₦airaland Forum

OmoManU:
It's better to have representatives at the center, all the neglects that lagos has suffered since relocation of FCT to Abj since 1992, Fashola and Tinubu are both trying to reverse it in their own little ways. Lagos has never had the kind of attention its having under this administration since 1992. Lagos Ibadan express ✓, Lagos Abeokuta Express all the way to Abule Egba ✓, Apapa Oshodi Oworo Express ✓, Third mainland ✓, Ahmadu Bello Way VI to Outer Marina ✓, 90% of Ikorodu Road all the way to Ojota ✓, National Stadium under renovations, National Theater under renovations, New Modern Terminal at MMA, ready for commission, almost all the major bridges within the metropolis that needs rehabilitations, ✓. Good infrastructure is always the bedrock of any meaningful development, which can even be seen with the recent moves of President Biden. I guess it's only Lagos Badagry Express and Apapa gridlock that has defied solutions for now. You people keep hating Tinubu and his boys while they're silently making their own lives better and that of their people. We will say it again, politics is local and common sense not noise making.

gumaveddy:
I can proudly say that I'm a supporter of El rufai but there are certain decision which he take are odd, since day one I put forward a blueprint of workers been sacked by Kdsg but ignore. Look where we find ourselves so pathetic, it madness to any government at this hard time disengaged it workers for any reason. Pray for Kaduna

iwaeda:
Anyone that tells you the truth is enemy of progress. My father was born and bred in Lagos. Isale Agbede / Ita Alaagba. Though I am Igbomina. Drive round all the so called roads in Lagos. Start with Kadaara, Ebute-Meta. We will never develop with all these nonsense, Take a tour of Lagos Island roads to Adeniji. As long as I pay my tax here, I have right to question what my money is spent on.

T4kbaba:
��� *Eid Mubarak* ���

*تقبل الله منا و منكم* ��

*May Allah overlook our sins, bless our families, grant us long life in sound health, wealth and happiness, and ultimately make us amongst the inhabitants of Al Jannatul Firdaus*

� *Aameen*�

Eid Mubarak!

*Enjoy your celebration* ���

gawu1:
Yes, and since you are still a dependent the person you depend on ie your parent is supposed to pay or give out on your behalf.
If your parents depend on you for their living, for instead, it's incumbent on you to pay for them.
Thus parents can pay for their children, vise versa a child can pay for his parents.

KGD10:
Boko haram terrorists, take your stupidity to Muslim schools. As simple as ABC.

KGD10:
The difference is ipob didn't turn their region upside down and to war zone like you lunatic terrorists in the North. Bombing lunatics.

Hijab a fundamental human right? No wonder Muslim brain can't assimilate anything into the brain. I hardly see an intelligent Muslim all my life in schools. Hijab have covered all the air that suppose to help in easy assimilation. Foolish Terrorist!

KGD10:
See you championing boko haram Terrorists killing the people in the North. Of course boko haram terrorists are better to a fellow terrorist like you.

Ipob? They didn't turn their region upside down like how you folks did in the North, you know. Their region are peaceful but rather, they're defending their lands from land grabbing Fulani terrorists in order to ensure their region don't become desolate like the North. There's something wrong with y'all. Very greedy set of chaotic people fermenting trouble everywhere. Is that what your Islam taught you? Two things ruining the north presently, Fulani terrorists and Islam chaos. The two are interwoven TBH. Because these Fulani terrorists actually display this chaos and greediness to steal, linked to the acts of Muslims.

KGD10:
Don't you mean the boko haram destroying the whole country? Dumb terrorists.

Seriously there's something fundamentally wrong with the way you people reason. You need to look inward and change for the better.

First and foremost, you love creating needless chaos in peaceful places. Secondly the greed and love to steal what ain't yours. These two especially, chaos and greediness!

You people don't know when to stop. I wonder when a school become a religious house. Always causing chaos in the name of religion. Y'all choose to forget humanity totally or forgot the fact that humanity transcend any religion.

Funny enough, if the religion was that good, why aren't you people seeking visa in Muslim countries but you would rather seek for visa and residences in USA, UK, Canada etc. The Muslims make their countries a chaos and can't even live in there but rather seek asylum into peaceful countries yet they will still found a way to destroy the peaceful existence of the new countries. Just like how they destroyed the North and wanting to do same in the South. Are you people cursed to not want peace? Dem swear for you?

BobbieZion:
I guess Boko,Al-Qaeda,Al-Shabaab,Hamas and Hezbollah is also controlled by the media?
Why do you think even European countries are taking the same measure? And also in India.

Most people never knew about Islam,but as we get wiser and observant,we are also getting critical and fearsome of it's followers.
Can't blame anyone.

