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Ekiti was created alongside 5 other states(zamfara, ebonyi, bayelsa, yobe and nasarrawa) in 1996. It has the least allocation per capita of all the 36 states, it has also had turbulent and unstable democratic experience that affected its development. I am of the believe that at the end of the current governors second term in 2018, the state would have a witnessed a step change/remarkable improvement.

I have seen a whole lot of foolishness and poor reasoning on this thread.

wengerjay: Na 1:30pm Nigerian time abeg.

My bad, 2:3opm CAT is 1:30pm nigerian time.

CAT operates on GMT +2 and Nigeria time is on GMT +1

hercules07: Lagos uses both diesel and gas to fire their plant, does the bauchi one use the same method? ?

I have a feeling bauchi's plant will be a diesel powered plant (i stand to be corrected), meaning there is no need to lay gas pipelines (lesser cost of project) . I am aware for the 12.15 MW Akute power plant, 13km Natural gas pipeline was laid from source of gas to plant location

A litre of diesel which cost roughly N150 per litre will generate as much energy as 1.05standard cubic metre of natural gas which cost roughly N40

Sincere 9gerian: Nonsense! We know all that already. We'r talking of massive difference here- N230 million per megawatt in Bauchi state versus the N400 million per megawatt in Lagos.

How did you arrive at N400 million per megawatts for lagos power plant, ? your calculation is fraudulent

^^^ "One technical post was removed" ?? Still the same huff and puff frm you, Never knew you were this empty.

, I actually wasted my time replying you, i wont do that anymore.

BabaAlabi: Backward Nigerian mentality! Always taking constructive criticism as jealousy or bad belle. Why would someone leave a well paying FIFA job for the unstable and corrupt NFF? Please learn to think before writing.

That was not even criticism, but admonition

ipasco: The continent’s premier sports network, SuperSport, will broadcast the titanic clash in the spectacular pictures of High Definition live from 2.30pm CAT on SS3HD and SS3.

2:30 pm Central African time is 12:30 pm Nigerian time

I hope it translates to victory on 16th of Nov.

alpontif: I am relaxed, I am not prone to losing my cool over issues with faceless bots on the internet, not in a 100 years.

I am not proud, just assertive. I know what I know.

But I am not gonna take this literally, coz this is not about me.

The issue is I do not think it smart that non domain experts discuss expert knowledge that ONLY domain experts can intelligently discuss without arriving at wrong conclusions. non experts do not even ask the right questions, since there premise is not backed by any technical training or experience in the domain to which the pretend to debate.

This usually results in misinformation and the propagation of half baked ''expert'' opinions.

You cannot find me discussing the merits and demerits of surgical techniques for complex proximal tibial fractures, that
can only be discussed by the domain experts, that is the surgeons practicing in that field, you may trust their conclusions, or not, but it is silly for a Civil engineer to start debating or discussing that.

Civil Engineering Design practices and construction is not forex or stock trading, that you can learn and understand practically without a proper technical training in it in a week.

Leave the domain topic to the domain experts, then you will not have a layman arguing with the Engineer on a project just because he got some misinformation from a forum on the internet.

You are so annoying .

You lead me on, and i was waiting for your "domain expert" opinion, and i did not see any, all i saw was long ranting epistle from you fighting everyone to stop commenting on the thread since they are not "domain experts"

Gosh, i wish i can sla* you from my system.

This is a captive power plant, a special purpose power plant to create direct value in terms of uniterrupted power supply for Alausa secretariat and its environs. Imagine you've got to process a document in Alausa secretariat, and you are told you will have to come back coz there is no power supply

Good step in the right direction by the LASG.

Sincere 9gerian: Many of the christian schools have been returned. Moreover if the schools now belong to the state govt, why would the state govt be begging the churches to have assess to the schools? Can you be denied assess to a property you'v taken control of?

Now i see, you dont have a grasp of the situation !

Osun state govt is only being diplomatic with the protesters

In osun state there are christian missionary public schools (like baptist /caholic pri/se. schools e.t.c)and muslim society public schools (Ansarudeen pri/sec. schools e.t.c) which are controlled by the state govt, since the policy of yesteryears that seized missionary schools from their pioneers, .those schools maintained their names and certain xteristics like mode of worship on assembly grounds e.t.c A school like ansarudeen pri school will most likely have a muslim praye r/ praise sessionr on morning assembly grounds, muslim students permitted to wear hijab and the baptist public school a christain prayer/prayer session.

