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PoliticsPrimary School Students Will Be Taught In Native Language - FG by Quintopia(op): 1:33am On Dec 01, 2022
Nigeria Approves New Language Policy To Teach Primary School Pupils In Their Mother Tongue

The approval was issued at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.

Sahara Reporters

Abuja, November 30, 2022

The Nigerian government has approved a new National Language Policy which makes the mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction from Primary 1 to 6.

The approval was issued at the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting held at the Presidential Villa on Wednesday, which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja.

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this while briefing journalists on the outcomes of the council meeting, said though the government is aware that implementation will be challenging, the government has made the mother tongue the only medium of instruction for the first six years of education.

He explained that after primary education, English and mother tongue will be combined from the start of junior secondary school.

According to the minister, though the policy has officially taken effect, it can only be fully implemented when the government has developed instructional materials and made provisions for qualified teachers.

Adamu explained that the mother tongue to be used in each school will be the dominant language spoken by the community where it is located, Daily Sun reports.

So much has been lost owing to the extinction of some local languages, he said, adding that the federal government is determined to preserve Nigerian cultures.

He noted that all Nigerian languages are equal and will be treated as such.

He said, “A memo on national policy was approved by the council. So, Nigeria now has a National Language Policy and the details will be given later by the ministry.''

“One of the highlights is that the government has agreed now that henceforth, instruction in primary schools; the first six years of learning will be in the mother tongue."

The minister said the decision is only in principle for now because it will require a lot of work to implement it.

“Theoretically, this policy starts from today and the use of mother tongue is exclusive but we need time to develop the material, get the teachers and so on. Since the first six years of school should be in the mother tongue where the pupil is, the language of the host community is what will be used.''

“Because we have 625 languages at the last count and the objective of this policy is to promote and enhance the cultivation and use of all Nigerian languages,” he added.

Adamu said the council also approved a consultancy services agreement between Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and a private company, for the upgrade of the portal on which the board inputs records of candidates seeking admission into higher institutions of learning.

https://saharareporters.com/2022/11/30/nigeria-approves-new-language-policy-teach-primary-school-pupils-their-mother-tongue
PoliticsRe: FG Blames State Governments For Rising Poverty by Quintopia:
The FG is right. There are so many things you see goIng wrong in these states, and immediately we'll be blaming Buhari and the FG. Blaming the 'Nigerian government'. Such and such is wrong in my LGA because 'Nigeria is failed'.

But Nigeria has nothing to do with your problem.

The FG gives your state monthly allocation to the tune of tens of billons of naira each month. Money to take care of those problems!

And the thing is that the state governments have long known that the people generally blame Abuja for every problem in the country, and this has provided a cushion for them against potential backlash in their states over misplaced priorities in their spending, and embezzlement of funds.
PoliticsRe: ESN Known Gunmen Warns Igbos Not To Go Home For Christmas - VIDEO by Quintopia: 8:01am On Nov 30, 2022
Who was going to the East for christmas before?

Me I don't know any Igbos returning home for christmas o..

East has been taken over by ESN, IPOB and UGM.
SportsRe: Amaju Pinnick Spotted In Qatar Watching Brazil Vs Switzerland, Blasted By Fans by Quintopia: 2:58am On Nov 30, 2022
Banbanna:
Make them critics all STF and let the man be jare. Na only we dey sabi ball? It's a competition and we got outperformed narrowly by a better side. Ghana earned their place in the WC. Better luck next time to our players.

I feared for Nigeria when we got that qualification pairing with a Ghanaian team that suffered about the worst humiliation @ the AFCON in the hands of one the lowliest teams in Africa, Comoros. They had to redeem themselves by securing the WC spot with all their might at our expense.
GHANA WERE NOT, AND ARE NOT BETTER THAN NIGERIA.

GO AND WATCH THAT ABUJA GAME AGAIN. THIS TIME WITH NO EMOTION.

NIGERIA DOMINATED THAT GAME FROM START TO FINISH, AND GHANA WERE JUST LUCKY NOT TO HAVE CONCEDED SEVERAL GOALS.
PoliticsOMG.....The Bible Says The Ancient Israelites Were Africans by Quintopia(op):
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''Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me, o children of Israel? saith the Lord''

- Amos 9:7

Modern rendition: ''Aren't you Israelites the same as my other African children? said the Lord''.

How come our pastors and bishops never tell us this?

Why are we worshiping a white man as 'Jesus' if the Hebrews were black Africans?

Where the hell did a white Jesus come from?

