Sexual abuse: Do not blame victims, NGO urges parents
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Mirabel Centre, has urged parents not to blame their children who were sexually assaulted. In a statement issued on its Instagram handle -@mirabelcentreng, the NGO said that parents were usually devastated when they discover that their…
Ukrainian children on return to Kyiv after time in Russian hands
A group of 31 Ukrainian children have been reunited with their families months after they were taken from their homes and moved to Russian-occupied territories. A CNN team on the ground in Kyiv watched as the last of the children…
Why we will not all get married and have children — Tara Aisida
I had a talk with two generationZ’s lately, the conversations were had at different times and without the knowledge of both individuals – male and female who incidentally are Nigerians. Though both lived on different continents, one of them here…
2 missing Missouri children found at Florida supermarket nearly 1 year later
Two kidnapped Missouri children were found at a supermarket in Florida after nearly a year of being missing, police said. The two children had been missing since March 15, 2022, the High Springs Police Department in Florida said. They were found on…
8 school children killed after boat capsizes in Ghana
Eight school children in Ghana’s Bono East Region were killed after the boat taking them to school capsized on the Volta Lake, officials confirmed. National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) told newsmen that the eight, five boys and three girls aged…
East China city offers support to families with multiple children
Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province, began to hand out cash subsidies starting this year to encourage families to have more children. Couples in the city would be receiving a monthly allowance of 600 yuan (about 88.6 U.S. dollars)…
