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Deputy vice chancellor of the Tai Solarin
University of Education, Professor Joseph
Olusanya said that there were many factors
responsible for the decline. He said, “Students’
nonchalant attitude towards school is very
appalling. We also have a vicious circle of
teachers, which means that most teachers at
the primary and secondary school levels are
half-baked.”

He went on to say, “The level of
unseriousness (sic) of students is on the high
increase, because the introduction of modern
technology has taken their time. Due to low
remuneration of teachers, they combine
business with teaching, which also affects the
output.”

leadership.ng/news/382400/nigeria-sitting-time-bomb

nigizjay: Please where is plateau state na?

Check number 23

emiye: There was no where i expressly or implicitly indicated my tribe in my posts on this thread. The worst kind of deceit is deceiving yourself

It is better that falsehood is not celebrated with fanfare, and i commend the current state governor of Anambra who prefers to unmask falsehood to determine reality by making attempts to close the exam malpractice centres.

Policies that will make great focus on Maths / English should be encouraged by state administrators, I know Lagos has made it compulsory for ss1/ss2 students to earn passmark in those two subjects to earn promotion to the next class.

Of what use is a candidate having six distinctions and a d7 in english or a d7 in maths ?in Waec classification , it is deemed as failure.

My point is that it shouldnt take way too much by state govts to ensure improvement, impact of sustainable policies should reflect 2-3 years down the line.

Let's not split an atom here. I hope, we will concentrate on ways, higher education will be improved on this thread. Than the usual, I am better than you crap .

Innovator90: It's not the government is the brain of the people. Abians have always excelled academically before Gov. Theodore Orji and will continue to do that after he is gone.

Government is playing its part, the top states have something to teach us about our education polices in this country.

MOBJECTIVE: States With Percentages over 50
1) Anambra, as usual: 65.92%
2) Abia, also as usual: 58.52%
3) Edo, new comer: 57.82%
4) Rivers, as usual: 52.78%
5) Enugu, as usual: 51.91%

Just noticed you don't have bayelsa on this list.

emiye: Dumb one who lacks deductive reasoning, it simply means an average of 100 students in each of the 486 special centres roughly equates the total number of students(50,000 +) who sat for Wassce exam in Anambra.

There are times serious thought process are required, when discussing public policy. Worry about your state's performance and stop making everything in this country about tribe. Tell us how your state performed and why?

OdenigboAroli: Guy,this Delta position don vex you ooo

I'm not used to seeing my state at the below of anything in Nigeria. No 9 for delta will vex any deltan.

Then 40% pass average. With all that billions spent.

I think for the third year in a row, Bayelsa has position itself as a new education power house in the SS.

Dickson, must be doing something right

MOBJECTIVE: I really didn't expect such failure from cross river. it's possible it's mixed up with edo...possible.

I don't know, but the govs of the SS need to wake up. The future is knowledge based. Cross rivers and delta are a real disappointment.

SambisaKing: دگر نمی دان نور اگر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش دیوار و چشم خیره ما نور اگر رفت سایه. ر رفت سایه پیدا نیست نقش

Egbe Ame has answered you

OdenigboAroli: Guy,chill out...no mind that fella.

No, wahala.

warripekin: Uduaghan has really done well in education. I wonder why it's not reflecting.

The state was 6th last year with a 46.7% pass average. Something is not working right. All the billions, in the higher education ministry is not working. Just look at Edo and bayelsa state. Bayelsa spends more on Education than delta does, but we out spent Edo state almost 2:1. Yet we swapped spots with them this year

SambisaKing: even the 9th position is Aniomamade and Aniomaprowess

i served @ Emevor, Isokko North...i know how we ran the show

You too mentally challenged for me, to engage you.

warripekin: Where is Delta state. We are usually among the top six

Unfortunately we are down to number 9. With a 40% pass average. This is very very disappointing.

meforyou1: more of the children worked hard for their success

Agreed, but the government of Abia need to get some credit here.

The downward trajectory of delta, cross rivers and Akwa ibom should be alarming to governments of these states. I hope Uduaghan, and co are seeing these states slip, year after year. We now have a 40% pass average, that is not acceptable. The hefty expenditure on education is not showing in these results. On the other hand Edo and Bayelsa states have seen a remarkable improvement.