The schools merger brought about a situation where students from former muslim society school were relocated to a christian missionary [b]public [/b]schools, this time a baptist missionary public school.

Anvaller: Hahaha look at this dude, ur logic is not logic if it is inconclusive. So how is it logically of any advantage for a student whose house is now farther to his/her new school? What point are u trying to make here? No matter how u slice it, a certain group of students have been disadvantaged by relocating their schools. Yes it might be benefit for some other students but who makes up for the students that will suffer for it?

I dont expect you to argue this, if you say it is inconclusive, why were you then making the foundation of your arguments based on something inconclusive.

If i see a pregnant women , i can say the baby in her womb is either male or female. Even if the husbands wants a male child. Not until delivery can we see the result.

She should stay away from making sensitive comments like this in this period of mourning, ms stella oduah should be diplomatic with her choice of words

Her 2years tenure in the aviation ministry has witnessed the highest number of plane crashes in history of nigeria.

She needs to go beyond the focus on painting and modelling of nigerian airports. Safety first

Definition of the kind of Jonathans committees

A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done

A group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary

A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours

kenbee: How many Governors mounted the podium for Mr Peter Obi? Even the Rochas? The point is:
1) APGA is like religion and it runs in the blood of an average Igbo man.
2) Ngige's popularlity can not be underestimated but APC really messed up with the deportation saga and is seen as bad market in Anambra.
3) Just as our western brothers will always invade the Igbos on nairaland, they will always beat drum for Ngige but the unfortunate koko is that they can't vote.

You mean APGA is like a religion ?, but how come APGA lost all the three (3) senatorial districts in the anambra 2011 elections.

Maybe APGA is now becoming an abandoned religion

Omen100: But this same man once accused Bola Tinubu of being behind his quandaries, so I don't get it.

My exact thought, i think he is suffering from hallucination.

theoctopus: Do you actually believe that increasing the font size has improved your post?

It is meant for agents of deception like you to keep shut.

theoctopus: Where in Tinubu's statement yesterday did he say the reason he is opposed to it is because it is not sovereign? If your point was valid, shouldn't he have stated that GEJ did not meet the requirements and he should change it to Sovereign National Conference as he earlier advocated? Do you call for its abortion because it is not sovereign or you call for a correction to meet what you earlier clamored for? You guys are clowns! You are not even helping Tinubu at all!

GEJ is a coward who will never call for a sovereign national conference, the national conference he has called for in the words of Tinubu is simply diversionary and deceptive

GEJ is trying to buy time and confuse people, Tinubu understand GEJ's script perfectly. i expect Femi okunrounmu to reject this appointment.
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there is a whole lot of difference between Sovereign National Conference and National Conference.


What Jonathan is proposing for is a National Conference, which when conducted the report can easily be made to gather dust.

What Tinubu is advocating for is a Sovereign National Conference

engroke: If I don't comment ere God wud not be happy, I actually served in osogbo between 2011 n 2012 @ osogbo grammar school. During my stay, I enjoyed the peaceful, clean economical osogbo but 1 thing I continue to criticize about the entire state is the educational system n the way osun indigenes worship Aregbe he appears to be a sharp guy that understand the politics of his homeland using ev ery opportunity 2 brainwash them. Aregbe was building new schools when d existing ones especially the 1 served were blessed wv delapitated class rooms, he hides under d guise of following d legacy of awolowo to deceive his people.to me he knows most of his people. Are illiterates and he is just outsmarting them what were they looking @ when he said all stdents shd wear same uniform, sing state anthem that does not relate to the state in any form nt even 1 lline of the anthem said anyfin abt osun. For osun indigenes they got what they wanted they asked 4 it here is it let them juss sit back and watch their hospital complex turn supermarkets when d poverty level in d state is very high how many peple would patronise the shorite self. There are lands in osogbo jaburata if he wants shopping mall let him build elsewhere and not such school that represents d state n shd b seen as a plus to the state

The new schools being built by Aregbesola, will it be used by students from Lagos state?

ematech2002: i wil not blame ogbeni for his action, osun deserve the purnishment, and to aregbe and his godfather, dey may nt value education cos dey are drop out as well. Da bin se da

To you : Feeding elementary primary school pupils balanced diet once a day for free is punishment.

Making more parents to enrol their wards to school and having the best primary school enrolment rate in nigeria is punishment

Building new and standard schools and moving the kids away from the former shanty schools mostly built in the 50's is punishment.

Employing teachers to shore up staffing strength in schools is punishment.

