LASG FROWNS AT NON-COMPLIANCE WITH ACADEMIC CALENDAR BY SOME SCHOOLS
The Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), has frowned at the non-compliance with the stipulated academic calendar by some schools in the State, just as it begins the compilation of names of those that failed to comply with the Tuesday 4th January, 2022, resumption date.
The Director-General of OEQA, Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni reiterated that part of the mandate of the Office is to develop a harmonised school calendar in conjunction with stakeholders in the education sector and ensure compliance, stressing that the monitoring exercise embarked upon by the officials of the Agency was to appraise the level of compliance with the resumption date, students’ presence and COVID-19 safety protocols.
Revealing that some schools disobeyed the directive, the DG explained that the Y2021/2022 harmonised school calendar was developed in conjunction with stakeholders in June 2021 to ensure uniformity in the education system. She said the agreement was communicated to all schools and associations to ensure equal educational standards and learning systems.
The Director-General, who decried noncompliance with the approved resumption date, said: “Last term, it was observed that despite extensive sensitisation on the importance of having a synchronised school calendar, many schools failed to comply with the mid-term break as mandated in accordance with the academic calendar”.
“During our recent exercise to monitor the level of compliance with Tuesday 4th January, 2022 resumption date, we observed that the level of compliance was low. We are going to seal the schools that have not adhered to the academic calendar with ‘Notice of Non-Compliance’ stickers and issue letters of invitation to the Administrators to visit our office in Alausa where further disciplinary actions will be taken”, the Director-General stated.
She emphasised the need for all schools, public and private, to comply with the academic calendar in order to ensure that an equal system of learning in all schools in Lagos State is achieved.
Seriki-Ayeni, therefore, urged school owners to communicate effectively with parents to prepare their wards early for resumption, stating that it takes an entire term to prepare for an upcoming term.
The Director-General also implored school owners to focus on values in schools and engage parents, students and staff on the need to come to school prepared in order to have a strong start.
This was my introduction to women's football. Lagos '89 took place right beside my house and the organisers did not think that women's football would draw such a large crowd, therefore they only deployed a few unarmed policemen for crowd control. However, Lagos, Bendel and Rivers states attracted a large number of people and there were many fights in the arena. They had to deploy mounted policemen at the latter stages of the competition.
My dad asked Westerhof to take a look at the Super Falcons and Westerhof said that what they really needed was a fitness trainer. Jo Bonfere was deployed to take charge of the team and the difference was clear.
naptu2: Women's football was not really taken seriously in the 1970s and '80s. What came to people's minds when you said "women's football" were comical matches that did not really comply with the rules of the game. They were novelty games that were played for comic relief, rather than real competitive matches. The situation was the same in most countries, but women's football was serious business in Scandinavia.
Then in 1989 FIFA decided to create a women's world cup (the first tournament was held in 1991) and Nigeria also decided to take women's football seriously.
So women's football was included in the 1989 National Sports Festival in Lagos. I went to watch most of the matches.
There was a huge gulf in class between the teams from Lagos, Bendel and Rivers and the other teams in the competition. Lagos, Bendel and Rivers were far better than all the other teams and none of the other teams could compete with them. The other teams looked like jokers.
Spectators who didn't think that women's football could be as interesting as men's football felt justified when they saw most of the teams play, but were totally shocked when they saw Lagos, Bendel and Rivers. Their players were very fit, trim and athletic (unlike players from other states). They could run, dribble and shoot very well.
Word spread quickly and the arena was always full when these three teams were playing. They beat the other states by 4 or more goals margin. Why were these three states so much better than the others?
Well, I didn't find out until the first women's national team, league and FA cup were organised in the early 1990s. Basically, these three states already had good female football clubs and the state teams were made up of players from these clubs.
Lagos State was basically made up of Jegede Babes players, Bendel State was the same as Ufuoma Babes of Benin and Rivers State was represented by players from Larry's Angels. These three teams dominated nigerian female football in the early 1990s.
naptu2: There was once a time that female football was not taken seriously in Nigeria. It was seen as a novelty and so you had novelty football matches between men and women in which the women were allowed to break all the rules of the game. It was done more for comic relief than for its entertainment value as a competitive sport.
My introduction to proper female football came in 1989. Lagos State hosted the National Sports Festival and the female football event took place in a venue that was not far from my house. So I walked there every evening to watch the matches.
