dokie:
We have been saying for ever: we need to rejig this shithole of a country as anything else is a waste of time. The north has been in power for a better part of the nations independence, but is still the most poverty, illiteracy and insecurity stricken region in the country. What else do we need to know that zoning is useless?

I'm supposed to be supporting Orji Uzor Kalu who wants to be president as an igbo man; but i ask myself: to what end? Orji was useless as a governor. he couldn't do shit for Abians for 8 years, but he is supposed to now make igbo land paradise as president? Rubbish. To hell with Igbo presidency or any presidency.

Just restructure this thing or better still let all of us go our separate ways and just maybe we may see genuine progress for our various nations in our lifetime.



God pass them how exactly? weather he is saying it for selfish reasons or not, what he is saying is the truth. Lets say OUK or Rochas become president tomorrow, how exactly will it favor your children and grandchildren? or you are looking for bragging rights on nairaland? The igbo man that will become president will only benefit his family and close allies from the east, west, north and south. If you do not know, there are many igbo men making a kill from this government while many people from daura are dying of hunger. There are igbos doing big contracts in lagos and many from iragbiji or wherever Tinubu is from that have died of penury. The present political system is Paddy Paddy.




Weaken the center, empower the regions, stop the sharing of oil money, let every region fend for themselves, get the charlattans out of government (since free money wont be available anymore) and no one will talk about Biafra again.

May your head never lack oil!

The End is coming to either the current structure of the country, or if not careful the existence of Nigeria.

morikee:


Guy call for Revolution is Treason there is nowhere it's allowed.

Have you read the book Animal Farm? Pls do. I read it 24yrs ago but I still remember.

When your oppressors tells you it is a crime for you to resist oppression, and you the oppressed chorus it like an article of faith. SMH.

pfadom:
Bunch of jobless and thoughtless people. They ignored tact and strategy during the 2019 general elections. When we should have strategised to have better candidates, all of them wanted to become president. They felt too big for House of representatives or house of assembly and Senate, all of them were greedy to become president without any sense of compromise.

I wonder why the teeming supporters could not sense that they only eye the topmost office without any solution to the prevailing problems.

If they like let them protest, the best protest is through the ballot. Their families will sell what doesn't exist to bail them in due time.

You keep whining.

But leave those who can make a difference do so.

I hope our eyes are getting clearer by the day. These politicians are just seeking their own ambitions. They don't care about the people.

Please help us tell Tinubu that we Yoruba don't really care about who becomes Nigeria's president in 2023. We want a Restructured Country! Simple.

This country's present structure can only increase poverty and underdevelopment.

#RestructureNow!

Press Release

Oyo State Calendar for Schools Resumption And Examination For Terminal Classes

The Oyo State Executive Council at its meeting today 21st of July 2020 has approved the academic calendar to guide resumption of schools and other associated educational activities in the State.

According to the approved calendar, Third Term 2019/2020 session has been cancelled and promotion of students, for all affected classes, will now be determined by First and Second Term Continuous Assessment.

Pry 6, JSS 3 and SSS 3 will proceed on holiday from 30th of July and resume for their Examination as follows;

*Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)- 10th to 18th August 2020

*Competitive Entrance Examination into the Schools of Science- 19th August 2020

*Placement/Screening Test to JSS1- 20th August 2020

*Placement Test into Technical Colleges- 28th August 2020

*The SSS 3 will resume for their Examination as soon as WAEC announce the date.

*The 2020/21 academic session, according to the calendar approved by the State Council is as follows;

*First Term- 21th September to 18th December 2020

*Second Term- 11th January to 9th April 2021

*Third Term- 3rd May to 30th July 2021

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology enjoins all stakeholders and members of the public to take note of the details of the academic calendar.

proffemi:

According to you, disease incidence is increasing, but yet we should open schools so it can increase more? How can you defend that? Is it that you think COVID doesn't kill, or that if it takes only a certain number of lives, reopening would be worth it?


No, we will not stay home for five years. But we do need reasonable guidelines or assurances that we are not putting lives at risk.

I will leave you with some of the guidelines. Tell me that most secondary schools (which are criminally underfunded in the first place) in Nigeria will do #3 to #6.

1. Equip and resource schools for improved teaching and learning methods for special needs learners.
2. Provide WASH facilities including soap, hand sanitizers, and girls’ dignity kits in schools
3. Establish and adequately equip dispensaries and clinics as appropriate
4. Create adequate classrooms and learning spaces to maintain safe distancing in schools
5. Provide better ventilated classrooms and TLCs
6. Use solar power and alternative energy sources for electricity, and boreholes for water (which human being put this here?)

