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emiye: Pardon their ignorance, although for some of them it is not ignorance but "bad belle". The education reforms is already working in osun state, as osun state is now number 1 of all 36 states in primary school enrolment.
http://www.punchng.com/news/osun-tops-primary-school-enrolment-bureau/.

he that is down need fear no fall, the state has less than 2% pass rate in WASSCE (where pass is at least 5 credits maths & english inclusive) ,
the only way now is up. I am so certain of this.

The Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics has said Osun State ranks highest in primary school enrolment in the country.

A report by the bureau in Wikipedia, puts Osun children’s at in primary school enrolment between 70 and 80 per cent. The report by Wikipedia was posted on July 8, 2013.

According to the report, no other state in the country falls within Osun’s category while Ekiti, Delta, Cross River, Enugu states rank between 60 and 70 per cent.

Ondo, Lagos, Rivers, Bayelsa, Abia rank between 50 and 60 per cent, while Kebbi and Yobe states were on the lower rung of the ladder, with 10 per cent enrolment.

Commenting on the enrolment with some journalists on Monday, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State, attributed the feat to God and commitment.

He said, “We thank God that our efforts are being recognised and appreciated. The Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics has published in its July, 2013, edition that Osun tops in primary school enrolment across the country.”

Emmadani: Is this suppose to b a surprise?Those imgbati-imgbati girlz dey neat b4?...!Sickness has kept me out of nairaland 4 almost a week,but only to log into nairaland 2day and see this disgusting poo.Na dis kind thing una wan make i use recover...? *falls down 4rm hospital bed and faints*

tobechi20: Most yorubas dont act before they act

emmasege: Osun e ronu o!. I hope this man wouldn't have destroyed Osun beyond remedy by the time he would have looted all that is "lootable". Why re-distribute students against their choices knowing fully well that some of them must have chosen the nearest school to their home or for some other reason. What pains me the most is the colossal waste of public resources that is involved and given the fact that this 4-5-3 system will definitely be reversed by some other government someday.
I am also curious to know if the students will still be writing primary school leaving certificate since they are now on 4-5-3 as against the 6-3-3 educational system.
Aregbesola- omo a t'Eko wa b'Osun je.

Dpeacemaker101: @MOD,Please why the hidden post. So education is not worth it in Osun and after you people will sit and tell me Your APC crap. Well, I only have pity for these little ones,and the government should remember that EDUCATION is the highest investment a state can give a child. These APC people are just group of inconsiderate Agberos, your children will definitely ask you questions some day.

Rivers State had also received N400 million for its outstanding implementation of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme, using the 2009 Federal Government/UBE intervention fund. President Goodluck Jonathan presented the cheque to Amaechi in Abuja, during the “Good Performance Award to State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBS), organized by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).

Adamawa state, which came second, got a cheque of N300 million, while Kebbi state emerged third.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=124954:rivers-blazes-the-trail-gives-appointment-letters-to-13000-teachers&Itemid=610

CONSTITUTION OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
1999


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Schedules

Fourth Schedule

Functions of a Local Government Council

1. The main functions of a local government council are as follows:

(f) construction and maintenance of roads, streets, street lightings, drains and other public highways, parks, gardens, open spaces, or such public facilities as may be prescribed from time to time by the House of Assembly of a State;

http://www.waado.org/nigerdelta/ConstitutionalMatters/1999Constitution/FourthSchedule.html

kelvincoll: Forsaken by the Govt?
To think this barely an 8-10hrs rainfall, imagine if it is 7days rain.

talktimi: i take everyone seriously because there's always an opportunity to learn new things everyday from the people we come across irrespective of tribe. The op was wrong turning this into anotha SW/SE tribal e-war, it does more harm than good even if its for fun . Its also wrong for otherwise matured minds to condescend to his level like kids when reporting and getting him banned would have been a more effective option. But then again, its a free world

Dpeacemaker101: @MOD,Please why the hidden post. So education is not worth it in Osun and after you people will sit and tell me Your APC crap. Well, I only have pity for these little ones,and the government should remember that EDUCATION is the highest investment a state can give a child. These APC people are just group of inconsiderate Agberos, your children will definitely ask you questions some day.

