Turkish schools to stop teaching evolution, official says

Board of education chairman says subject is debatable, controversial and too complicated for students

Evolution will no longer be taught in Turkish schools, a senior education official has said, in a move likely to raise the ire of the country’s secular opposition.

Alpaslan Durmuş, who chairs the board of education, said evolution was debatable, controversial and too complicated for students. 

To remain one of us, close Al Jazeera TV, Arab states tell Qatar

The Arab States have counselled Qatar to shut down Al Jazeera Televison for good if it wants to remain a part of the influential Middle East body.

This is one of the 13-point agenda handed down to Qatar, which is currently facing diplomatic row with many countries, including its brother Arab states.

The Saudi Arabia-led alliance regards Al Jazeera, the most widely watched broadcaster in the Arab world, as a propaganda tool for Islamists, which they believe also undermines support for their governments.

Boys told not to wear shorts to school, so they showed up in skirts

These schoolboys are fighting their school's dress code, one skirt at a time.

Around 50 boys at Isca Academy in Exeter, UK, protested their school's no shorts policy by turning up in skirts on Thursday, reported by Devon Live. 

The students reportedly got the idea from the school's head teacher, who jokingly suggested they could wear skirts if they like. 

'Why is she here?': the Nigerian herder’s daughter who became UN deputy chief

Mother of six Amina Mohammed rose from a humble upbringing in the Lake Chad region to become a government minister and the UN’s second in command

In a Twitter aside during his election campaign, Donald Trump dismissed the UN as “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time”. For Amina Mohammed, the organisation’s new deputy secretary general, it is anything but.

Attempting to meet some of the world’s most intractable crises and developmental challenges head on is what drives the focused Mohammed, for whom battling against the odds has been a lifelong theme.

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Create Simple Animations With ParaPara Animation

By Richard Byrne

Parapara Animation is a free animation creation tool developed and hosted by Mozilla. The tool is easy to use and it does not require registration in order to use it. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to create an animation with ParaPara Animation. 

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Psychiatric test for traffic lawbreakers begins July 1 –FRSC

The Federal Road Safety Corps has said that it will commence the enforcement of psychiatric test on traffic law offenders in the country with effect from July 1, 2017.

The Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, stated this at the opening of a five-day training programme for 22 FRSC officials on traffic safety for non-motorised transportation in Abuja on Monday.

According to a statement by Bisi Kazeem, the FRSC Corps Public Education Officer, Oyeyemi said the test would focus on four areas of violations including use of phone while driving, beating traffic light and route violations as well as dangerous driving.

The move, according to him, is necessitated by continued violations in the identified four areas despite efforts by the corps to change the behaviour of motorists through education and enforcement.

Oyeyemi said, “We are worried about the continuous use of phone while driving, traffic light violations, route violations and dangerous driving.

“We have invited the commanding officers for a strategic session on Friday. We will give them full directives to resume the referral of all these classes of offenders to various government hospitals for check of their mental state.

Osun revenue agency seals private varsity over tax evasion

The Osun State Internal Revenue Service has closed down the Joseph Ayo Babalola University at Ikeji Arakeji in Oriade Local Government Area of the state over an alleged non-payment of taxes.

Our correspondent gathered   that officials of the revenue agency swooped on the university and sealed the Senate building, the administrative block  and the bursary, but the lecture rooms and hostels were said to have been left untouched by the tax collectors.

The agency has, since three weeks ago, been closing down private primary and secondary schools whose owners are yet to pay taxes and registration fees to the state government.

Apart from the university, which is owned by the Christ Apostolic Church, IRS officials also closed down Wema Bank and Unity Bank in the state over the same issue.