Nigerian Prison Service Wins $20,000 UNESCO Prize

The Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS) has emerged winner of the 2018 UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy due to an education for prisoners programme being run by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Ibrahim Sheme, NOUN’s director of media and publicity, made this known in a statement released on Tuesday.Sheme said Africa’s top Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Institute has been via IFTTT