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The day I started respecting Mr. Obaseki was when my brother got a job in the state civil service without knowing anybody. He just did recruitment exams and interview and he passed. My brother was given appointment a week later. This happened despite the fact that my brother didn't know anybody in this administration. I really think this man is a technocrat, not a politician. We need men like him in our government.

4Ebiscoo:
A new World Bank report released recently says that only about 20 per cent of young Nigerian adults, who have completed primary education, can read. HENRY TYOHEMBA, in this report, takes a look at the 21st century method of teaching reading in early grade levels called ‘Jolly Phonics,’ as a way to improve reading skills in Nigeria.

o have a strong foundation in English literacy nowadays is believed to be a very fundamental prerequisite for children to survive and succeed, both in their educational and social lives.

Such has been a major issue with the Nigerian child as majority of them head into secondary schools with the future uncertain.

One of the most effective tactics for enhancing children’s early reading and literacy skills is through Jolly Phonics, a multi-sensory synthetic phonics method that gets children reading and writing from the early age.

This means that children are taught letter sounds with the right tools used to decode the English language. When reading a word, they recognise the letters and blend together the respective sounds.

Despite the popularity and its effectiveness, there are still factors responsible for the absence of the strategy, namely lack of teachers’ knowledge and some schools yet to accommodate it into their system.

Jolly phonics, which teaches children how to read and write using synthetic phonics, is widely recognised as the most effective way to teach children to read and write in English. The result of this famous method of teaching led to phonics becoming central to the UK curriculum, which is also one of the worlds’ most advanced, educationally.

LEADERSHIP Sunday checks revealed that most of the schools in the urban centres have embraced the modern method and it is having a drastic positive impact on the children as most can now read efficiently even in primary two.

Whereas, some schools dwelling in remote areas are not likely to get familiarised with the method, this however, calls for a need to install this into the curriculum in order to make it compulsory for all the schools to adopt this method of teaching.

In one of such, the principal of Santus Lumen Christy College, Abuja, Isaac Moji, revealed that with Jolly Phonics, His son in primary three, Senator, can read perfectly like an adult.

The World Bank report further warned that there is a looming learning crisis in global education, pointing out that schooling without learning was not just a wasted development opportunity, but also a great injustice to children and young people worldwide.

There is no fact denying that those children, who achieve a good start in the first few years of reading are very likely to have accelerated progress in their attainment throughout school as they engage with the curriculum. They are also very likely to achieve the skills valued by employers.

Moreover, there is no doubt that reading can change lives and can create opportunities which may otherwise be denied. Reading is a powerful, life-enhancing skill which is the entitlement of every child.

The new synthetic phonics system, which is being embraced by over 100 countries worldwide, is a method of teaching reading that ensures virtually all children can learn to read quickly and skillfully.

Children are taught the correspondences between sounds (Phonemes) and letters. They identify and blend different letter sounds and letter combinations together to make a word. Through this, children take the first important steps in learning to read. They can also use this knowledge to begin to spell new words they hear.

The executive secretary, National Commission For Colleges of Education (NCCE), Professor Muhammad Babba Aliyu, recently said the commission is leveraging on enshrining the internationally recognised method of teaching reading known as Jolly phonics in the NCCE curriculum.

He said this while speaking recently in Abuja at the international symposium tagged, ‘the Future of Teaching Early Grade Literacy in Nigeria,’ organised in partnership with Universal Learning Sloutions (ULS) to develop a first class pre-service teacher training in Nigeria.

He said it is of a great disservice to the Nigerian child that after primary school, he still remains illiterate. Represented by the director of academic, Mr Vitalis Uji, the NCCE boss said, ‘Now that submissions are being collated in preparation for NCE national review workshop on languages, my desk officer and the participants will leverage on the insights espoused in this workshop to ensure that this internationally recognised method of teaching reading is enshrined in the NCCE curriculum.”

Recently, commenting on the need to embrace this Universal method of learning, the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) said that the federal government has invested about N2 billion on the introduction of jolly phonics teaching method in schools across the country.

The fund, according to the commission, was to provide funds for the state government for implementation of the jolly phonics projects in schools by UBEC under its teacher professional development fund.

The public relations officer of UBEC, Mr Ossom Ossom, said the landmark achievements were recorded through partnership with the UK-based educational publisher-Jolly Learning Ltd, and the not-for-profit organisation, Universal Learning Solutions.