I need answers, biko. undecided
PoliticsRe: Lagos Moves Fast To Build $2.5 Billion 4th Mainland Bridge by Quintopia(op): 12:40am On Nov 29, 2022
Sasi54:
This country has be made to lead the rest of the World. Accept it or not, this is what is going to happen. This I have seen!
Nice.
PoliticsRe: Why Does Tinubu & Atiku Avoid Talking About Fighting Corruption? by Quintopia: 12:00am On Nov 29, 2022
Validated:
I have been listening to Tinubu campaign, even if his messages are incoherent and full of blabbing and gibberish.

I have also listened to Atiku Abubakar only talking about unifyingthe country even if he cannot unify PDP.
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However, I noticed that these two have always avoided talking about how they will fight corruption. We all know that corruption is the biggest problem of Nigeria......
Corruption is not the biggest problem of Nigeria.

Low national income is the biggest problem.

The oil and gas income is a pittance for the huge population we have.

35 billion dollars is our annual budget, for 220 million people.

Even with zero corruption, it is grossly insufficient to meet our needs.

Contrast it with the US annual budget of 7.6 TRILLION dollars, for 320 million people.

We prefer Atiku and Tinubu (and Obi) to discuss how they will accelerate economic and industrial activity and grow national income.

That is what transforms nations, with tens or hundreds of billions of dollars generated in new income and new investments, not wasting time trying to save a couple billion dollars by ''fighting corruption''.

All they need to do is leave the EFCC to continue operating independently, and face the real issue, which is to build this economy to its rightful position.
PoliticsLagos Moves Fast To Build $2.5 Billion 4th Mainland Bridge by Quintopia(op): 11:50pm On Nov 28, 2022
A consortium led by Portugal's builder Mota-Engil and two Chinese ventures has been shortlisted by Nigeria's Lagos state to build a $2.5 billion bridge that is expected to relieve severe congestion in the mega city, an official said on Sunday.

The 37 kilometre Fourth Mainland Bridge, will be built under a public-private partnership. It will include three toll plazas, nine interchanges and a design speed of 120 kilometres per hour, said Jubril Gawat, a senior spokesperson for the Lagos state governor.

Mota-Engil is partnering with China Communication and Construction Corporation and China Road and Bridge Corporation in the bid.

China Gezhouba Group Company and China Geo-Engineering Corporation joint venture and a consortium led by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation are the two other shortlisted bidders.

The winner of the bid will be announced before the end of the year, said Gawat.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/nigerias-lagos-shortlists-mota-engil-chinese-ventures-25-bln-bridge-2022-11-27/

SportsRe: Riots erupt in Some European Cities After Morocco Defeated Belgium In World Cup by Quintopia: 10:58pm On Nov 28, 2022
HITsquad:
Lol happens every time. Belgium and Morocco have history...

But why is all these low budget half baked Arabs violent in nature?
Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Somalia e.t.c...

Did they even realize they were in Belgium and not in Morocco? Lol they lucky Europe is civilized... I'm patiently waiting for them to try this in Saudi or UAE... Na mass deportation!
Who was being violent? It wasn't the Moroccan supporters. It was the Belgians and Europeans burning their cities down because Morocco beat them. So why are you blaming 'Arabs' for the mayhem?
SportsRe: Riots erupt in Some European Cities After Morocco Defeated Belgium In World Cup by Quintopia: 10:10pm On Nov 28, 2022
saintol:
You dey beat people, people no vex. People come beat you, you come dey vex... You are wicked.
BEST POST OF THE THREAD.

KUDOS.
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Establishing Plants To Refine Gold, Other Minerals by Quintopia(op): 4:48am On Nov 28, 2022
Abdul05:
Together....

Let us praise him for doing what he knows best abi... grin grin
lol
PoliticsRe: Nigeria Establishing Plants To Refine Gold, Other Minerals by Quintopia(op): 2:12am On Nov 28, 2022
Another great development in line with his infrastructural successes.

Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR.
https://guardian.ng/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/D84riKiXsAAPz6L.jpg
PoliticsNigeria Establishing Plants To Refine Gold, Other Minerals by Quintopia(op): 2:10am On Nov 28, 2022
Six plants being set up in the various regions to process mineral resources deposited in those regions.


Nigeria has begun the process of refining gold, gemstones and other mineral resources in the six geo-political regions of Nigeria.

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Olamilekan Adegbite, said this when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja.

According to him, adding value to the country’s mineral resources will go a long way in creating jobs and wealth for Nigerians.

He said six plants were being set up in the various regions to process mineral resources deposited in those regions.

