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In its effort towards sanitizing the education sector of the state, the Ogun State Government on Wednesday suspended the services of no fewer than 1,024 teachers for allegedly engaging in fraudulent and irregular activities like forgery and manipulation of credentials. The suspension is with immediate effect.

Few weeks ago, the state government engaged all its 6,531 teachers in a screening exercise conducted by CITC Consulting firm, which verified the statement of results and attestation letters from over 50 higher institutions across the country submitted by the teachers.

The firm’s final report which lead to the suspension revealed that 475 teachers possessed forged certificates and did not have their attestation letters confirmed by the originating institutions.

Furthermore, 274 were suspended for not appearing for the screening exercise, 236 for being totally unqualified, 12 for exceeding statutory length of service, and 11 for age discrepancies.

It was also discovered that 14 deceased teachers were still being paid salaries while 2 others were impostors.

Reacting to the suspension, the Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board, Mufutau Ajibola said the suspension takes immediate effect pending formal determination of their cases by the panel established in the Office of the Head of Service.

Ajibola noted that the board is compiling documents to be presented to the State Police Command for possible criminal prosecution of those indicted during the exercise.

The State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Segun Odubela had earlier said thus “ all our investments to provide affordable quality education will only yield result if we have well qualified and motivated teachers in our classrooms.”

Odubela affirmed that the exercise was about quality assurance on human capital.

abrat: I did not say sack, the teachers were suspended! dude.

By the way, of all the points raised so far; are u saying there are enough medical staffs (nurses &midwives) or Amosun did not impose candidates on pple during primaries & LG election? The 2000+ He sacked, are u saying all of them posses fake certificates? or loyal to Daniel? For God's sake, Aremo Olusegun Osoba (my sure father) employed workers some weeks to the end of his tenure & Daniel did not sack them. Go & check history if u are new in Ogun state. We voted for him (sacked workers inclussive) because pple actually wanted a change. He now thinks He is the Mesiah of Ogun State? He should remember those suspended has pple they feed.We'll keep our fingers crossed till 2015.

I don't think I should be discussing this with u anyways! A gov. that refuse to listen. AGIDI OWU.

rampant lover: An idiot with no cell brain in his fractured skull is saying there are no SA Universities in the list because they are in their own class. If the top ten universities in the list should be from SA, then you have no choice but let it be as such because SA is part of Africa. So many lame fools in here who are just keyboard/pad happy. Happy to type without any iota of thinking. You want to ignore universities in SA even though you ranking top universities in Africa. Didn't you feel ashamed of yourself spewing that rubbish?

gregg2: Fraud Fraud Fraud Fraud Fraud Fraud

A genuine ranking may not even place UNILAG in the top 20.
What about all the top class Universities in South Africa - Capetown, Pretoria etc?

sammhi: it is a federal creation . but mod. u have to see my arguments on tax collection in unmotorable roads

Donald7610: The BRT drivers are empowered beyond any task-force
Bcuz they work for BRF.
God will deliver us frm Slavery

Sincere 9gerian: I do not intend to malign the Lagos state govt but to point out the HYPOCRISY and CONTRADICTIONS in the assessments of public office holders.
The Lagos light rail system was commenced by the Jakande govt in the early 80's but the project was unfortunately terminated by Buhari after the coup of 1983. The project was re-started in this 4th republic but after Tinubu's 8yrs rule and Fashola's 5yrs rule, the project is yet to be completed. A light rail system within a small and resource rich state like Lagos cannot be completed in 13yrs? This is a CATASTROPHE. But it is explicable to the ACN fanatics, yet they CRUCIFY GEJ for according to them "failing to fix all sectors" within 2 to 3yrs

Paul John: You're right about the wrong generalization.
You should also understand that the capital is the representation of any state/region or a nation. It's what the capital looks like that is been interpreted as the identity of the state. I'll say Akwa Ibom is beautiful, since what is presented as her capital is.

Going by your post, Abuja is not beautiful since more than 60% of the territory is still indecent. What matters is the what represents her.

shadrach77: maybe this was why some posts were removed but by some strange co-incidence, it seems thhe VCs of UNILAG and LASU are almost always muslims

makinde3: It is very bad that they are fake teachers, but if they are doing well in there teaching job,they do not need sacking but training they to be qualified teachers

jigawatts: We still believe in God and hope he will be found. All sorts of investigations av been going on, but nothing found........ At this junction, we hope God will give us a reason to rejoice. God owns all of us and he can do whatever her likes with us ...... The family is staying strong and everyone is moving around with their normal lives.
We will rejoice soon In sha Allah
My name is Gawat Jubril A. (Son)

Itohen: The Federal Government will today (Tuesday) reopen the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos, one week ahead of the scheduled delivery date of November 6, 2012.

The government had partially closed the bridge on July 7 to enable the contractor, Messrs Boroni Prono and Company Limited, to replace eight expansion joints on the bridge for a contract sum of N1bn.

The reopening of the bridge will come as a welcome relief to motorists and commuters, who have had to connect Lagos Island, Victoria Island, Lekki, Ajah and Epe from different parts of the mainland through Western Avenue due to restriction of vehicular movement on the bridge from 12 noon to 12am, while opening for movement to the mainland within the same time.

The Special Adviser to the Minister of Works on Media, Mr. Tony Ikpasaja, confirmed the reopening of the bridge in a telephone conversation with our correspondent on Monday.

According to him, the Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolememen, will open the rehabilitated bridge to motorists at a ceremony that will also have in attendance federal and Lagos State government officials and other stakeholders.

Onolememen had said during an inspection tour of the bridge on August 10, “The inspection visit is to track the progress that the contractor has made; whether actual progress is in line with our planned programme. I am happy to announce that the physical progress in not only in line with our programme, but there has been a gain of approximately one week, which is very commendable.

“It means that if we sustain the momentum, we will be able to deliver the project ahead of the scheduled delivery date of November 6, 2012.”

He had explained that the Federal Government decided to rehabilitate the bridge, which is the longest and most travelled in the country, because of its commitment to giving due attention to infrastructure in Lagos State, which he said was attracting about 53 per cent of commercial activities in the country.

As parts of efforts to minimise the disruptions to free flow of traffic in the metropolis, the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority had deployed 700 officers to the bridge and traffic points on the alternative routes.

Officers of the Nigerian Police, Nigerian Army, Federal Road Safety Corps and Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps joined their LASTMA colleagues in managing the attendant traffic.

http://www.punchng.com/news/fg-reopens-3rd-mainland-bridge-today/

advocate666: Please don't blame the artificial state. Blame the nigerian govt and their program of consistently keeping the igbos down. If we had our igbo country, this will not exist. Fight for your freedom because no one else would do it for you.