According to him, through the partnership, on the Jolly phonics project, over 50,000 teachers in public schools across 31 states in the country have been trained and have reached approximately 3.5 million children.

He further added that, the result from the beneficiary states have highlighted how children, taught by Jolly phonics trained teachers to read and write, were significantly above those taught by teachers who have not been exposed to the jolly phonics method.

On his part, the central executive officer (CEO) of Jolly Phonics, Mr Gary Foxcroft, said the method of learning was introduced to Nigeria in 2012 to help children to read and write as many are leaving primary school without knowing how to read.

According to him, “We are looking at how we can ensure teachers have systematic synthetic phonics and resources to help children to read and write in order to ensure that all the children are learning to be literate.”

It is however, of importance to note that most of the states in Nigeria are wholly embracing this new method of teaching in order to boost the standard of literacy in the country.

Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and Universal Learning Solutions (ULS) for instance, have recently partnered to deliver intensive training to over 500,000 teachers and dedicated government officials in Jolly phonics.

There is need for other states to key into this to save the future of our children.

https://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2018/10/enhancing-literacy-through-jolly-phonics.html

Jolly phonics is a wonderful play way method by which children as young as 3years old can learn how to read. It has been in existence more than 10 years ago.

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Okeycima:
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IamLEGEND1:
I know.... But This is GoT
There are people who ship Sansa/Danaerys
Jon/Jamie
Arya/Meera
there's even a ship for Cersei and Hot pie.
The Jon/Sansa ship didn't really gain much traction until this season which is what really surprised me...... Coz as far as I can tell, Jon and Sansa's relationship is the same at it was.

Lol. These ships are ridiculous. Some of these characters have never even met. Anyway, people can ship anything

I found out about this ship since season 6. They call them Jonsa

michigano:
[color=#006600][/color]"Give me Ten good men and I'll impregnate the bitch"

Tyrion Lannister Game of thrones

idyicy45:
bend the knee

Game of thrones

ayandarenoni:
"the bride family dances first"

Wedding party

Good day everyone, please can someone who is currently running a pgde program in Nti tell me when the 1st semester exams starting. I know it is normally in August. But I want to know the particular date in August.

The way Marvis is staring at Tboss, are you sure this girl does not have lesbian vibes

frankfiny:
Marvis is the most sensibe person in that clique i must admit.. She manipulates Efe because he knows Efe doesnt think far..Yet she doesn't make enemies with the opposite team cause no one knows tommorow.[b][/b]. She played a very good game in this show.. That's why she is still in the house

Bisola already said that there are some people she would not like to have their phone numbers after the show

akthedream:
THIS KIND LEVEL?.... IS THIS WHAT YOU WISH FOR YOURSELF?.. YES?... CAN I HELP YOU SAY AMEN TO IT?

Gbam! And they will say that they are the fantastic 4 and have the grace of God with them. God don suffer. All I know is that since Debbie started associating with Tboss, she has become more confident in her looks and speech

akthedream:
THIS KIND LEVEL?.... IS THIS WHAT YOU WISH FOR YOURSELF?.. YES?... CAN I HELP YOU SAY AMEN TO IT?

Gbam! Then they call fantastic 4 and they have the grace of God. God don suffer. The only thing I know is that since Debbie started associating with Tboss, she has become more confident in her looks and her speech. Nice

akthedream:
THIS KIND LEVEL?.... IS THIS WHAT YOU WISH FOR YOURSELF?.. YES?... CAN I HELP YOU SAY AMEN TO IT?

Gbam! Then they call fantastic 4 and they have the grace of God. God don suffer

ninnyanny:
Forget whatever is happening Debby belittled her self before Tboss. Debby would have been on the same level as efe and Bisola,if only she didn't soil her hands in Tboss' scheme .

why would Debbie associate with the likes of Bisola and Efe's when they nominate her at every given opportunity. Efe said Debbie is not real because she says nice things about people. What is that

nathz45:
[b]I see even Ebuka and BBN organizers re jealous of Efe's popularity, trying to turn HMs against Efe, they even went to the extent of going back of their word concerning the Ultimate head of house issue[b/]

Was it only Efe's that was in the spot, what about Marvis? Moreover, Ebuka said the ultimate HOH would qualify for the top 6 not the finals. Go and watch the clip again. I am tired of all these conspiracy theories

