Lilimax:
Don't tell me you fell for him?

RockHard:
26km no be joke. That is more than twice the lenght of third mainland bridge which according to wiki is 11km long.

cc: davodguy (you fit update the mention), thx.

bloodyBLOGGER:
NDA should keep blowing up pipelines while the SE continue protesting. They both should know that others are not disturbed progress-wise. We don't mind welcoming investors from their region down to ours.

PentiumPro:
See the contrast. While some people blessed with natural resources have decided to constitute themselves to miscreants blowing up things and polluting their waters, some others are tactfully attracting development to their region.
Call these people whatever you want, but the Yorubas have mastered the art of living successfully under this contraption call Nigeria and the importance of living peacefully with others even under intense provocation.

2rutalk1:
. keep deceiving yourself. Since the inception of this administration, this 1 Km road is the only project that has been commissioned in the South West. Over the period, this forum has been awash with gigantic projects from Anambra, Abia, Ebonyi etc. The threads are there for reference purposes. Keeping deluding your self.

jstbeinhonest:



Ibo sha....

davodyguy:
smh
I know many of you SEasterners are filled with hate, but i don't even know some of you guys have reading and comprehension challenges.
Road stretch is 26Km, longer than 3rd Mainland bridge

davodyguy:
smh
I know many of you SEasterners are filled with hate, but i don't even know some of you guys have reading and comprehension challenges.
Road stretch is 26Km, longer than 3rd Mainland bridge

johnwizey:
Do you live in ogun? if no, just kip shut

Ndlistic:
Government Primary School Ijoko, Ogun, Where Pupils Pay Teachers’ Salary

Have you ever imagined a scenario where pupils of primary schools pay teachers’ salary? That is the situation in a yet-to-be-approved Government Primary School in Ijoko, Ogun State. It is usually interesting to hear government officials say that education is free in Nigeria, especially at the primary level and the most important section as it is. How true is this saying?

For several reasons ranging from Community Development Association’s (CDA) inability to further maintain facilities (rented building and provision of Chairs and textbooks in some cases) and to manage both teachers’ and pupils’ needs, to their inability to erect a structure suitable for government approval, the school has changed locations for about 4 times.

What now poses as St. Saviour Primary School Olayemi Annex, Oluke Tuntun, Ijoko, Ogun State, used to be United Community Primary School, established in 2005 by the collective effort of the members of Olorundusin (Fadunsin) CDA, area of Ijoko.

However, the farther the school goes the more or less accessible it became for some pupils, and some hopes to attend primary school were dashed. At Basic (Primary) 6, the pupils are merged with an approved school for placement into Basic 7 (Junior Secondary School 1) at the nearest Government Secondary School.

Government at all levels calls it Free Education but Pupils of St. Saviour Primary School, Olayemi pay N600 while their colleagues in the yet-to-be approved annex pay N1600. This is because at the yet-to-be approved annex, pupils pay N500 for teachers’ salary and N500 for school building. The other N600 supposedly paid to government, is N300 for maintenance and N300 for insurance from the government. What then is free? This is obviously not peculiar to St Saviour; it seems to be the culture in Ogun State.



For new intakes in an unapproved school like St. Saviour Annex, the story is slightly different. They pay N2200. This is the regular levy of N1600 plus N100 for a chair and N500 for government approval of the school. Only God knows how long this payment for approval will last before providence comes their way.

The said N600 supposedly paid to government was per session since its introduction until early this year (2014) when pupils now pay every term, which now amounts to N1800 per academic session in an approved school and N4800 for the yet-to-be approved school pupils. Maybe the cost of insuring and maintaining these pupils has increased.

Meanwhile, the curriculum at primary school level is expected to provide a permanent literacy for children from ages 3 and 5, including pre-primary. It also extends to the laying of a sound basis for scientific, critical and reflective thinking, inclusive of equipping children with the core life skills to function effectively in the society. It could not have been otherwise, that is what makes it a primary education to human existence anyway.

St. Saviour Oluke annex has tried to do just that for about 9 solid years now. This poor to-be-public primary school, in its unapproved form, has continued to produce primary school graduates, laying a questionable foundation.

After going through hell, the school now has a structure of four classrooms, which is one of government’s requirements to approve a school as fit to offer public primary education. Just as the Basic 6 pupils occupy a classroom that also doubles as office due to the inadequacy of classrooms, the pupils of Basic 1 also occupy a classroom out of the four classrooms available. On the contrary, Basic 2 and 3 share one classroom, while pupils of Basic 4 and 5 also share a classroom. All these are efforts of the children of the masses to acquire education by all means.

