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NEWSCOVID-19: Kwara Govt Threatens Principals, Private Schools Owners
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Principals of public schools and private school owners in Kwara State risk severe sanctions if they fail to adhere strictly to the safety guidelines of Covid-19 as spelt out by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.

The state Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Fatimah Bisola Ahmed, handed down the warning while monitoring the ongoing Basic Education Certificate Examination, BECE, in Ilorin.

Apparently angered by the low level of compliance, she said “let me remind you that Covid-19 is real and is still in our midst.

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Esgee8080
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) Graduate Job Recruitment -
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Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS works to save, protect, and transform lives in need in more than 100 countries, without regard to race, religion or nationality. CRS’ relief and development work is accomplished through programs of emergency response, HIV, health, agriculture, education, microfinance and peacebuilding.

CRS’ Nigeria office is implementing a 2-year, Germany government project entitled, “Stabilization and Reconciliation in the Lake Chad Region (STaR)” in the North East of Nigeria. Through programming in agriculture & livelihoods, social cohesion, community infrastructure and local governance, the project is intended to contribute to the stabilization and reconciliation in the most affected regions of the Lake Chad Basin namely Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in Nigeria, Diffa in Niger and, the Lake Region in Chad.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Graduate Job Recruitment


Location: Nigeria
Job Type: Full-time

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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Esgee8080
Unicef Jobs: Consultant Needed For National Project (apply Now) -
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UNICEF has an opportunity for the office of a consultant for the promotion of National projects that are to be anchored by UINICEF. 

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, Fairness

How can you make a difference?

The international consultant is is expected to undertake the following specific tasks:

Support research conducted by a national expert:
The international consultant will accompany and advise the national consultant based on the ToRs for the national consultant.

Who shall identify and quality opportunities for diversion, alternatives to pre-trial detention, alternative sanctions and modalities for the execution of imprisonment as a sanction within the existing legal framework and practice (identify existing opportunities; analyse their utilization and implementation; collect experiences on ‘what works’; identify gaps, barriers and bottlenecks; identify lessons learnt by new practices to reduce the number of children deprived of liberty in the context of covid19)
Who shall identify and qualify possible ways forward with regard to diversion, alternatives to pre-trial detention, alternative sanctions and modalities for the execution of imprisonment as a sanction in case there is no law reform (how to increase utilization of existing opportunities, and how to implement this) and in case there is a law reform (which additional options could be introduced, and how to implement them).
The international expert shall guide the national expert through the research process and provide advice in particular with regard to the identification of possible new opportunities, the selection of which shall be oriented by the following criteria: the needs of children in Lebanon, feasibility, promising practices and lessons learned in Lebanon (e.g. mediation for adults), promising practices and lessons learnt in other countries with a comparable context/culture, promotion of reintegration and restorative justice objectives.

Advocacy
The international consultant shall meet relevant stakeholders (including high level decision makers, child judges and prosecutors) in order to advocate for the introduction of diversion for children in conflict with the law and for further promoting alternatives to deprivation of liberty at all stages of the child justice process, and discuss possibilities for legal reform in this regard.

Draft Reform Proposals
Guided by the outcome of the research and the discussions with / the recommendations of national stakeholders, the international consultant shall draft recommendations for law reform

Concerning the introduction of diversion at the level of prosecution/court (including definition of diversion; aim; scope of application; pre-conditions/safeguards; diversion options/programs; authorities, roles and procedures; role of lawyer; effect of diversion)
Concerning the reform of existing alternatives to deprivation of liberty, and the possible introduction of additional alternatives to pre-trial detention, of additional alternative sanctions and of new modalities for the execution of imprisonment as a sentence.

Recommendations on Way Forward
The international consultant shall draft recommendations

On other urgent reforms needs in the area of child justice as observed during the consultancy
On next steps in the child justice reform (strategy for way forward)
For the context of this project, the following terms are understood as such:

Diversion: measures for referring children away from the judicial system, at any time prior to or during the relevant proceedings, usually to programs or activities (e.g. warning, community work, victim-offender mediation, family group conferencing, community/life skills programs etc.), see Committee on the Rights of the Child, General Comment No 24.
Alternatives to pre-trial detention: detention from the moment of the arrest to the stage of the disposition or sentence, including detention throughout the trial. Alternatives to pretrial detention may include measures like house arrest, supervision, reporting obligations and similar. For Lebanon, some options are found in Art 110, 111 CPC.
Alternative sanctions: See the list of available alternative sanctions (non-custodial sanctions) in Art 5 Law 422.
4: Modalities for the execution of imprisonment: like suspension, conditional sentence, early release…