Next week, Debbie rise and Tboss will be nominated and Tboss will leave next Sunday. All the evicted housemates teams will vote Debbie rise and she is winning this game. Quote me in the next three weeks

You can see a very real #Tboss speaking to Efe right in his face. Pointing to him and telling him he is a bit harsh on her. Now tell me who is more real. If she lives today, I have made up my mind that Tboss is more real than una Savior Efe

ninnyanny:
Biggie weldone sir
U told us ultimate hoh
Would enable the winner go
Into the final....
OK
We are watching sha

Ebuka said the ultimate HOH would qualify for the top 6, not the final. You people should really improve in your listening skills

Efe says he is real and he couldn't tell Ebuka who is the least real person in the house. He couldn't say it to the person's face. Is this what you call real. SMH. That is why Tayo and Karen are very real. They would put themselves up for nominations. Which of these housemates have ever done this.

I just got this from the comment section of sdk blog
Manipulative- Definition:

exercising unscrupulous control or influence over a person or situation.
synonyms: scheming, calculating, cunning, crafty, wily, shrewd, devious, designing, conniving, Machiavellian, artful, guileful, slippery, slick, sly, unscrupulous, disingenuous, media-savvy; informal :foxy

Now.... This word has been used several times to define TBoss, but is she any of the above? Other housemates talk about her(gossip) in ways to convince their pals into believing she is such and such... But has TBoss ever cornered anyone with the purpose of changing their views about any particular housemate? She vents off after a fight but never paints anyone black. But every other HM has at one time or the other had a gossip party, bad mouthing TBoss to the public or their cliques to make her look bad. Now who is manipulative in the sense of the word? Is it Efe who constantly washes her in black to Biggy, the public or other housemates? Or Bally who agrees to anything Efe says just to be in his good books? Bisola that tried to rope her into a relationship with TTT so the public will lash out at her? Bassey who, hates her but keeps roving around her to create drama between her and her supposed friend Debbie just to remain relevant in the game? Or Debbie, who told her crush that Tee's boobs are fake just to make his interest in her fade? Or Marvis, who suddenly became clingy to her "husband" as soon as he won the ultimate head of house? Tee asks other housemate for favours in a nice way and they do it but later turn around to call her manipulative. And there they go gossiping TBoss again....:

Papykush:
Kemen's fault is not him being a too know, neither was about him being a talkative.

Kemen's fault was because he is is ugly...Of Jon was the one with Kemen's attitude people will still love him even Tboss will throw herself sheepishly at him.

If Kemen was the one with Jon's attitude people will still hate him and call him dull.

This is my last comment about Kemen as far as this show is concerned

There have been some so called ugly housemates in previous seasons of big brother and most of them had good characters. The problem with Kemen was not be he was ugly, the problem was that he talked too much especially when he said all the tricks he uses to rape a girl

This is my first time commenting on this thread. Sorry to all Bisola's fans but I have to be very blunt. Bisola is beyond pathetic. I was watching the program today and you need to see the way Bisola is following TTT like a bitch on heat. I feel so ashamed. Pathetic. Let the insults come but I just said the truth

Luizkid:
but to be fair on Efe, dude was just shown a flash of the image very shorter than the preceding hms

Go and watch the video again, Efe's own was also twice. The guy is not mentally smart. Period

okabe:
I give up, these guys are daft...4 basic colours, 2 identical shapes, 1 single pattern...and y'all are fumbling.

wetin wan happen when dem give una rubiks cube to solve?

This is just a simple Montessori puzzle that even a 5 year old can solve

Rayd502:
Why Tboss no wan kiss na?

If Na Bally or Bassey or ttt, she go still try small

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I passed as early as 5am and I can confidently tell you that the rescue services where all stand by. However, the truck did not burn, it only turned over and spilled fuel on the expressway.

sotall:
First try another working battery on the laptop and observe if it will charge . if it doesnt charge , also try another charger.
if problem persist, you need to see an engineer

thanks

Hello engineer, I have a Hp mini laptop, any time I charge the battery, the battery indicator says plugged in, not charging. Please what do I do?

kaywiluv:
U didn't give us update ooo, 1 foolish corp member of ours went to touch our dish ooo, all stations are skipping, so we can't even watch any programme until Monday I guess. So please update from Tuesday or a site to read from am waiting thanks in advance.

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