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Isn't there some form of tracker on the jet

felzylix: Poorly managed aircraft

lol, I think say Na only Nigerian air space no safe

(must Read) Why Nigerian Universities Is
More Better Than Ghana Universities.....

your topic should be, why Nigerian Universities are better than Ghanian Universities.

ammyluv2002: Wait o! So Amaechi dey use BB? As in BB with EDGE sef?....kai! My respect for you don fall flat, see the twitter app sef ........ I'm so disappointed right now

where do you come from, didn't you realise you were looking at the phone of the op who munched his screen? abeg no fall hand

Aregbesola's Three Years in the Saddle
Gov Rauf Aregbesola
Yinka Kolawole assesses the administration of
Mr. Rauf Aregbesola in Osun State, three years
after assuming office and concludes that the face
of politics in the state may have changed for
good
When Mr. Rauf Aregbesola was declared the
governor of Osun State, expectation was high.
The people hoped for rapid development. This
was not just because he had assured the people
that his government would unlock the latent
potential of the state and its people; it is also
because he had been critical of the ousted
former governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola.
As the years pass, the people were ready to take
him to accountability and obviously, successes
have been recorded in different sectors of the
state. A close look at the administration's style
reveals that some drastic steps were taken to
solve some problems that confronted the state in
time past.
A case in point is the transformation that has
been witnessed in the area of education in the
last few years. Prior to the coming of the
Aregbesola administration, the reformation of the
education sector was considered a tall dream as
public education was badly managed. Students,
especially those in primary schools were un-
catered for; they were roughly dressed and mal-
nourished. School buildings were in dilapidated
state, students’ performances both at the
internal and external examinations were generally
poor. In the higher institutions, tuition fees in
the state-owned tertiary institutions were beyond
the reach of most Osun indigenes.
Piqued by the backwardness in the sector, an
education summit was convened in to critically
examine the problems hampering progress in the
sector with a view to proffering workable
solutions and the communiqué of the summit,
which contained recommendations on the way
forward, became the blueprint for the
development of the sector.
First, two pairs of unified school uniforms was
provided for each of the 750,000 pupils in all the
public primary and secondary schools across the
state to boost the morale of the students and
further promote unity among public schools. This
was at whopping cost of N800million. It is in
addition to the N1.8billion injected for the
running of basic education in the state, including
the provision of examination and running grants,
as well as education instructional materials for
public schools.
The school uniform project also created jobs for
no fewer than 3,000 tailors who were contracted
by the government to sew the new uniforms
made of Adire batik. The material itself was
chosen to empower the artisans and Adire
makers in the state and as well make the state a
reference point for its creativity.
The state is also committing the sum of
N30billion to give a new lease to the structures
and classrooms where pupils study, in line with
the recommendations of the summit. Under the
arrangement, the state government is
constructing 170 new model schools across the
state to replace the dilapidated buildings and
with state of the art facilities.
Twenty of the schools are for students in the
Senior Secondary Schools, SSS1 to SSS3, when
completed, each is expected to conveniently
accommodate 3,000 students on the basis of 40
per class.
Each of the structures, expected to come with an
examination hall that can comfortably seat 1,500
students and two e-libraries; one for sciences
and the other for arts and social sciences would
cost N700 million, according to the government.
Many of these school buildings have since been
completed and commissioned.
For Junior Schools, from Primary five to Junior
Secondary School three (JSS3), 50 of them
would be constructed, each accommodating 1,
250 students while the elementary schools,
primaries one to four, which would be 100 pieces
across the state, would conveniently
accommodate 900 pupils.
To further stimulate the interest of students to
learning, the government recently replaced books
with a computer tablets invented for that
purpose. The equipment, designed in form of an
iPad called 'Opon Imo,' contains the entire senior
school syllabus, including Yoruba traditions, past
questions of the West African Examination
Council (WAEC), National Examination Council
(NECO) and Joint Administration and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) for 10 years. All
these are aimed at turning learning into playing
in schools and at homes.
Part of the efforts at encouraging enrolment of
children in public schools is the rejuvenation of
the school feeding programme, tagged O’MEAL.
The action has reportedly increased the
enrolment figure in public primary schools by 40
per cent in the last session, with further increase
envisaged in future because in order to sustain
the programme, government also said it was
committing N3billion annually for its
implementation.
Government also increased the running and
examination grants per student in public
secondary schools to N150 and N400 making a
total of N550 against the N150 made available
by the last administration in the state and N400
per pupil in primary schools, saying it was
investing about N500 million annually for the
scheme.
The government intervened in the school fees
paid by students in all the five state-owned
tertiary institutions by reducing the fees payable.
For those at the polytechnic and College of
Technology, the fee was reduced from N42,000
to N25,000, while those in the state university
was slashed from N205,000 for Law and Medical
