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Be Proactive: Provost tells Student Midwives

16Feb

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Be Proactive: Provost tells Student Midwives

The Provost of the Lagos State College of Nursing, Midwifery and Public Health Nursing Igan.do, Mrs. Oyefunso Orenuga has urged Students Midwives to be proactive during intensive and clinical training because they play a vital role in quality healthcare services. Orenuga stated this in her address during the Capping and Strapping ceremony of Students Midwives Set of 2019, adding that Nurses devote their lives caring for others, especially those who are not strong enough to care for themselves and generally meeting the everyday essential health needs of the people. In her words “The Profession is essential to all health care systems around the world as Midwives play significant roles in sustaining humanity. Nurses are the first contact in the communities and, as such, need to be train...

Fed Poly Ilaro Suspends SUG President Caught in Cult Activities

12Feb

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Crime, Education, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security

Fed Poly Ilaro Suspends SUG President Caught in Cult Activities

Ilaro Polytechnic Management has suspended the Students Union, President, Adegboye Olatunji, who was arrested for engaging in cult activities. The young man was nabbed alongside another cult member, Olarewaju Taiwo, in the full regalia of the black axe cult during initiation of new members of the group. The duo were arrested following a tip off to the police by members of the public. The group were allegedly sighted in a bush at Gbogidi area of Ilaro where they were trying to initiate new members. In a reaction to his suspension, Mr. Sola Abiala, the Polytechnic’s Deputy registrar, Public relations disclosed this in a statement made known to the newsmen. “The suspension of Adegboye is in line with the Act establishing the Polytechnic and the provision of the Students Hand...

Poor Procurement Processes, Corruption Causes Educational Deficit in Lagos, Says Banwo

20Sep

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Corruption, Education, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Poor Procurement Processes, Corruption Causes Educational Deficit in Lagos, Says Banwo

A consultant, Mr Kolawole Banwo has said facilities in Lagos schools remained dilapidated as a result of poor procurement processes and corrupt contracting of educational projects. He made this known during two days stakeholders’ forum on Progressive Taxation in Lagos State organised by Human Development Initiatives (HDI) in collaboration with ActionAid Nigeria and the support of NORAD. Banwo in his presentation centred on Progressive Taxation, Tax Justice and Linking Tax to Education Budget in Lagos State. Saying that Internal Generated Revenue of Lagos State has grown by about 400% since 1999 from N600 million in 1999 to N34 billion in 2018 driven largely by TAX especially Pay as you earn (PAYE) tax. According to him, more of the revenue should be devoted to providing free, qual...

Lagos State Prepared to Provide Quality Education to all Residents

18Sep

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Education, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Lagos State Prepared to Provide Quality Education to all Residents

The Lagos State Government will be supporting secondary schools established by the military formation across the State to increase access to education for residents. The move was disclosed on Wednesday by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu while receiving the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 81 Division of the Nigerian Army, Major-General Olu Irefin, on a courtesy visit at the State House in Marina. Sanwo-Olu said the State’s intervention for the military schools would specifically address deficits in staff strength, training and teaching materials, promising that the Ministry of Education would be meeting with the Army leadership to agree on modalities of the partnership. The Governor said: “Our administration is prepared to provide quality education to all our pupils in public...

We’ll Recruit Teachers to Maximise Quality Training – Sanwo-Olu

3Sep

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Education, Employment, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

We’ll Recruit Teachers to Maximise Quality Training – Sanwo-Olu

…Commissions 110-Bed Maternity Home, School in Ajah Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Tuesday disclosed that the State would be hiring trained teachers to strengthen quality education in its schools. The Governor said his administration would spare no effort to expand quality teaching to pupils in all state-owned schools. The revelation followed the Governor’s directive to the Ministry of Education to recruit trained teaching personnel and provide vital resources that would strengthen quality education across government’s schools. Sanwo-Olu spoke while commissioning three key projects in Ajah, Eti-Osa Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the state. The projects include the newly built 110-bed Maternal and Child Centre (MCC), a 12-block classroom junior secondary...

