Children and Family Archives - Businessday NG https://businessday.ng/category/bd-weekender/children-and-family/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 13:01:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 188198514 Nigeria, We Have A Problem https://businessday.ng/bd-weekender/children-and-family/article/nigeria-we-have-a-problem/ https://businessday.ng/bd-weekender/children-and-family/article/nigeria-we-have-a-problem/#respond Sat, 03 Oct 2020 02:50:36 +0000 https://businessday.ng/?p=465908

A Nigerian child that thinks the favourite sport of Nigerians is karate. And one that doesn’t know the current president of Nigeria, not to talk of the governor of Lagos State. Watching children of middle-class parents play 9ijakids Nigerian Citizenship Game made it glaring that there is a major gap in some of our children’s […]

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Its official – the Government has announced that schools can reopen. As a parent, I received this news with mixed feelings. The part of me longing for normalcy is excited while my analytical side is worried that schools might not be safe enough for my kids to go back. And I have reasons to be […]

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When I was younger, I had lots of imaginary friends thanks to books by Enid Blyton which pushed my imagination to overdrive. There was no limit to what my mind could conceive. One moment I was a detective courtesy of “Famous Five” and “Secret Seven” and another moment something completely different. I was never a […]

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