Rivers State had also received N400 million for its outstanding implementation of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme, using the 2009 Federal Government/UBE intervention fund. President Goodluck Jonathan presented the cheque to Amaechi in Abuja, during the “Good Performance Award to State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBS), organized by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).

Adamawa state, which came second, got a cheque of N300 million, while Kebbi state emerged third.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=124954:rivers-blazes-the-trail-gives-appointment-letters-to-13000-teachers&Itemid=610

PointB: We the good people of Nairaland duly support the new PDP 8 point agenda.

We urge the President to hasten the implementation of these beautiful ideas starting with point #5:


by implementing full resource control such that the state get 87% of their resources to enable "attend to the numerous responsibilities placed on them" while the central government get 13%. Who said the new PDP are entirely bad or selfish. Good things do sometimes come from bad people.

#ResourceControlNow

PointB: Still on the issue of resource control, I like the idea of the 13% derivative principle. However, when Resource Control become the practice, may I propose that the state keep 87% percent of what they produce and give the central government 13%.


That's a fair deal.

Gbawe: Assuming we have resource control as the deceitful Insincere9gerian bamboozles some posters with, is it the States that will then renovate and our federal roads deemed some of the worst and least motorable in the World currently?

Does everything now start and end in States or is it now wrong, because some attempt to decieve others via shouting "resource control", to demand that the FG is up and doing in relation to its duties and responsibilities? How is the need for the FG to be far more diligent and effective than it currently is tied to resource control alone? In contrast, and for those who can relate problems to solutions, it is obvious some of the recommendations of the nPDP actually provide workable solutions to identified problems even if some want to muddy the water with impertinent talk based on whipping up feudal sentiments in Nigerians that detract from the monumental failure of the FG.

Gbawe: Even with the resource control argument, the 8 recommendation covered it with the innate feudalism of many making them to miss it. To expose the deceit Insincere9gerian and other feudalists are trying to pull off, so that an intelligent inspection of the recommendations of the nPDP is impossible, the forum oblige and tell me what the suggestion below is demanding when it wants States to gain greater control of their resources ? It is the same method Insincere9gerian and his clan used to discredit Ribadu right here on this forum so we would not inspect the recommendations of his petroleum task force to demand with one voice, as a focused people, that GEJ implement those recommendations.

•We demand a re-ordering of the inchoate federal structure we are running with a view to allowing the states and the other federating units more access to resources to attend to the numerous responsibilities placed on them.

eGuerrilla: •We demand the empanelling of a credible, independent and resolute anti-corruption body to cleanse the country of the thick stench of corruption that has overwhelmed it at present.

Source: News Express

I thought one of their conditions for peace in their PDP umbllela was for the government not to ask EFCC investigate the rebel governors for corruption
Obviously it is time to play to the gallery with EMPTY words that the gullible MUMUS in our country will unwittingly applaud!

mightyfada: Its not the road...cause am a student of the uni...its coming from osbc to the school gate not from the school junction that is the main. If you Are a student in the uni definately u will understand what am saying

eaglechild: All this venom because his name is Edward NDUBUBA.
This is a welcome development, expanding the business empire and empowering the poor masses.

ba7man: Do you know how many roads Lagos State has to build and maintain??

akintun: D problem is d way d country is structured. I doubt if d state LG have enough money to build and maintain good roads.

Omooba77: Senator Oluremi Tinubu has said that youth that staged a protest on the wastefulness of NASS are misguided.She said this in an interview granted to Channels TV,she said President who allocated money and award contractors should be made liable.

mediachirps: you all landed on a very wrong absorption.
the case study is: millionaires see opportunities and ran to invest on it earlier before anyone else, because the capital is there. while others( poor) as well sees the same opportunities, but could not take action cause of capital (funds).
money does not grow on a tree. money is grown from money. I heard people saying "invest ", "invest", will you invest what you don't have? . I heard this world was created out of nothing.[/b][/color] but, literally this world was created by the power lord God has in his words. that power in his world, obviously is capital we are talking about here. my note : nothing is made out of nothing. so is something is made out of something.

