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Operatives of the Rapid Response Squad attached to the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a driver for stuffing 15 children into a Volkswagen Passat car. The driver, who was contracted to take the children to a beach, locked four of the children in the car trunk while 11 others were crammed together. This was […]

Some 16 per cent of children aged 11 to 15 were cyberbullied in 2022, up from 13 per cent four years ago, a WHO Europe report covering 44 countries said on Wednesday. “This report is a wake-up call for all of us to address bullying and violence, whenever and wherever it happens,” WHO regional director […]

To adults learning a second language, it hardly seems fair: As they stumble their way through conjugation drills, fret over grammar textbooks, and fill in worksheets on constructing subordinate clauses, their children sop up the language while finger painting at preschool. Within months, correct syntax pours itself out of the tykes’ mouths, involving no […]