I repeat, we can reopen anytime, but the evidence suggests that we haven't yet reached a point where it is safe to do so. That is what the Fed Ministry of Education is saying, and for once, they got it right. Forget the pressure from private school proprietors and their teachers, like a certain clown above. When there is evidence that we can safely do so, we should reopen schools. That may be next 2 weeks, it may be next month. Before then, we shouldn't play games with lives.

Those facilities you want provided for all schools in Nigeria may not materialize in the next 5 yrs. We all know our country na. So should schools shut down till then?

Do you know how many teachers and private school owners have died because they cannot afford drugs? Do you know the economy is drowning fast and school economy is not little? Do you know how kids have been raped, molested, and abused because parents need to go hustle for food? Ironically those parents exposed to Covid-19 would still come home and infect these children you so want to be locked up.

On the economy again, do you know how many people who don't go to work (and so not economically productive) just because they want to stay at home with the kids?

Finally, Oyo State has opened schools partially. We have not heard of multiple deaths of teachers and students. 'We should wait longer for the deaths', you may say. But I assure you if (indeed) deaths increase in Oyo State, it is only taking its share of death toll early. Every state would eventually open up and then take their own share.

proffemi:

Sorry, I am an academic, so forgive me for asking what gives you this confidence?Where is the evidence?



You are obviously not a teacher, or don't have kids in the age bracket we are talking about. You actually think kids in Gragra Village College will follow those silly guidelines? Did you actually go through the original guidelines?

Finally, do you honestly believe Nigerian kids and schools will be more disciplined than their Israeli counterparts? Do you know that the Israeli experiment with reopening their schools is falling apart as we speak?

You cannot be more concerned than I am; I have kids writing SSCE. But you cannot just wave your hands and tell us that everything is okay. Show us the facts, show us the evidence and show us *realistic* guidelines.

Your kids that might have Covid-19 and recovered unknown to you! Hehe!

Nigeria is not working.

A restructuring may be a way to go.

I think southern governors should examine the situation critically and come up with their own agenda. It may or may not align with what the northern states want.

In fact, only 16 states have a decision to make. Oyo state had already made a decision.

zill:


You should be the one to shut up, if you have kids you'll understand every parents fears. The kids are more vulnerable to these virus.

This is just emotions, not facts.

How many children have been hospitalized due to Covid-19 world wide?

stzy:
Those teachers needs to be re trained

How can you be a teacher and don't do research.
NCDC released a guideline on the use of face masks and face shield.
They stated that face shield is not enough but must be used with a face masks

In the markets, do they know what is called face shield? And all the above 50yrs never die finish.

What's my point? Most people will defeat Covid-19 without even knowing they had it.

ojorich:
Nigeria may have become the epic centre of the corona virus without the citizens even knowing. If as of today the NCDC has tested only 152,000 persons of a population of over 200,000 million and recording a confirmed positive cases of 29,000. It then invariably means that if the testing capacity steps up and 152million people were to be tested, we might be recording a staggering 29million positive covid 19 cases with a vast majority most likely to be asymptomatic!! God help us all

God has ALREADY help you. You yourself said majority might be asymptomatic meaning Covid-19 won't kill 99.9%(my own layman estimate) of our people.

Great! Nice!
Well done NSE. U hope telcos will do so to, not only spending on entertainment.

Harbdulrasaq:
Nigeria’s problems are not the illiterates; they are the half educated! People who actually went to school and graduated but never seem to apply the knowledge!

1. School resumes for what reason in this global pandemic? WAEC is West African based so we can’t write SSCE even if school resumes; Economic reasons? When inter state travels are relatively still locked; JSS3 Exams? How many of you collected yours to further your education

2. If coronavirus is false; let them resume schools and see the outcome; Israel had to shutdown schools back; so let’s learn from Oyo

3. School and education; very important but after this lockdown, economic reforms should be top priority not opening schools

Oga, the purpose of school is to learn not to write exam.

CoronaVirusPro:


People like you encouraged Greg Abbott. Where is he today? He is on the hot seat. Definitely regretting his moves

People were dying in thousands in another state in the same country na. Unlike us, people are not dying anyhow.

Seetto:
It will be practically impossible for makinde to win second term..

I think he won't win only if doesn't contest.

A lot of first commenters are very intelligent people unlike some other threads.