Lagos State Govt. Meets School Administrators Ahead of September 9 Resumption Date

30Aug

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Education, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Lagos State Govt. Meets School Administrators Ahead of September 9 Resumption Date

… Urges Them To Advance the Education Sector Lagos State Government on Thursday met Head Teachers of public primary schools in the State with a call on the school administrators to be prepared to surmount the challenges in the sector. The State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, who addressed the headteachers at NUT Pavillion, Alausa Ikeja, maintained that the roles of the various school administrators go beyond academics but also entails shaping and reshaping the destiny of the school pupils. She appealed that the dignity of the teaching profession must be sustained, saying that the quality of the teachers would visibly reflect in the competence of pupils and students produced from the various schools. “By your designations, pupils’ first contact and tutelage a...

Lagos SUBEB to Partner LNSC in the Fight Against Social Vices in Schools

15Aug

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Crime, Education, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Lagos SUBEB to Partner LNSC in the Fight Against Social Vices in Schools

The Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) on Thursday reiterated his commitment to seek the support of the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Agency (LNSC) in curbing cultism and other social vices in primary schools in the state. Dr. Abdul Ganiyu Shopeyin, the State Chairman, sought for the partnership when the board visited the LNSCA headquarter’s Safety Arena, at Oshodi, Lagos. Shopeyin said that the agency was saddled with the responsibility of managing public primary schools in the state and ensuring that lives of pupils and property of the schools were safe. He lamented that the rate of cult related activities in primary schools in the state was alarming. “It is hard to note that we have observed cultism in primary schools. Apart from this, kidnapping and other crim...

Dr. Yakubu Nura Did NOT Win Any “World Physics Competition” – Farooq Kperogi

12Aug

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Education, News, Nigeria

Dr. Yakubu Nura Did NOT Win Any “World Physics Competition” – Farooq Kperogi

Nigerian cyber space is being lit up with the news that a certain Dr. Yakubu Nuru of the University of Maiduguri has won “the World Physics Competition by defeating about 5720 contenders from 97 countries.” This “feat” reputedly earned him the distinction of becoming “the father of modern Einstein's planetary equation studies in Physics.” Hahahaha!???? The truth is that Dr. Nura is the willing victim of a scam, a kind of scam I call scams of ego, which prey on the status anxieties and low self-esteem of insecure, fraud-prone people. World Championship, the "organization" that conferred the “award” on Dr. Nura, is a well-known scam operation that does not, for strategically fraudulent reasons, have a site with its own domain name. It uses a free sites.google.com account to perpetrate its...

Kwara Government Mourns the Deaths of Ex-Offa Poly Rector and Kawu

29Jul

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Kwara Government Mourns the Deaths of Ex-Offa Poly Rector and Kawu

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has symphastised with the Offa community over the death of the former Rector of Federal Polytechnic (FedPoly) Offa, Dr Muftau Olatinwo. AbdulRazaq, in a statement on Sunday by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye said the death of this fine administrator came as a shock. " We commiserate with the entire Olatinwo lineage, the Olofa of Offa Oba Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye II, and the academic community over the sad demise of Dr Olatinwo. The statement said Dr Olatinwo would be remembered for his outstanding community service and contributions to make a positive difference during his years as Rector of the FedPoly Offa. "We pray the Almighty God to forgive his shortcomings and comfort his family and the Offa community at large," th...

YABATECH: ASUP Quits from Part-Time Programmes Over Shortfall in Wages

29Jul

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Education, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

YABATECH: ASUP Quits from Part-Time Programmes Over Shortfall in Wages

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP), Yaba College of Technology (Yabatech), on Monday disengaged from all the part-time programmes in the college following the shortfall in the payment of wages and allowances to its members. Mr Nureni Yekini, Chairman ASUP disclosed the union decision to newsmen at the end of the union’s congress in Lagos. He said that all services had been suspended till further notice. He explained that the congress reached the decision following various complaints from members over shortfall in payment of wages and allowances by the management of the college. "Today, members declares that they will withdraw their services from the part-time programmes till further notice. “We have been trying to resolve it internally, but as at today, all acad...