Giving out free school uniforms to pupils is punishment.

Giving out educational tablets (opon imo) to high school kids is punishment.

A fellow in the Nigerian Society of Engineers is a drop out.


From the above what i can conclude about you is that you have your head turned upside down, a sad pointer to our failed educational system.

Which kind of opinion poll is this?

The best way to conduct opinion is to simply ask, who will you vote for? not asking electorates to award marks for Political experience,Integrity,Antecedents,Responsibility and Competence, at the end of the day a typical electorate in anambra will not vote based on those criteria

Hmmmmn . The poor man and rich man will die, The good man and the wicked man will die. God understands.

I think what matters is the impact we made on earth

donmatin: d ideal of reshuffling is to make sure extra attention is given to students.

There are so many illogical folks here, This change will make monitoring and evaluation of schools and policy impact easier, improved learning and academic environment for students, standardisation of academic quality amongst public schools amongst others....

This kind of change or entrophy comes with some slight discomfort initially, but the big picture is massive gain to educational quality in osun.

Nothing much is going on in many of those poultry house like schools, the poor state of many of the schools encourages truancy on the part of students and teachers alike.

Human beings are usually afraid of change because of uncertainty, and more often than not oppose it.

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spade: LMFAO!!! A report by the bureau in Wikipedia! Chaaaaiii! Deadest!!!

And it's funny cuz the contributing writer who made that post on the ThisDay site, Tunde Odesola, is a resident of Osogbo, Osun State (probably a paid government butt licker). Nowhere else has that story been reported

Apart from thisday, as you said, other top dailies like punch, the nation, dailyindependent, the will e.t.c carried the news, and the NATIONAL BUREAU OF STATISTICS that was referenced by wikipedia has not come out to debunk the claims.

http://www.punchng.com/news/osun-tops-primary-school-enrolment-bureau/

http://thenationonlineng.net/new/osun-leads-in-nigerias-school-enrolment/

http://thewillnigeria.com/news/osun-leads-in-nigerias-school-enrolment/

http://dailyindependentnig.com/2012/12/aregbesolas-midas-touch-on-primary-school-pupils/.


All you dolts will continue to do is to rant, and in some few years, Osun will be a reference point in education standard.

Anvaller: This statement of urs in bold can not be true in the face of logic and I'd show u how. If a student lives at point A, a distance to the west of Oke Iragbiji sec schl which is situated at Point B and the new location, Baptist Schl is located at a distance to the east of Oke Iragbiji Sec Schl. Let's take that to be Point C. That means, the student who normally travels from Point A to Point B before would have to further make an additional travel to point C before reaching his new school every day. Ur claim just doesn't make any logical sense. U talked as if all students live and depart from ur home everyday.

And the main question should be when does student shuffling become a strategy to improve educational standard? Do u improve educational standard of students by unduly unsettling them? Oh that might be the best strategy cos I might have forgotten that APC can never do wrong. Absolute trash!!! And now u are using the case study of one school in Iragbiji to dismiss the reported inconveniences in Oshogbo and other location as if the same is true for every other locations. Since u don't live in Oshogbo, u have no basis to be a part of this convo either.

Your attempt at teaching logic failed. Teacher dont teach me nonsense #in fela's voice

Let me teach you simple logic.
Relocation of students from one school to another could mean the student house is now closer to his/her new school OR the the student house is now farther to his/her new school .

Please dont try to argue this with me, i know i am right.

donmatin: how many of you commenting are presently in osun state?am a Corper here precisely at Iragbiji.stop talking thrash bcus d students were not sent to locations not close to der houses.oke-iragbiji junior secondary is now located at baptist skull iragbiji which is not far from der homes.I walk every day from my house at oke-iragbiji to baptist.why not confirm from those here b4 u start antagonizing Rauf.

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.

dexter1983: Aregbesola inaugurates Middle School

Posted by: Our Reporter in Featured, News 7 hours ago

The Osun State government yesterday inaugurated the Salvation Army Middle School in Osogbo, the state capital.

The school is one of the 100 elementary, 50 middle and 20 high schools being built under the O’School initiative.

Parents and pupils defied the rain to witness the event.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola said the inauguration was a reaffirmation that Osun’s education policy is “a train engineered for a one-way trip to success”.

He said O’School was conceived at the education summit organised by his administration when he assumed office to address infrastructural decay in public schools.

Aregbesola said: “The summit was to address the decay we met in public schools, which we found unacceptable. The summit, attended by eminent Nigerians like the Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, came up with a reform blueprint to overhaul the public education sector.