Tasks Milestones 1

Tasks Milestones Deliverables Timeline:

Virtual meetings with national consultant and UNICEF before, during and at end of the research

Timeline 1: 3 days (October – May)

Desk review

2 days (October)

Tasks Milestones2

Review of inception report of national consultant/contractor

Deliverables 2

Comments made to inception report
Timeline 2: 2 days (October)

Tasks Milestones 3

Review and comment draft report of national consultant/contractor

Deliverables 3

Comments made to research report
Timeline 3: 5 days (January)

Field Trip 1

Tasks Milestones 4:

Together with national expert, hold a workshop to present findings of research
Advocacy meetings
Deliverables 4

Participation at workshop and advocacy meetings
Timeline 4: 7 days (February)

Tasks Milestones 5

Draft

Reform proposals based on results of research and on advocacy meetings
Recommendations for way forward
Deliverables 5

Draft report that includes reform proposals, and recommendations for way forward

Timeline 5: 22 days (March-April)

Field Trip 2

Tasks Milestones 6:

Present and discuss draft proposal, debriefing, planning way forward
Deliverables 6

Availability to discuss research, outcome of advocacy meetings, and ways forward

Timeline 6: 4 days (May)

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

Minimum 20 years of professional work experience

Degree in law, preferably with a focus on child law, family law and/or penal law
Experience in the establishment of systems of child justice, particularly diversion and alternatives to imprisonment
Experience in engaging in high-level advocacy with governments and State actors, through technical support and advocacy
In-depth knowledge of the UN system, and international framework on diversion and alternatives to detention, as well as child justice
For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

APPLY HERE: https://jobs.doit.com.ng/job/unicef-jobs-consultant-needed-for-national-project-apply-now/
 
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Steph15
Here Is Why You Should Never Ignore Itchy Palms
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Most of us have heard about the superstition which comes as a result of itchy palms. Some say it’s a sign of greed, others say when your palms are itchy, it’s a sign that money will come your way and go further by saying that if your left palm is itching, it means money will come to you meanwhile if your right hand is itching, the money will flow out of your pocket.


Although this superstition may be true, they are also likely to be caused by an irritating skin condition.


 

Some of these skin conditions are:

Eczema.

Diabetes.

Dry skin.

Psoriasis.

Though this supernatural causes of itchy palms may not be known, these irritating skin conditions should be taken seriously. Excessive itching will cause lead to severe wounds. Some ways of reducing these itchy palms include:

Taking baths,

Rubbing moisture on your skin,

Applying cooling agents,

And placing wet cloths or ice packs on the area which itches.

If after doing all these home remedies and your palms continue to itches, you should visit a doctor for proper treatment. 
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Nmaduchidiebere
WTO To Name First Female Boss As Shortlist Narrows
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And then there were two.

The selection of a new director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is entering its final stage. 

The final two - from an initial list of eight candidates - are Nigeria's former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and South Korean trade minister Yoo Myung-hee.

Both are female which means that if members of the WTO can coalesce around one them in the final stages of selection, it will be the first time the job has been taken by a woman. 

Ms Okonjo-Iweala and Ms Yoo both have political and international experience and both were students at American universities.

Ms Okonjo-Iweala, who also has US nationality, has had two spells as finance minister and a short stint as foreign minister in Nigeria.

Much of her career was spent as an economist at the World Bank. She eventually rose to the position of managing director, essentially second in command at the institution. She has been an unsuccessful candidate for the top job at the bank.

She is currently chair of the board of the international vaccines alliance, Gavi.

She has not spent her career immersed in the details of trade policy as some other candidates did. But her work as a development economist and finance minister means she has often had to deal with international trade.

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EndSARS: Police Must Be Accountable To Nigerians ― Buhari Tells IGP
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Earlier Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, on the direction of the President, had presided over a meeting Friday afternoon at the Presidential Villa over the issue of SARS. The Inspector-General of Police, Director-General of the State Security Services and the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission were among top FG officials at the meeting.

The Presidential directive to the IGP is contained in a Tweet from the verified Twitter handle of President, posted Friday evening, in which he also affirmed the people’s right to public protest.

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