Students to N100,000. Sciences was reduced
from N155,000 to N75,000 while Social Sciences
and Art now pay N75,000 as against N130,000.
Another milestone in the educational sector
under the current administration was the
scholarship offered to all the 98 medical
students of Osun State University (Uniosun) for
their clinical courses so as to complete their
medical programme in far away Ukraine. The
intervention reportedly gulped N146million at the
rate of $7,000 per student. It comprises of the
cost of training, accommodation and others.
Their parents are only to take care of their
feeding.
These successes in the education sector are
attributable to the education summit
spearheaded by renowned Nobel Laureate,
Professor Wole Soyinka and other stakeholders in
the education sector, which was convened by the
current administration shortly after assuming the
mantle of leadership on November 27, 2010.
In the area of security, Osun has attained a
peaceful status and with the lowest crime rate
because government places premium on security
of lives and property because insecurity poses
big challenge to direct investment both local and
foreign.
The government had set up dedicated crime
response team nicknamed Swift Action Squad
(SAS). It is visible in strategic areas in the state
as well as identified flash points. They are
equipped with five Amoured Personnel Carriers
(APCs) and 25 patrol vans for surveillance.
Government also constructed two state-of-the-
art police stations and multi-force security
control centre. While additional 100 patrol vans
are to be provided for the SAS and seven more
police stations to be built.
Generally, the state is believed to have shown
enough commitment to guaranteeing effective
and efficient crime detection, prevention and
control.
In tackling poverty and to provide better living
condition for the people, government embarked
on some structural empowerment programmes
that targeted both the young and old. One of
such is 'Agba Osun', put in place as a social
security for the old people in the state. There
was a comprehensive enumeration and selection
of about 1,600 most vulnerable people across the
state and they were placed on a monthly stipend
of N10, 000 for their upkeep. The concept has
helped the vulnerable elders and taken them off
the streets.
Still in the bid to address the problems of
poverty, the government has been involved in
massive empowerment of youths, which is
reflective in the 20, 000 youths employed within
the first hundred days of the government in
power. Tagged OYES, the youth volunteers were
engaged to render community service and placed
on a monthly stipends of N10, 000.
Through this empowerment scheme also, about
5000 youths trained to acquire special ICT skills
in the OYESTECH have all graduated with some
of them employed by private organisations and
others empowered by government through soft
loans to start their own business.
Similarly, the OREAP programme also
empowered 600 youths in the government’s agric
enterprise academy as well as sponsored 50
youths to Germany to acquire advanced farming
skills. While no fewer than 6000 qualified youths
have been engaged as teachers in state’s public
schools and to provide the school feeding
scheme for the elementary school in the state,
3000 caterers prepare the meals for the children.
The Rauf Aregbesola administration has provided
N100m counterpart funding to the UN-Habitat
initiative to explore the state’s urban renewal
potential. It will focus on rural-urban
developmental potential. The partnership is
sequel to the collaboration of the state
government with UN-Habitat for the preparation
of structured plans for nine cities.
The cities, which include Osogbo, Ife, Ilesa,
Ejigbo and Ikire, among others, have been
earmarked for urban renewal by the state
government.
The partnership agreement was concluded at the
UN-Habitat headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya,
during the 24th governing council meeting of the
agency. The state’s N100m contribution was
fully paid last year by the government.
For healthcare delivery, the state has introduced
and sustained free health service for all age
strata across the state. Its planned healthcare
facilities are to be located in such a way that the
people, either living in rural or urban areas,
would have direct access, to them effortlessly.
Consequently, government planned the location
of the facilities in such a way that the sighting of
the hospitals, referral hospitals and healthcare
clinics fall within reasonable radius to one
another across the state.
Within the years under review, government has
built 74 additional primary health centres across
the state.
In the past two years, government has carried
out six medical and surgical missions to offer
free treatment and surgeries to thousand people.
Provisions have been made for over N300m
worth of drugs to state hospitals and primary
health centres.
There has been human capacity building in the
health sector with about 400 youths engaged as
paramedics to join the Osun Ambulance Service
Authority. Attention has also been on training
and upgrading of cadres of health sector.
The idea behind this retraining is for the medical
personnel to be exposed to latest medical
technologies and techniques in various fields of
medical practice. Hence, the Osun government
has committed N18 million for sponsorship of six
medical personnel to the University of
Magdenburg Teaching Hospital, Germany for
further training.
Considering the relative security of lives and
property guaranteed in the state, investors are
now considering Osun as the next destination to
be.
Dagbolu, which is less than five kilometres
outside Osogbo, is expected to be a logistic
village where various warehouses would be
specifically built for relevant investors and
manufacturers so that their goods would be sold
to the people of the state at the exact prices
they are being sold at Oke Arin in Lagos. There
are also international markets for ready-made
products located in the state to open it up for
commerce and industry.
Perhaps, in three years, Aregbesola has lived up
to billings and can as well take his chances in
the next election.


