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Nigeria's Kaduna State Defends Plan to Sack Teachers
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The Permanent Secretary at the Kaduna State Ministry of Education says many of the 22,000 teachers facing the sack had not undertaken mandatory training.
Plus an outspoken member of parliament from English speaking Cameroon is placed under house arrest.
And the resident Presidents blame "supermarketisation" for the growing problem of childhood obesity in Africa.
(Image: Children in Kaduna. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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