Angry Youths Storm N'Assembly, Protest Lawmakers' Salaries

A group of protesting youths Thursday stormed the National Assembly to protest the salaries and allowances of members, saying their annual budget of N150 billion was outrageous.
According to the group's spokesperson, Mr. Yemi Adamolekun, the N150 billion annual budget for 469 lawmakers was unjustifiable amid the prevalent abject poverty ravaging the nation.

She also alleged that most of the federal lawmakers have completely alienated themselves from their constituents, whom she said, voted them into office by deliberately avoiding contacts with them.

The protesters also expressed displeasure that the lawmakers had allegedly failed to make public their votes on the recent constitution amendment exercise, notably on the controversial Section 29 (4B) of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.

However, while addressing the protesters, Senate's spokesman, Eyinnaya Abaribe, challenged the youths to a debate on the salary of lawmakers.

According to him, most Nigerians, especially the youths, were either ignorant or misinformed, saying the protesters erred by thinking that the National Assembly consisted of only 469 lawmakers.

He explained that the annual budget of the National Assembly went beyond the salaries and allowances of lawmakers to include the expenditure of civil servants and other ancillary bodies that constituted the institution.
He also pledged to make public his pay slips to correct perceived erroneous beliefs that lawmakers' earnings were huge.

"The National Assembly budget is just three per cent of the national budget; three per cent of the other two arms of government. The waste is from the 97 per cent represented by the other two arms of government," he said.
He also debunked claims by the protesters that lawmakers had distanced themselves from their constituents.

"All Nigerians have a representative in the National Assembly. My constituents in Abia South senatorial district, which I represent, know me and I am accountable to them. It is the responsibility of Nigerians to go to each of their representatives in the National Assembly and ask for their constituency contacts. You should know those who are representing you; my constituents have my contact.

"Also, there is nothing hidden about the constitution review exercise. The recording of the voting is open. There is nothing hidden because it was done openly. All the media houses covering the legislature have the details. There is nothing to hide in the National Assembly," he said.

Also speaking, Senator Smart Adeyemi, who said the grievances of the protesters were not misplaced, added that he was part of the process that led to the evolvement of Freedom of Information (FoI) Act as a former President of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ). He urged Nigerians to seek right information from the appropriate quarters.

"The protests are in order as people must be allowed to express their views. I appreciate it when people ask questions as it is part of the quest for good governance. But I can tell you that none of us is earning beyond N1 million," he said.

On their protest on the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Adeyemi told the protesters that ASUU should understand that most of their demands could not be immediately met, adding: "We have appropriated the 2013 budget and it is being implemented. We are even approaching the end of the fiscal year. Whatever they want can only be incorporated in 2014 Appropriation."

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/angry-youths-storm-nassembly-protest-lawmakers-salaries/160056/

flying dutchman: TRUTH BE TOLD, MY COUSIN IS A CANDIDATE- AT NO TIME WAS THE LETTER DISTRIBUTED. EACHTIME THEY TRIED, THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY RESISTED COS THEY HAD INTERESTS IN THE PROCESS AND WANTED TO FORCE THEIR OWN CANDIDATES AT THE INTEREST OF THOSE WHO GOT IN ON MERIT

queenmeenat: Y re people blaming Amechi 4 making a political issue out of employment, Pls tell me wot else can be bigger than that.

This is about the Right Honourable going about to do 419 on his own people. How many times will he give letters to the same set of teachers
Could it be that he is now mingling with that band of scammers and fraudsters gathered together in the Association of Conmen in Nigeria, ACN?

wealthyprince: Newly employed 13,000 teachers in Rivers State will commence training August 5 at designated centres across the state. The 13,000, comprising both indigenous and non-indigenous applicants, were selected outof about 60,000 who went through written and oral examinations run by consultants. While the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, conducted the written examination, global recruitment outfit, PricewaterhouseCoopers conducted the written stage of the recruitment exercise andcomputed the candidates’ assessment and final recommendation to the Rivers State Ministry of Education. Another consultancy firm searched the candidates’ academic and other pleaded credentials with relevant examination bodies.
Speaking to The Neighbourhood reporter on Friday in Port Harcourt, Dr. Richard Ofuru, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education said the training will be de-centralised but will run simultaneously. “The training of the new 13,000 teachers will commence August 5,” the Perm Sec stated, adding that letters of postings would be issued to the teachers in the course of the training.
The Neighbourhood gathered that not all whose names got shortlisted turned up at the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, and the Senior Secondary Schools Board, RSSSB, during the deadline for the submission of academic credentials conducted at the respective Boards. An unofficial source disclosed that replacements were being recruited by the consultants.
The new teachers are expected to be at their places of posting soon as schools re-open after the long holidays in September.