People keep trashing Abia's state government on these online forums, yet Abia is always well represented when it truly counts. The Gov and the state must be doing something right.

OdenigboAroli: I guess so,it says 2014.

Sorry, I did not read the linked source, my mistake.

Is this the results that were just released?

Collynzo16: How would you feel if your place have been sidelined bu the government in terms of projects only for them to bring in something like this?
Of what benefit will such a center be to Emohua people in particular? That is why they are protesting against it.

Nigerians will always complain. No matter what. We have both a cremation center and the only general hospital in the area currently designated as a center for Ebola treatment and Isolation unit

Collynzo16: Emohua people are fully against it. Of all the projects Amaechi could have cited in that place, it is Ebola center that he chose.

So what?

This is not good news, PDP Adamawa is just setting themselves up for real internal troubles.

FIGURES from the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, show that for 2012, the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR, for the 36 states of Nigeria was about N555 billion, out of which the 19 states of the North generated N87 billion or 15 %; the South West generated N261.2 billion or 47%; the South-South accounted for N150 billion or 27% and the South East N45 billion or 8%. In other words, the South generated N 468 or 85 % of the total IGR for 2012.

Eight states, namely Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Kano, Kwara, and Sokoto, had no figures for 2012, while Abia State remained blank from 2010.This anomaly may perhaps be for political reasons or for sheer incompetence of the officers in-charge in these states. Whatever their reasons, their governors should be concerned because it speaks volumes about them. There is no reason, for example, why Abia State should not submit their annual IGR figures as the Chairman of the South East Governors.

However, the best six performing states in the South did N377 billion or 68%, while the best six states in the North did N46 billion or 8%. These figures are of great importance, as they bring some home truths to us. They question the ostentatious life styles of many governors who ride about in Hummer SUV cars, going for yatch cruising holidays overseas, frittering away the money they collected from the Federal purse. Such governors should emulate the Governors of Lagos State(who generated N219.2 billion IGR) and Rivers State(with N66.2 billion IGR).
Northern Nigeria’s poor showing remains a concern. Eight of the least ten states in terms of IGR are from Northern Nigeria, including Yobe and Borno which are bearing the brunt of the current insurgency. States in the South continue to show dominance in terms of economic activity, but the low IGR of the South East calls for concern too, and the need for that region to evolve strategies for economic growth and revenue base enlargement. They have spread themselves too thin all over the country, making huge contributions to the IGR of their host states even when those states are hostile to them; they need a rethink.

The South-South oil producing states have good IGR showing, perhaps due to the increased economic activity that oil and gas provides. Five of the top ten states with the highest IGR are oil producing, including Rivers, Delta, Edo, Akwa Ibom and Cross River.
States without oil also have vast agricultural capacities that should be expanded, while the Northern states with solid minerals should do something to help their peoples. Some states have abundant resources but are too lazy to harness the resources for their own good. They only wait for the Federal Allocations at the end of every month to disburse it to their families and cronies, yet rail against the Federal Government at every opportunity.

Lagos State leads with an IGR of N219,2 billion or 39% , being our commercial capital where all visitors feel free to do business, unlike many states. Those states that antagonise visitors based on religion and ethnicity should learn from the accommodating attitude of Lagosians.
In fact, most states cannot survive without the Federal allocation, and rather than launch into programmes that will expand their revenue base, they force the people to bear the brunt of their wasteful lifestyles through all forms of taxations.
The performance of the oil producing states tend to put other governors under pressure, causing them to resort to all sorts of devices to boost their IGR, leading to the subjection of their people to multiple taxation. In such states, they interpret their laws to allow for multiple taxation of businesses.

They equip civil servants with buses and motorcycles to hound business premises with demand notices for all kinds of rates and taxes. Their Ministry of Land and Town Planning will go for property and tenement rates, Ministry of Commerce and Industry for business premises rates,Ministry for Technology will ask for new business premises taxes targeting filling stations and such businesses, while the state’s Revenue Service still hunt for income taxes and other taxes from businesses, as the local government council chase for their own taxes.
The result is that in such states, a business premises receives and entertains about six to seven demand notices for taxes from the state government offices annually!