'‘We have set out to do six regional projects and one of them is the gold souk in Kano, the North West region.''

“Before now, our gold was being exported in its raw form for close to nothing to foreign countries for processing and we end up buying them expensively.''


'‘We have trained people who will make jewellery and they will be resident in the plant,” he said.

He said similar plants had been set up in the North-east, Bauchi, for processing kaolin, while in the North-central, Kogi State was chosen for the establishment of a gold smelting plant.

Mr Adegbite also said in the South-west, in Ibadan, a gemstone plant had been established while in the South-east, a lead processing plant was established in Ebonyi.

The minister said in the South-south region, a baryte processing plant had been established, adding that “Nigeria imports baryte to the tune of 300 million dollars every year.”

He said the six regional projects were at an advanced stage of completion and would be commissioned shortly.
https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/567750-nigeria-establishing-plants-to-refine-gold-other-minerals-official.html

PoliticsRe: Now That The North Has Found Oil By Simon Kolawole by Quintopia: 2:00am On Nov 28, 2022
TheGiftedOne:
... Can the south now go their separate ways?
The south is not a single entity.

Speak for your ethnic group and nobody else.
PoliticsRe: Now That The North Has Found Oil By Simon Kolawole by Quintopia: 11:24pm On Nov 27, 2022
Racoon:
Oil money is good but becoming worthless with the depreciating global oil prices and greenhouse effects of fossils fuel hence the increasing diversion from these ones to better efficient and renewable energy sources.

From all ramifications, the discovery of the "black gold" have indeed been a curse to a country like Nigeria. After about 62 years of forced nationhood as a result of crude oil, all the enduring legacies are products of colonialism by the western imperialists. In fact Nigeria needs to be recolonised again.
Let them recolonise your father's house.

Leave Nigeria out of your madness.

Stupid slave.

Nigerian leaders not doing well enough? Okay so let's hand the country back to foreigners whose VERY REASON FOR COLONISATION is to LOOT our resources.

That is the fundamental motive for all colonisation throughout history. To LOOT the resources of the colonised territory, to enrich the coloniser's country.

That is what you are calling for as a solution to our problems?

I mean, the way some of you reason is just baffling.
PoliticsRe: Unknown Gunmen Clash With Ebubeagu In Imo Forests. Several Injured by Quintopia: 11:17pm On Nov 27, 2022
observanc1:
These guys are destroying very peaceful,enterprising South East with their madness.
When those guys went and released hardened criminals st Owerri prison, I raised alarm that it was all wrong st whatever aspect u look at it. An armed robber is no body's brother or sister or relative, talkless of fighting for a republic. My fellow igbos abused and cursed me. Now it's becoming a reality.
Before u could drive from enugu to awka to onitsha to owerri to abakiliki and then back to owerri. Not more than 5 hours now u cant even travel for 30 mins to 1 hr accross South east
IT IS INDEED TRAGIC.

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY IGBOS ALLOWED THINGS TO DEGENERATE TO THIS LEVEL.

TALK ABOUT A SELF-INFLICTED TRAGEDY.
PoliticsRe: Africans In Belgium Beware; Violence Erupt In Brussels Over Moroccan 2:0 Defeat. by Quintopia: 10:11pm On Nov 27, 2022
Thinkam:
It'll be more religious than racial..
Shut up.

Who told you that?
PoliticsRe: Foreign Creditors May Seize Presidential Jets Over Accumulated Debts by Quintopia: 4:10am On Nov 27, 2022
Once you hear ''MAY'', know it won't happen.
PoliticsRe: Edo State Gets $2 Billion Investment. Expects $10 Bln More Due To Improved Power by Quintopia(op): 4:19am On Nov 26, 2022
Nigeria is rising. It's just a matter of time. cool
PoliticsRe: Edo State Gets $2 Billion Investment. Expects $10 Bln More Due To Improved Power by Quintopia(op): 2:03am On Nov 26, 2022
PoliticsEdo State Gets $2 Billion Investment. Expects $10 Bln More Due To Improved Power by Quintopia(op): 2:01am On Nov 26, 2022
Edo State Gets $2 Billion In Investments. Expects $10 Billion More Due To Improved Power Supply

Improved Power To Attract $10bn Investment For Edo Govt

By Mohammed Shosanya

Nov 25, 2022


The Edo State will attract an additional $10 billion in domestic and foreign investment as a result of improved power supply in the state.

It has already attracted $2 billion in investment, mostly in the agricultural sector, expected to create many multiplier effects, including enhancing food production, supplying raw materials to industries, and creating additional employment opportunities, according to Special Assistant, SSA, to the Governor on Electricity, Mr. Osasumwen Arigbe-Osula.