https://www.nairaland.com/1023351/rivers-state-teachers-recruitment-2012/44#17085567

9jaboy007: Is it dat ur so dumb or ur hatred for good thing is blockin ur brain.a man built the best primary schools netwotk in africa and is free of charge .....employ 13000 un employed people and u angery with him,....the 13 thousand were gatherd for colleion and orentation so u hear and for ur ifo,orentation are done once befor the group orentarion pplsss stop haten

Rivers State had also received N400 million for its outstanding implementation of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme, using the 2009 Federal Government/UBE intervention fund. President Goodluck Jonathan presented the cheque to Amaechi in Abuja, during the “Good Performance Award to State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBS), organized by the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).

Adamawa state, which came second, got a cheque of N300 million, while Kebbi state emerged third.


http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=124954:rivers-blazes-the-trail-gives-appointment-letters-to-13000-teachers&Itemid=610

ba7man: As messed up as O.B.J was, I can say it was his Administration that revolutionize the Banking and Telecomunications industry in Nigeria. These 2 sectors absorbed tens of thousands of "Would-be" jobless youths into the new Labour market in just a few years.

What has G.E.J done to rival this??.......Pls, I'm open to answers on this question.

Suddenly, there was a set of young, new middle class that could afford good cars and live a decent life. Everyone felt the presense of these Banking and Telecomunication jobs. Yes, the Nigerian factor almost messed it up but it still remains till today a large employer of the new middle class.

I'm still waiting for G.E.J to revolutionize a sector of the Economy that would be visible for all to see. Here in Lagos, as long as there is no constant power supply, Lagos-Ibadan Express, Oshodi-Apapa rd and the Airport Rd haven't been fixed, he has done nothing to affect the Economic Capital except raise fuel prices......the effect of the partial subsidy removal that hasn't even been felt yet by the average citizen.

oniwo: It depends on your location.
You cannot charge high price in a an environment where over 70% are civil servant.
Also amount u charge some will difer from others. There is regular customers and seasonal customers.

nwekesimon68: MY CONTRIBUTION HERE IS SIMPLE. "Wealth is from God" No mata wat u do or see if u are not destined by nature to be rich and Wealthy belief me u can not make it.

wealthyprince: Newly employed 13,000 teachers in Rivers State will commence training August 5 at designated centres across the state. The 13,000, comprising both indigenous and non-indigenous applicants, were selected outof about 60,000 who went through written and oral examinations run by consultants. While the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, conducted the written examination, global recruitment outfit, PricewaterhouseCoopers conducted the written stage of the recruitment exercise andcomputed the candidates’ assessment and final recommendation to the Rivers State Ministry of Education. Another consultancy firm searched the candidates’ academic and other pleaded credentials with relevant examination bodies.
Speaking to The Neighbourhood reporter on Friday in Port Harcourt, Dr. Richard Ofuru, the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Education said the training will be de-centralised but will run simultaneously. “The training of the new 13,000 teachers will commence August 5,” the Perm Sec stated, adding that letters of postings would be issued to the teachers in the course of the training.
The Neighbourhood gathered that not all whose names got shortlisted turned up at the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, and the Senior Secondary Schools Board, RSSSB, during the deadline for the submission of academic credentials conducted at the respective Boards. An unofficial source disclosed that replacements were being recruited by the consultants.
The new teachers are expected to be at their places of posting soon as schools re-open after the long holidays in September.


https://www.nairaland.com/1023351/rivers-state-teachers-recruitment-2012/44#17085567

ba7man: If i hear "Fresh Air"!!!!......Nigerians and investors in general have gotten smarter, they've embraced the spirit of entepreneurship and are focused on delivering goods and services to the teeming population...........Some are trying to atribute it to G.E.J.

As long as we keep fumbling with the 2600MW of electricity, those ancient trains and the snail paced reconstruction of the economic corridor of Nigeria, his efforts remain.....#Fresh pubic hair#.