It is therefore logical to best describe this kind of education as cheap and not free education.

It is pertinent for government to want to revive public primary education in Nigeria. If it would remain free as claimed, it does not have to be with bad structures and ill administrative systems. Students of public schools also deserve some dignity and sense of satisfaction for attending government schools. It is expected that whatever government does should be at its best. Many Nigerians, home and abroad have lost hope in the governmentet, there are few who believe that government can and would attend to the very needs of the citizenry.

Thus, schools should be often rehabilitated and equipped with up-to-date facilities including white board markers and library, as well as qualified manpower to mention but few. In the light of that, fresh graduates could be employed in classrooms to both reduce unemployment and rescue government schools. Most of these graduates after National Youth Service often end up teaching in private schools with a stipend in the name of salary. These, undoubtedly will help reposition primary education again in Nigeria.

As vital as it is to equip and manage schools, it is even more important for government to build enough schools across every settlement to overcome the risk of overpopulated few available schools and or the risks of pupils travelling more than 3 kilometers to school. More so, one of the supposed reasons why private schools seem to do much better is because teachers do not attend to too many students which may bring about a hostile teachers-students relationship. One teacher to 20-25 students is not bad. Also important is the need for re-orientation of teachers about their relationships with students.

On the whole, rewards and certificates of recognitions or of honours often boost worker’s will-power to do more at work. Teachers should not be left out of such appropriate motivations and reward for extra efforts to improve the learning of pupils. Education is light as knowledge is power. In the voices of the children of Nigerian masses, government should do the needful to boost the ego and will-power of teachers to improve education. No sooner than these and many other reforms are effected, education will be revived in the country again.

http://thenationonlineng.net/school-where-pupils-pay-teachers-salary/

krazykoons:
Yorubas are welcoming development,positioning their region as the major economic hub in west Africa.
ipob flat.heads are crying,busy fighting Yoruba online.
soon they will pack their relatives inside ghana must go,to tell us they developed Ogun while abandoning their villages

johnwizey:
Do you live in ogun? if no, just kip shut

2rutalk1:
. keep deceiving yourself. Since the inception of this administration, this 1 Km road is the only project that has been commissioned in the South West. Over the period, this forum has been awash with gigantic projects from Anambra, Abia, Ebonyi etc. The threads are there for reference purposes. Keeping deluding your self.

Yes, mega malls. Where is the money to shop there? Anyway, window-shopping is not illegal.

obailala:
This large carnival to commission a simple road?

Debaddest:
Mr MTN PROMO man, God will punish u ar ur generation. Anything u laid ur hand will be curse.. keep defrauding people and remain poor, fool

Olukat:
The money spent on this can be used to fix classroom in schools.
We waste so much money celebrating nothing

PentiumPro:
See the contrast. While some people blessed with natural resources have decided to constitute themselves to miscreants blowing up things and polluting their waters, some others are tactfully attracting development to their region.
Call these people whatever you want, but the Yorubas have mastered the art of living successfully under this contraption call Nigeria and the importance of living peacefully with others even under intense provocation.

krazykoons:
Yorubas are welcoming development,positioning their region as the major economic hub in west Africa.
ipob flat.heads are crying,busy fighting Yoruba online.
soon they will pack their relatives inside ghana must go,to tell us they developed Ogun while abandoning their villages

PentiumPro:
See the contrast. While some people blessed with natural resources have decided to constitute themselves to miscreants blowing up things and polluting their waters, some others are tactfully attracting development to their region.
Call these people whatever you want, but the Yorubas have mastered the art of living successfully under this contraption call Nigeria and the importance of living peacefully with others even under intense provocation.

PentiumPro:
See the contrast. While some people blessed with natural resources have decided to constitute themselves to miscreants blowing up things and polluting their waters, some others are tactfully attracting development to their region.
Call these people whatever you want, but the Yorubas have mastered the art of living successfully under this contraption call Nigeria and the importance of living peacefully with others even under intense provocation.

davodyguy:


Children of hate they are

Olukat:
The money spent on this can be used to fix classroom in schools.
We waste so much money celebrating nothing

precious1967:
show us one dt was commissioned or yet to be commissioned in ur area.

Olukat:
The money spent on this can be used to fix classroom in schools.
We waste so much money celebrating nothing

anonimi:


The same Ogun state where pupils pay their teacher's salary