These governors often equip thugs with uniforms, provide them with motorcycles and give them revenue targets on monitoring and seizing broken down vehicles, collecting fines for wrong parking, wrong lane driving and all sorts of unimaginable traffic offences along their often potholes-filled roads.

When you are caught, the fines are usually very heavy, from N35,000 for cars to N90, 000 for trucks, but you can negotiate and sort them out with a little amount before they drag you to their wretched officers in their office.
The implications for these multiple taxation on businesses in some states are heavy and further impoverish the people. New business startups are very slow and few, because of such impediments.
If nothing is done, multiple taxation will endanger, if not kill, the laudable new initiative of the Central Bank of Nigeria to empower and fund SMEs in the states of the Federation. With elections around the corner governors are grinning from ear to ear in anticipation of the money to be released by CBN which they may siphon away using the instrumentality of multiple taxation. New businesses should be exempted from states and federal taxes for the usual initial period of three years, and the National Assembly should harmonise all the state tax laws to eliminate multiple taxations.

If the 54 states structure recommended by the CONFAB 2014, is accepted and implemented, many of these states will not function without Federal Allocation. From what we see today, bad times still await the people as many states are not focusing on revenue creation base among the citizens before taxation.
Clement Udegbe, a legal practitioner, wrote from Lagos.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/states-multiple-taxation-igr-boost/#sthash.V2c7PSB1.dpuf

Nigerian government should send billions to Cameroon to do killing we refuse to do. Nobody in Cameroon is claiming genocide or human rights abuse.

A country with a United front and a United army never fails.

THE greatest threat facing the nation’s war against the Boko Haram and other Islamist insurgents has to do with the unprecedented acts of sabotage that the national assignment is facing. Never at any other time in the history of Nigeria had the army been so bedeviled by internal and external undermining of efforts to rid the country of terrorists and other enemies of her unity and progress.
The sabotage comes in so many forms. It is both within and outside the confines of the armed forces. According to media reports, some military officers with sympathy for the cause of the insurgents sometimes reportedly divulge critical information about the plans of the military to undertake campaigns or even funnel military equipment to their partisans in the enemy camp. This, we learnt, has led to the unceremonious cancellation of such campaigns to avoid putting officers and men in danger of running into ambushes.
One of the greatest forms of the sabotage is misinformation. Many sympathisers of Boko Haram are very eager to approach, mainly, the foreign media to say uncomplimentary things about our armed forces . They create an impression of Boko Haram as an invincible force and Sambisa, their chosen camp, as an impregnable fortress. It is this misinformation and the subsequent avoidable losses in men and military material that give rise to the tales of real or imagined “mutinies” and protests among our men under arms.
The military high command, as well as their supervisory political authorities, must take firm steps to discourage acts of sabotage against our men and women confronting the terrorists. We are fully in support of the assurance by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Kenneth Minimah, that the army will henceforth go tough on saboteurs and visit them with the strictest dictates of the law when nabbed and convicted of the crime.
We are also gratified to note that army is on the verge of taking delivery of sophisticated equipment. It will surely boost morale among the troops and spur them to greater effort to flush the terrorists out of Nigeria.
We call on the mass media to redouble their efforts and throw their full support for the armed forces. More efforts should be made to de-emphasise the dissemination of sensational and unsubstantiated information because we may be unwittingly playing into the hands of the terrorists. It is important for media houses to take a closer hold of their online editions and minimise their use by the terrorists and their supporters to achieve their evil purposes.
The war on terror is not for the army, security agencies or the federal government alone. It is a collective effort. We must report suspected saboteurs to the appropriate authorities and keep our communities safe.

- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/going-tough-saboteurs/#sthash.2n15VuzI.dpuf

Eurasia, the global political risk and consulting firm, has upgraded its short-term trajectory on Nigeria from negative to neutral, as it projects that President Goodluck Jonathan has a 75-percent chance of re-election in February 2015.

Eurasia says this is likely to put a floor on downside risks to the economy as the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) steadily consolidates under the president.

According to Philippe de Pontet, Africa director at New York-based Eurasia Group, “Nigeria will muddle through after all, without too much investment-relevant risk.”

Eurasia notes in a new report that the next six months in Nigeria will be tense, however.