KGD10:
Go steal am na. Dumb Terrorist

KGD10:
No, it wasn't acquired. The contract signed disallows any form of change by the government in the tennets of the schools built by the missionaries. The government only have a right to do these in the schools built by the government in the old days and not missionaries schools. The moment any stupid government try rubbish, the missionaries bodies take over.

The fact that they allow their school under the care of the government to make it accessible to every child irrespective of their religion, ideology doesn't give any right to stupid extremist to act stupid in the school. Sink that into your skull. You call me an extremist? I ain't the one trying to be a nuisance in a school meant for learning but your fellow extremists.

KGD10:
You're stoooooopid. Did your backward Islam build that school? Did the government build the school? You dey maad? You don't have Muslim schools to go to, bah?

terabyte002:
Nigerian Christians are really sets of brainwashed individuals who continue to drown in Naked, mad, selfish and unreasonable western culture.
I am sure that about 50% of Nigeria Christians believe Jesus was a British or American native and that's one of the reason for all this sort of hatred and mad compliments of islam.
Even when it's obvious that America turned peaceful country like iraq, pallestine, libya and other to war zone for economic and political reasons, Nigeria Christians will always justify the real terrorists" Americans".
I laugh when I see Nigerian Christians wailing and making sentimental judgement on Islam. if Muslims are real terrorists what would you say about your missionary demi gods and their governments for slave trade, colonialism, hard labour and abuse of our race.
What's the place of racial discrimination, slave trade and hard labour in Bible and that's what best describe the white folks that brought the so call Christianity you all designing to be peaceful in your cockroach mind.
I am sure majority of Christian who alwsys run their mouth against anything islam are Igbo people who doesn't even know anything about the situation or the nature of the state, the people involves.
It is senseless for anyone to attach violence to islam.If you want to criticize Hausa people or Fulanis, criticize base on ethnic interest and their political superiority which is too late for any other region to withdraw.
It's not only the Hausa or Fulanis that are Muslims in Nigeria, before your church weeds makes you generalized on sensitive religion issues, you guys needs to always remember there are Yoruba Muslims, Igala Muslims and other tribes aside from Hausas and Fulanis. And also try to be reasonable because for an igbo man from Enugu or Anambra to be putting mouth on issues that's happening in Kwara state with over 85% Muslim population is madness.

Ayomi90:
Was it the government that built the schools?

GboyegaD:
That's not a separation as some schools allow hijab and they are non missionary schools. We shouldn't try to create issues and should respect the school's policy.

Creating chaos intentionally as is being depicted by trying to force hijab on schools is the animalistic behavior here.

gbemiga1:
you are not saying the truth. Read this, "KWARA STATE SCHOOLS BOARD
 
Speech delivered by His Excellency, The Military Governor of Kwara State, Colonel D. L. Bamigboye, at the Official Launching of the Kwara State Schools Board in Ilorin, State Capital, on 3/7/72

 
Civil Commissioners, Distinguised Ladies and Gentlemen,
 
I am delighted to be here this morning to launch officially the Kwara State Schools Board which came into being on the first day of June, 1972. This is a practical demonstration of the importance which my Government, among other Governments of the Federation, attaches to education.

It is gratifying to see the large assembly here this morning among whom, I understand, are proprietors, education secretaries, chairmen of boards of governors, principals of various grant-aided post-primary institutions and a lot more people from many walks of life. They are all welcome to Ilorin, the State Capital. It is my earnest prayer to wish everyone a pleasant stay in Ilorin and safe journey back home.
I want to start by acknowledging the depth of gratitude we owe to the Voluntary Agencies for the pioneering roles they have so far played in the progress of formal education in Nigeria, most especially in Kwara State.

Brief Historical Review
Some of the earliest primary schools in the country were opened by the Missions in what is today Kwara State. For instance, in 1865 the first primary school was opened at Lokoja. By 1918 similar Voluntary Agency schools were already opened at Offa,  at Ilorin and in Ogori. Gradually all the Christian Missions, Muslim Missions and Native Authorities, now Local Government Authorities, and communities became involved in establishing primary schools.
Today we have over 550 primary schools in the State. The Missions, the Native Authorities and the local communities have also contributed a great deal to the development of post-primary education in the State. As at date, there are 78 post- primary schools in the State. Of these only 3 are owned and run directly by the Government while the remaining 65 are Voluntary Agency, Community and private schools. I have gone into this aspect of the history of education in the State to show the value of team work among the Voluntary Agencies. Local communities private interests and the Government in the great task of educating our children. I hope that this tradition of team work will continue.

