entitlement mentality © I am Benue 2023

Development, Education, Stories 13/06/2023 by Doose Diana Ukange

Entitlement Mentality

If you aren’t there in my stormy days don’t feel entitled to be included in my merry days! Act in the same magnitude you did when I cried and you were not there when I laugh also. And there’s no way you’ll make me feel bad, I am a good person but the word nice doesn’t and won’t exist in my vocabulary again.

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sexeducation © I am Benue 2023

Development, Education, Stories 31/01/2023 by Ochanya Cynthia Okwoli Adole

How To Teach Children About Sex Education

Growing up as a child, as soon as you get your flow mothers will simply tell you, “if a boy touches you, you will get pregnant” We were not told the main reasons why we can get pregnant or what sex is all about. With that notion, you find girls not wanting to sit close to boys in class because […]

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nubess victor © iambenue 2022

Development, Education, Stories 9/03/2022 by Comr. Agba Lawrence

NUBESS Partners Forward Aid Foundation To Offer Free Sustainable Farming Training And Other Agricultural Benefits To Benue State Students

Today, 9th March, 2022 the Universal President of over 2.7 million Students of Benue State origin, Cadre Ajir Victor, GCBS signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Forward Aid Foundation (FAF). Forward Aid Foundation (FAF), a Non-Governmental organization established under the laws of Nigeria with its office in Makurdi, Benue State has the mandate and goal of improving the livelihood […]

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nubess president © I am Benue 2022

Education 4/03/2022 by I am Benue

NUBESS President Attends 19 Northern States National Presidents Conference

… Charges State Governments to pay Bursary to Students.  The National President, National Union of Benue State Students (NUBESS), Comr. Ajir Victor, GCBS 21st – 25th February, attended the conference of 19 Northern States National Presidents. The forum comprises Kano, kebbi, Kastina, sokoto, Kaduna, Jigawa, Benue, Adamawa, Niger, Borno, Bauchi, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Taraba, Yobe, Plateau, Gombe and Zamfara States. […]

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wukari © I am Benue 2021

Development, Education 2/07/2021 by Emmanuel Yawe

Wukari: Beauty In Its Diversity

The beauty of Wukari is that it has always been multi-ethnic. It was so long before the British incorporated it into the Northern Protectorate in 1900. The current misfortune of Wukari is caused by those who wish to create ethnic purity thereby rusticating select ethnic groups from it. At the time the British established themselves as masters in Wukari, they […]

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Ebiere Akinola © I am Benue 2019

Education, Stories 4/07/2019 by Ebiere Akinola

Don’t Live For Only You; I Was Once A Corper in Benue

This is probably the first journey where I’m not the first to sleep inside the vehicle… Journeys give us time to reminisce. While I proceeded to the park, on a motorcycle, I felt the urge to put my two hands up in the air and do the peace sign with my fingers…but I couldn’t, both hands were holding luggage. As […]

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corporal punishment © I am Benue 2019

Education, Stories 18/03/2019 by Doosughun Takur

Corporal Punishment and School Fees 

This is no lie; the system has failed us.  The system has failed us. We live in a society where the government has abandoned everyone, leaving people to create their blueprint on how their environment should work. People drill boreholes for water, they hire guards for their security, they buy generators, inverters and solar panels for their electricity and in […]

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Benue schools © I am Benue 2018

Education, Stories 3/05/2018 by Francis Ajai, Programme Manager, NHGSFP

Press Release: Home Grown School Feeding Programme

Following the disbursement of the Eight Tranche of payment to cooks participating on the Home Grown School Feeding Programme, the Benue State Office of the National Social Investments Programme wishes to notify cooks, School-Based Management Committees and the general public that feeding for the Third Term of 2017/2018 Academic Session will commence on Monday, 7th May, 2018 in all public […]

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Education, Stories 11/08/2017 by Mrs Grace Akuul, Ag. Focal Person

Benue State Social Investments Programme Office; Press Release

The Benue State Social Investments Programme Office wishes to completely dissociate itself from the activities of some unscrupulous and morally deficient fraudsters who have been going about parading themselves as agents of the Home Grown School Feeding Programme and some influential members of society to extort monies ranging from Ten Thousand Naira (N10,000) to Twenty Thousand Naira (N20,000) from unsuspecting […]

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