He disclosed that Edo has been nominated as the best state government at the Nigeria Power Sector Awards, adding that Mr. Godwin Obaseki-led administration has taken bold steps to boost electricity in the state.

He said: “On 4th April 2017, Edo State Government (EDSG) executed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Ossiomo Power and Infrastructure Company for at least 5MW of power. On 9th March 2018, EDSG applied to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) for an Eligible Customer License.

“On 4th November 2018, NERC approved the EDSG application and declared 7 EDSG locations as Eligible Customers. The Ministry of Energy and Electricity was created in 2019 to execute the “Electrify Edo” project.

“Testing and certification of the Injection Substation at the Secretariat Complex, Sapele Road, and the 11KV network connecting EDSG offices by the Nigerian Electricity Management Services Agency (NEMSA) were completed in July 2020.

“The first power to the Injection Substation at the Secretariat Complex, Sapele Road was achieved on 8th October 2020. Twenty-four hours of uninterrupted power supply is being provided to crucial EDSG facilities and utilities i.e., Government Administrative Buildings, Health Care Facilities, Water Works, Schools, Courthouses, etc as well as Ologbo, the host community of the Ossiomo power plant.

“A 200km Street-lighting program covering the three Senatorial districts of Edo State commenced in April 2021. As of October 2022, 50km (40km in Benin and 10km in Auchi has been completed). An Edo State Electric Power Sector Reform Bill was developed and sent to the Edo State House of Assembly in March 2022.

“The Edo State Electric Power Sector Reform Bill was passed in September 2022 and it creates two statutory bodies – a Regulatory Commission to create a framework for a State Electricity Market and an Electrification Agency – to implement the State Electrification Fund in unserved and underserved areas.”

He maintained that these and others would culminate in Edo state emerging as the first state in Nigeria to experience 24 hours power supply.

He added: “The initiatives constitute the needed catalyst for rapid industrialization and improved security. They have the capacity to attract 1 billion dollars in Foreign Direct Investment, create 200,000 Direct and Indirect Jobs, and open new revenue sources, especially following the dwindling of allocations from the Federation Account Allocation Committee, FAAC.

The Edo State Governor had earlier said: “We are going to use the advantage that we have as a state, with access to reasonably cost fuel and encourage investment in generation, transmission, and distribution within the state. As a state, this is one promise that we made to our people, when we came to office in 2016, that we will continue to provide an enabling environment for businesses to thrive.”

https://independent.ng/improved-power-to-attract-10bn-investment-for-edo-govt/
Foreign AffairsEdo State Gets $2 Billion Investment. Expects $10 Bln More Due To Improved Power by Quintopia(op):
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PoliticsRe: Innoson Company Deliver Made-in-Nigeria Vehicles To Sierra Leone (Photo) by Quintopia: 8:40pm On Nov 25, 2022
JosephXavier:
Give Igbos the opportunity and they will turn Nigeria into China

Igbos are innovative and industrious but are not getting the support they need from the FG
MAYBE IF THEY STOPPED TALKING ABOUT BIAFRAN SECESSION EVERY MINUTE, FG MIGHT TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY.
PoliticsRe: Nnamdi Kanu Wife Is Sleeping With His Lawyer - Simon Ekpa PHOTOS by Quintopia: 7:29am On Nov 25, 2022
You can never say never with women. They can do anything.
HealthRe: NDLEA Boss Knocks Adekunle Gold, Burna Boy, Others For Glorifying Drug Abuse by Quintopia: 3:32am On Nov 25, 2022
Angelfrost:
What else do you expect from kpangolo artistes devoid of lyrical depth...!

When they run out of meaningful things to sing, they fill up their empty songs and videos with sex and drugs glorification.
Burna Boy sold out Madison Square Garden New York, playing that stuff you call kpangolo music.

Anyway I blame free internet.
SportsGhana Laughing Thread by Quintopia(op): 3:17am On Nov 25, 2022
PoliticsRe: Buhari Invests Another $2 Billion In Siemens Power Deal by Quintopia(op): 1:31am On Nov 25, 2022
Moh247:
By far the best when it comes to infrastructure
Supported.
PoliticsRe: Buhari Invests Another $2 Billion In Siemens Power Deal by Quintopia(op): 1:18am On Nov 25, 2022
FreeStuffsNG:
PMB is really bullish on infrastructure . This legacy proved his critics including Pa Obasanjo to be wrong about their prediction about his government when he won in 2915.