As many of you know, the proposal to establish Schools Board dated several years back. The National Joint Negotiation Council of 1964 under the distinguished Chairmanship of Justice Adefarasin and the Committee on the Grading Duty Posts in Voluntary Agency Institutions recommended it. Above all, the teachers themselves support it. These are concrete proofs of the desirability of the scheme hence my Government’s spontaneous reaction to it when due for consideration.

Full Scale Consultations
In my last Budget Speech I mentioned the intention of my Government to create the State Schools Board and the Local School Boards. I made good this promise in respect of one when on 18th May, 1972, I signed the Education Law ( Amendment) Edict, which gave birth to the State Schools Board on 1st June, 1972, the official launching of which we are all witnessing here today. The Board comprises seven able personalities, including a woman, to run the affairs of the Voluntary Agency grant-aided post-primary institutions. Before establishing the Board my Ministry of Education went into full scale consultations with the major Voluntary Agency institutions in the six Northern States, namely, the Protestants, the Roman Catholic, and the Islamic bodies as early as February, 1970. I am glad to announce that all the Voluntary Agency and community schools were fully in agreement and that the five “Part-time” members at this Board virtually represent these agencies although they are expected to function as individuals and according to their own best judgement.

Aspects of Education Administration.
While it is the main purpose of the State Schools Board to implement Asabia Recommendations, The Board has come in the nick of time to give concrete expression to Government thinking on certain aspects of the administration of education in this State. Of particular concern to the Government in this regard are the followings needs:-

(a) The need to have job security for teachers in Voluntary Agency Schools.

(b) The need to improve as well as unify service conditions of teachers in all Voluntary Agency Institutions.

(c ) The need for uniformly high standards between Government and Voluntary Agency institutions.

(d) The need to narrow, with the ultimate aim of closing, the gap in educational provision amongst the various areas in the State.

(e) The need to ensure adequate staffing for all schools.

The Edict establishing the Board clearly spelt out the functions of the Board which include 'power to appoint teachers (including power to make appointments on promotion, conform appointments and effect transfers) and to dismiss and exercise disciplinary control over teachers in all post – primary schools which are in receipt of Government grant-in-aid.

No Schools Takeover Yet.
It is appropriate for me at this juncture to clarify some misgivings about the State Schools Board. The term ‘take-over’ has become very current in our newspapers that it needs to be clarified in respect of our establishment of the Schools Board. I mentioned in my Budget Speech that my Government has not yet decided to take over Secondary Schools. What will now be taken over is the staff management in grant-aided post-primary institutions and NOT the institutions themselves. A total take–over of schools by Government means, among other things, a change in ownership of schools. In this connection, I want to remind the Voluntary Agencies that they are still the owner of their schools and therefore retain the rights over as well as responsibilities for them. For avoidance of doubts, let me mention some of your rights as proprietors under the new dispensation:-

   (a) The right of ownership of institutions. Proprietors still retain the greatest of proprietory rights namely, ownership of their grants aided institutions.  It should be noted that the existence of the Board will in no way detract from this.

(b) The names of schools remain as given by proprietors.

(c ) Religious orientation and practices in the schools remain generally undisturbed.

(d) The right to nominate Board of Governors with responsibility for the day-to-day management and welfare of the institutions remain unchanged. The Board of Governors will continue to function normally except in regards to staff matters which responsibility is now taken over by the State Schools Board. Finally,

(e) The total tone of the institutions remains the responsibility of the Board of Governors as the main organ of the Proprietors.

Proprietors’ Continued Participation
At this point, I want to emphasize the importance of proprietors’ continued participation. Under the new scheme the institutions whose staff management is being taken over should continue to be virile and progressive with bouyant financial support from community and Missions both for proper maintenance and necessary developments. By this I mean the mistake of the past should not be repeated whereby people misunderstood the role of the Local Education Authorities for ‘a total take-over’ of the transferred schools and consequently washed off their hands financially. I am here reiterating that proprietors still owe large duties to their institutions and these they should continue to discharge through their Boards of Governors, for example:-
the regular maintenance of the school buildings, housing of institutional staff, provisions of school accommodation, the general tone of the institution, appointment of Board’s own administrative staff and anything to do with the academic work of the school, other than teaching staff.
I hope that the Missionary as well, as the community spirits which engendered these institutions will continue to enable them to run without any financial hardship.

Finally I want to remind the State Schools Board of the enormous task ahead of it. I am sure that the Board is fully aware of the various problems which it is set up to solve I expect the Board to give the schools the best services possible and to demonstrate that with prudent management of the existing scale of financial provisions the teachers' lot can be greatly improved. The Board is set up to improve, standards and services conditions of teachers. It is also its major role to maintain discipline in the noble profession.
In Conclusion, I wish the Kwara State Schools Board many years of useful services to this State and to the country as a whole.
 
Thank you."