http://thisdaylive.com/articles/aregbesolas-three-years-in-the-saddle/165334/

9Willywilly: I have nothing against Buhari APC, but he is someone with too much blood of innocent infants on his hand,
Buhari tied the hands of innocent unarmed igbo Kids, women and shot them in the name of revenge, he is a heartless creature.
No sane Igbo will associate himself with such a person

oh, so tell me how did someone with such abysmal intellect as you manage to escape been shot, please don't tell me you were told the story by the elders in your village...

Lee Herds: Let he who is without sin be the first to cast the stone... Akamu stealers accusing a pro..notin 'll come out of dis C'tee,she go chop am go ..I swear I love Nigeria!!

you are loving nigeria now but i hope you won't regret it in the future, and your unborn generation...

i downloaded the apk file and also directly from play store , but it doesn't install but brings out ' problem parsing package' ...please help me out.

wow, i don miss out today sha, hope say cake never finish...happy birthday to you oga naptu wish you many more years

where are the english and literature in english students? abi una wan carry last

you are a r£tard, right?

haba, you dey para o

rubbish...so you sef dey find pardon

the poster must have disvirgined himself or the lady by now, so i don't think he will be needing anymore advice, that been said i feel the whole disvirgining thing is a messy affair, not easy at all because of the pain, sweat and all

wolfenstein: I don download movie tire, ;Dmehn browsing dey swit o

abeg which site u dey download from

building a five star hotel doesn't seem to be to be the best idea right now, pls build more barracks or renovate existing ones, you can get revenue by aggressively producing military equipments as has been seen lately...other african countries will definately approach us to buy our products when tested and proven in turn serving as a major source of revenue to the army...

Tstark: This is NOT a good idea, yoruba people barely know how to speak English as it is, not this will only make it harder for them

that's the idea friend, better to be an expert and fluent in one's home language than a foreign language, you are failing to see the picture here, we don't care about another man's language, i study English language and every scholar in our field advocates placing emphasis on the home language because it's a tool for development in all ramifications most especially help to create a pride in one's origin and desire to help grow one's home, taking China , Japan , South Korea as an example shows what i am pointing out here, they accepted foreign technology but rejected the foreign language, we know the national pride those people have in themselves including their own manufactured products, before we begin to export our ideals, products, culture, language etc we have to develop our pride in our home language and what better place to begin than at the cradle...English is still another man's language no matter how much importance it is accorded.

you are still smoking beetle shit abi, vake news at its best

playcharles: Information reaching us... ASUU call off strike!

Big lie, this morning the federal government asked ASUU to provide 8 undergraduates that are still virgins and they will meet their demands...so stop spreading false news

Shine u Eye: For nearly a year now, if its not Fashola meets a/b/c then it'll be Fashola visits 1.2.3

I guess this will be Nairaland's Front page tomorrow:

FASHOLA MEETS HIS DOOM

Pis*ses on thread and walks out.

Jeeeze!!!

Mtcheew!!!

enemy of progress, u go spit sote spit go dry for ur mouth because Fashola doesn't care about you or your view...we know where the likes of you are from...

Damon03: Tell the girlfriend to abandon him for 3 weeks

shuo! you wan kill the girl? 350k per month no be small money o.

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my service is crap too, i have been trying to download since all to no avail, I'm fed up

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Thanks
Huawei. glo E303s-1 modem
Imei- 861862006062963

[quote author=oluwasuski][/quote]. Idiot, why don't you try taking a video yourself. Abi you be clarence peters?...mtcheeew

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