May God grant PMB more success in all his great strides across the country.
God bless Nigeria for ever!
Yes, and Nigerians can finally look forward to 24/7 power with confidence.

One thing about Buhari, whatever his other faults, is that his word is his bond.

At core he's really a typical grassroots Fulani muslim man, for whom honor and trust are essential living mores.

He's not the sort of president that they will allocate xx billion to some project, and then you'll be looking around and asking 'where is the project'?.... 'where is the money?'

NEVER.

Once Buhari says he will do something, he does it. Unless something unavoidable obstructs or delays it. cool
PoliticsRe: Kidnapping In Enugu Communities On The Rise As Residents Vacate Their Homes(Pix) by Quintopia: 1:01am On Nov 25, 2022
Almaigaa:
See what Nnamdi Kanu, Simon Ekpa, IPOB, ESN and UGM have caused in the East. The entire EAST is no longer safe. In some communities in Anambra too, so many residents have abandoned their Communities.

Most Communities are presently Ghost towns.
Well said. Those groups have a lot to answer for.

Goodness knows what kind of useless, failed banana republic a 'Biafra' would look like with those criminal thugs in charge.
PoliticsRe: Buhari Invests Another $2 Billion In Siemens Power Deal by Quintopia(op): 12:04am On Nov 25, 2022
I trust my Infrastructure President to deliver on power, as promised. cool
PoliticsBuhari Invests Another $2 Billion In Siemens Power Deal by Quintopia(op):
BUHARI INVESTS ANOTHER 2 BILLION DOLLARS IN SIEMENS POWER DEAL

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has revealed that the federal government is investing more than $2 billion under the Siemens Presidential Power Initiative to boost transmission and distribution of electricity from the nation's national grid.

President Buhari and the Global CEO of Siemens, Joe Kaeser at the State House, Abuja.
https://cdn.punchng.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/22172727/Buhari-with-siemens-boss.jpeg

Speaking during the formal inauguration of the National Council on Infrastructure in Abuja yesterday, the vice president said the collaboration between the federal government and the private sector will not only ensure effective coordination of the infrastructure development across the nation, and all sectors of the economy, but also bridge the nation's infrastructural gaps....

Osinbajo said in spite of the infrastructure deficit across the country, there had been deliberate and massive investments in road, rail and power infrastructure for rapid economic development by the present administration.

According to him, a fundamental feature of the federal government's plan for the rapid development of the economy is a deliberate and massive investment in infrastructure.

"They include the Second Niger bridge, the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Road (funded through the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund), the construction and upgrading of about 5,000km of major road projects across the country through the Sukuk bond.''

"Rail sector investments include the Lagos-Kano standard gauge lines, and the Warri-Itakpe rail.''

"In the energy sector, this administration has green-lit NLNG Train 7, invested in the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) pipeline and is on track to complete an incremental 4,000MW of generating assets such as Zungeru Hydro and Kashimbilla Hydro to complement systemic reforms and investments in the distribution and transmission segments of the electricity value chain.''


"The administration is investing more than $2 billion in Distribution and Transmission through the Siemens Presidential Power Initiative, the Transmission, Rehabilitation and Expansion Plan, the CBN-financed Transmission-Distribution Interface Programme and the recently approved $500 million World Bank DISREP programme for the Distribution segment," he said.

The vice president also highlighted the federal government's N15 trillion Infrastructure Corporation (InfraCorp Nigeria) in 2021, the Reviewed National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan (2020-2043) and the National Development Plan 2021-2025.

Osinbajo said the $2.3 trillion estimated resource requirement for the National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan implementation was too large to be provided from public resources alone, even as he stated that a well-coordinated and strategic approach would be required to harness private resources to increase the stock of Nigeria's infrastructure to the desired level by the year 2043.

In his remarks, the Minister of State, Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Agba, thanked the vice president for his leadership and selfless service to the nation.

https://allafrica.com/stories/202208240051.html
FashionRe: Latest Trend. Our Girls Now Wear Only Pants In Public. Pics by Quintopia: 11:49pm On Nov 24, 2022
The judgemental nature of you southern Nigerians never ceases to amaze me.

As well as your RANK HYPOCRISY.

YOU are the same people that scream blue murder over sharia law in the north, calling the north all sorts of names for enforcing 'moral values', yet here you are condemning WOMEN for merely dressing the way they please.

Why don't you also condemn and ban the ALCOHOL you MEN consume daily, or is ALCOHOL safer than a woman wearing her pantalon to the shop?

DAMN HYPOCRITES.
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