“We have since been working assiduously to implement the reforms. The inauguration of this school is evidence that all is going as planned with our reform. As part of the reform, we decided to reorganise the school system into Elementary, Middle and High School categories.

“The Elementary Level, comprising pupils aged 6 to 9 corresponds with primary 1 to 4 in the existing system. The Middle Level is from primary 4 to Junior Secondary School (JSS III) for pupils aged 10 to 14, now classified as Grades 5 to 9. The High School Level covers ages 15 to 17 and corresponds with the Senior Secondary School III (SS III), known as Grades 10-12.”

Aregbesola said the Elementary and Middle Schools would each accommodate 900 pupils, while the High School is to accommodate 3,000 pupils.

He said the High Schools had a mega structure, comprising three schools with facilities for all subjects, including state-of-the-art laboratories, as well as recreation centres and a food court.

The governor said: “The overall aim of the reforms we are carrying out is to develop the new man intellectually, socially and morally. This new man is placed in the centre of the society where he views his development as part of and for the development of the society.

“This is a non-parasitic and non-oppressive man, who views his existence in the light of the growth of others. He views whatever he acquires to be subsumed in the overall interest of others. He is a man in himself and a man for society. This is the Omoluabi essence.”

Aregbesola urged parents to support the government by preparing their wards for the new system and dressing them up in the new uniform.

He said the government’s investment in education was already paying off with the improved performance of pupils in examinations.

The governor said besides the distribution of the Opon Imo (tablet of knowledge) and the school feeding programme, the economic ramification of the education reform was colossal.

He said: “Some 3,000 women have been employed for the Elementary feeding programme. This is in addition to the gains it has brought to the production capacity of farmers, who supply farm produce, poultry and beef for the food.”

Deputy Governor Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori, who doubles as the Commissioner for Education, said although the project did not come cheap, it was the crowning glory of the administration’s revolutionary agenda in the education sector.

Mrs. Laoye-Tomori said: “I feel like break-dancing, even at my age. I am excited and feel fulfilled. I thank God that I am alive to see the coming to fruition of a vision conceptualised and deployed by my indefatigable governor.”

Vice-Chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Education Sola Adeyeye said any nation that did not invest in the education of its youths would fail.

Adeyeye, who represents Osun Central Senatorial District, hailed the governor’s commitment in revamping education.

The professor of Molecular Biology said while many states have not accessed the UBEC funds because they could not contribute their counterpart fund, Osun had accessed it because it did not wait for the Federal Government to contribute its counterpart fund.

O’School Chairman Otunba Lai Oyeduntan said the state of education in the state was embarrassing before Aregbesola assumed office.

Oyeduntan said by the end of the year, 15 Middle, 13 Elementary and 10 High schools would be ready.

House of Assembly Speaker Najeem Salam said the administration’s policies had revived the education sector.
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For all those wondering if the new high schools will have laboratoties, the highlighted in red says it all

Unconfirmed reports says it is a small plane conveying Agagus body, over 20 feared dead.

delpee: 2000 students wearing the same uniform at that Okefia school (i know the place) makes me wonder. Are there enough labs/equipment and teachers/assistants to handle this large number of young students?

I know that merging of schools is a big issue for the poor. I'm aware of people who dropped out of school because their parents could not afford the cost of transportation. Is he providing free school buses?

IMO the mega school is not fantastic in design. Its just like the old big public schools in Lagos. The Rivers State mega schools are more modern, child friendly and probably better equipped.

Too much hype on what is happening in Osun by Lagos based indigenes really. Many residents complain about this. Comrade Aregbe should get real before its too late. I have nothing personal against him. Just a wish that he succeeds. He needs to dump the sychophants and listen to/ analyse alternative opinions before he ends up like Chief Akande.

. You will have to prove that the new schools do not have labs/equipments, or teachers in the old schools have been sacked or they resigned enmasse as such the new schools do not have enough teachers/assistants. I attended a public secondary school , and in my time the school population was over 4,000 and we were over 1800 in senior secondary school, and we had labs and equipments

More teachers are been recruited, as i am aware some resumed today.

The new session resumed today, how come you are aware of students who dropped out of school because their parents could not afford the cost of transportation ?

Rivers state has a budget almost 4 times that of Osun state, the Osun state has built its own kind of model school suitable for learning that meets the required functionality.

I will implore you not to allow the opposition in the state to tailor your opinion about the state govt, Do your thinking and assessment yourself.