There were three states that stood out from the rest, Lagos, Bendel and Rivers. The other teams were totally terrible, their players were not fit and they looked like comedians, but Lagos, Bendel and Rivers had proper football teams. The crowd had never seen women play football so well and those three teams had huge support among them. The three teams beat other teams with huge margins like 5-0 and 10-0.
I later found out why those three states were so good. They were the three states that had proper women's football clubs. Lagos State was basically the Jegede Babes team (owned by Princess Bola Jegede), Rivers State was made up of Larry's Angels players and Bendel State was made up of players from Ufuoma Babes.
(Some of the players that I saw in 1989 later went on to become superstars with the Super Falcons, but they were totally unknown back in '89).
The owner of Larry's Angels was Chief Larry Eze.
The Rivers State Government bought over the team many years later and they became known as Rivers Angels.
Chief Larry Eze discovered a lot of stars for Nigeria, for example, he convinced a young secondary school girl named Perpetua Nkwocha to play for Larry's Angels and she later became a superstar.
May his soul rest in peace.
naptu2: The junior teams continued to impress, but something had to be done about the Green Eagles.
The name was changed (with the help of Segun Odegbami) because it was felt that there's no such thing as a green eagle and Chief brought Westerhof to Nigeria.
Pity the Wonder Boy. He had qualified Nigeria for Maroc '88, then a foreigner (Manfred Horner) had been brought in to boss him. He once again had the chance to qualify Nigeria for a major tournament (Italia '90) when another foreigner was brought in to boss him (despite the fact that he had often had to use his own funds to hire buses to convey the Eagles to and from training). He wasn't happy and so there was the Yaounde disaster. The Wonder Boy left and eventually the Chairman came on board.
Old Man asked Westerhof to take a look at the female national team. They had been invited to the first ever female World Cup, China '91 and Old Man didn't want them to be disgraced. Westerhof took a look at them and said that what they really needed was a fitness trainer. He said that they were in really bad condition and they needed someone that would improve their physical conditioning. So he brought a fitness trainer called Johannes Bonfrere. The first test was a two-legged friendly series against the Dutch National Team. The Falcons were thrashed 5-0 at the National Stadium in Lagos. A week later, they lost 1-0 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium in Enugu. There had been some improvement.
Westerhof asked the NFA to allow Bonfrere to join the coaching staff of the Super Eagles, but the NFA rejected his request because it did not have enough money to pay Bonfrere. Westerhof (backed by Chief's financial muscle) offered to pay Bonfrere's salary. The NFA accepted his offer. The Eagles complained after their first training session with Bonfrere. It was too demanding
I went to that field every 4pm to see superstars before they became superstars. I saw Sabara live in 1984/85 before he won the World Cup. I watched NNB train live. I saw Amodu Shuaibu live in 1989/1990 (when he was still the enemy). I watched the players of Jegede Babes, Ufuoma Babes, Larry's Angels compete at Lagos '89, before the Nigerian Women's League was officially established.
I also saw the Algerians train during Nigeria 1980 (though, of course, they were already stars).
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My Mother Not Bothered About Hellfire Memes On Social Media, Son Of Controversial Nigerian Female Preacher Says
He urged social media users not to take his mother’s comments personal but to feel free to ignore or accept any of her sermons that align with their belief system.
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK JAN 07, 2022
Samuel, son of Funmilayo Adebayo, a lady evangelist branded Mummy G.O, has disclosed that his mother was not bothered about the hellfire memes that have flooded the social media.
He also clarified that many of the memes and wordings circulating online linked to his mother were doctored.
Samuel while speaking with PUNCH, said his 54-year-old mother has never forced people and her followers to believe her despite many of her controversial comments and actions.
He urged social media users not to take his mother’s comments personal but to feel free to ignore or accept any of her sermons that align with their belief system.
Samuel said, “Social media has always been a platform where anything can be posted at any point in time but everything that has been posted about her saying she said this and that are all lies, nothing is true about the memes, they are just fabricating the memes, everybody with their contents, writing all sorts of things and tagging her pictures. We are used to it; the best thing is to ignore them.
“Even though she said everything about hell, there is nowhere she said by fire, by force, people must agree and accept what she is saying. I don’t think she has ever made that kind of statement before.
“Everybody is entitled to believe what they want to believe. I don’t know why people are taking it personal. There is the freedom to believe whatever one wants to believe and neglect whatever one wants to neglect but there is always the freedom of expression. Even Christ didn’t say that people must accept Him by fore by force as the son of God.”
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