Harper Lee, the reclusive author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died at the age of 89. The news was first confirmed by the mayor's office in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. The novelist was born Nelle Harper Lee on 28 April 1926. In 1960, she published To Kill a Mockingbird, a huge critical and commercial success which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. A sequel Go Set a Watchman, was published in 2015. To Kill a Mockingbird sold more than 40 million copies worldwide. Lee was born 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She was the youngest of four children of lawyer Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. She was a guardedly private person, respected and protected by residents of her town, rarely giving interviews. Lee's literary agent Andrew Nurnberg said: "Knowing Nelle these past few years has been not just an utter delight but an extraordinary privilege. "When I saw her just six weeks ago, she was full of life, her mi...
EDUCATION BUDGET 2026 Worth the Hype or Just Numbers? The FG plans to spend N113.7 billion on school feeding and scholarships this year. Plus, TETFund is set to pump significant funds into universities and colleges . Sounds amazing… but wait—does it really make a difference? School feeding programs can improve attendance. Scholarship can change lives But we all know the question: how much actually reaches the students? How much gets lost in delays or mismanagement? TETFund is supposed to renovates , equipped and strengthen our universities and colleges, but are the facilities really improving, or are billions just floating around in paperwork? Take a good look at the sorry State of most classrooms and learning facilities across the nation? How can meaning teaching and learning be effective and efficient in this kind of teaching and learning environment? The truth is: education funding is vital, but only if it’s transparent and accountable . Citizens need to ask qu...
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