Oyo government is not risking the lives of children as many people say. He is being realistic here where other governors hiding their heads in the sand. Come to think about it. The children are the least vulnerable to Covid-19 anywhere in the world. Those are waiting for children to die in hundreds in Oyo State will be disappointed.

These same children are playing ball all over the place; some are hawking, selling in markets, etc. They have not been dropping dead with all those exposures. It is now schools will start killing them!Lol!

Schools have been asked to raise their disease prevention protocol. Students must wear masks, wash their hands, maintain social distance, etc. In Bodija market, none of those protocols are followed and thankfully, Covid-19 has not killed many of our people.

Makinde may go down as a leader who saw ahead of others, including the baba in aso rock.
He says Covid-199 will be hear a long time. Cases will keep rising till 2022. Will we keep our schools shut till then?


Finally, someone said let's shutdown till vaccine comes. Do you have an idea of the cost of the vaccine? Is it this govt that cannot give 10k palliative to it's citizens that will procure vaccines for 200m people? Answer me!

What is all this funny pouring of emotion over a dog that has been shot? I can't understand.

Humans get killed some of you blame the victim for going alone at night. Now they are spilling emotions over a dog!! SMH

"But in a statement signed by the chairman, Niyi Akinsiju, and Secretary, Cassidy Maduekwe, the BMO said: “They masquerade as a Forum of Northern Elders but have no business pretending to speak for northern interests, neither are they fit for such representation."


Southern people used as Cannon fodder in a Northern Elders vs government clash.

SMH!

fortran12:

While people eat fresh air for breakfast lunch and dinner

People wey dey chop no know say some people hungry.

SMH.

If all these people hungry for one week, na dem go say make government open up.

VIPERVENOM:
so u mean malaria kills more than 240k ppl every year in Nigeria? More than half of deaths worldwide? Why u dey lie like this now?

So you think less than 500k die every year world wide? Even in Nigeria deaths per year may exceed 500k.

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iKingsley:
Hmm, the irony of life.

When we had less than 200 cases of coronavirus we went on lockdown; now, it's over 12k cases and we are disengaging the lockdown.

Las las, we go dey alright!

When I read posts like these, I wonder if you understand the whole Covid-19 matter. You think Covid-19 is something that will just vanish like harmattan?

Keep waiting till cases are zero before you open up. You may wait for a few years.

Great development! It looks small but great things start small.

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PrinceMajestic:
They believe Allah gave them Nigeria as their promise land but they know is your Ancestral land. Just like sky god of christians showed people's ancestral land to Israelites as promise land. But you Christian support such evil in Bible but Allah and his Fulani terrorists are doing the same sh!t to you then why upset?

If (that's a big IF) God truly gave them Nigeria, nothing anyone can do about it. God gave Israel Canaan. What could the people of Canaan essentially do about it? Nothing.

When these Fulani guys are put in their rightful place then we will know God didn't give them NADA.

IgboSomalia:
In the heat of the Niger Delta crisis, it was already beginning to affect global oil prices and threatened the reelection of George Bush Jr. He then asked Obasanjo to come to the US to see him. Obasanjo retorted that as at the time he (Obasanjo) was President for the first time, even George Bush's father had not become President. That of George Bush wanted to see him, he should come to Nigeria. Omo, George Bush Jr. ran to Naija o.

Besides that, even Ghafaffi came for an African Union summit in Abuja, he brought about 200 female bodyguards, all armed. Obasanjo ordered that if Ghafaffi wanted to step into Abuja, all his bodyguards should be disarmed. Ghafaffi threatened to trek from the airport to Abuja City centre in protest, Obasanjo didn't even answer him. They were disarmed and nothing happened.

During Obasanjo's time, the Queen of England also came to Nigeria for the CHOGM event. That event brought in dozens of foreign leaders.

Where did you get this drunken men gist? Where? Tell me.

POTUS will run to Nigeria because of oil price? Who is Nigeria in oil price matter? What is our market share globally?

If you want to market OBJ, please do so with facts not funny fables.

BreconHills:


Surely you know the difference between conventional and asymmetrical warefare. Did the US conquer the Taliban in Afghanistan or defeat the Vietcong? Did the UK defeat the IRA? Which conventional army has defeated an insurgency anywhere in the world? Nigeria should be the first abi?

The only way of defeating terrorism is to destroy the conditions that feed the insurgency. That is the "war" we should be tracking.

So Taliban is in US territory.

How many people have IRA killed in the last 10years? Are they up to 100?

Compare oranges with oranges bro.

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