“This will not resolve Nigeria’s structural vulnerabilities, but reduces the likelihood that the campaign season will completely upend the investment climate or reverse the country’s economic momentum. Over the next six months, we envision policy stagnation, but not sharp backsliding,” it further says.

A Jonathan win could feed political unrest in the north, but makes it less likely that rebels in the Niger Delta re-ignite their attacks on oil infrastructure and personnel, according to Eurasia.

“Political risks are already elevated so our neutral forecast starts from a high-risk baseline. Downside pressures that could push our trajectory back in a negative direction would include some combination of an oil shock (price or production), a disorderly response to Fed tapering, a new wave of defections from the PDP, a sharp escalation (and southern creep) by Boko Haram and a prolonged rise of sectarian or political violence,” the report says.

De Pontet states that the upgrade is based on Eurasia’s methodology for assessing political risk trajectory (six months out and two years out).

It is expected by Eurasia that the pre-election period will be marked by patronage politics, constant politicking, and attacks by Boko Haram, oil theft, and policy stagnation, but they are not expected to undermine national stability or derail Jonathan’s candidacy.

Furthermore, the risk of fiscal or monetary policy upheaval under Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala or CBN Governor Godwin Emefiele is relatively low, limiting downside risk.

Nigeria has in the last year seen dramatic events in the lead to the general elections that have spelt a political quandary at times for the two leading political parties, APC and PDP, as they both engaged in an intense contest of political checkmate.

APC emerged as a political game changer after scoring high profile defections from the PDP, soon after the controversial merger of its parties, ACN and CPC.

However, the political storm it raised has started to settle with the loss of an election in Ekiti State where it previously won the election, the impeachment of one of its governors Murtala Nyako of Adamawa State, a governor who defected from the PDP to the APC, on charges of misconduct and violation of the constitution, and as high profile defections from the opposition APC to the ruling PDP occurred.

Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria’s former anti-corruption chief, Buba Mohammed Marwa, a former military governor of Lagos, and Ibrahim Shekarau, a one-time opposition governor of Kano State and founding member of APC, have all defected from APC to PDP.

Jonathan has faced criticism from the opposition and citizens for failing to check corruption, contain a raging Islamist insurgency in the country’s north and deliver on promises of economic reform. All these have hurt Jonathan’s standing in the run-up to the elections.

However, Ribadu’s defection has been seen as a boost for the PDP.

Ribadu “helps boost confidence in the PDP because it’s a demonstration of their current political strength”, says Thomas Horn Hansen, senior Africa analyst at London-based Control Risks.

“It’s a political coup for the PDP over the APC,” he says.

“Ribadu’s defection to the PDP is a blow to the opposition on multiple fronts,” de Pontet said. “It’s a setback for the APC’s self-promoted brand as a true alternative to the ruling party.”

YINKA ABRAHAM

http://businessdayonline.com/2014/08/eurasia-upgrades-nigeria-to-neutral-on-jonathan-re-election-prospects

The biggest fraud in Nigeria today, is telling us, minerals are not mined in commercial qualities up north. That;s a big lie. Mining is big business all across the north, just like farming. The only problem is, all incomes are kept in private pockets.

Another milestone some other administration could not achieve.

pazienza: The FG fixation on unreliable gas powered plants,and total neglect of coal powered ones, reeks of conspiracy . To even think of the fact that they had once fiddled with the idea of nuclear energy power plants, but had never for once given thought to coal power plants makes this conspiracy more obvious.

The FG have simply sticked to it's post civil war economic sabotage of Igboland and the rest of the country is paying the price for that.

Don't you think, having an investment vehicle, where the primary states of Enugu and Anambra bring together private investors and have the investors seek a federal government grantee, will be a better process to harness the coal from the east. People's fixation with gas is because, we already have the infrastructures to produce and use it. The big problem is inadequate pipelines. Coal needs to be mined and power plants built to process it.

Phame: because u did not take out time to read the story proper, u ended up not changing the title to conform with the body of the story.

Why should I change the title? This was directly from vanguard as published.

Ribadu should be left alone, he has zero value to PDP both in Adamawa and the NE. He is not going to win any primary in PDP.

Nigeria does not have a bad image, NIGERIANS DO.