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Post by Her Highness on Aug 10, 2016 15:03:12 GMT
OsunUpdates: 18km Adesoji Aderemi East Byepass Road, Osogbo, Osun State to completed in weeks. Osun is progressing!
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 10, 2016 15:04:17 GMT
We're back to roads without markings
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 11, 2016 16:40:18 GMT
Aregbe also visited China with 5 other governors
Afi China yi sa. We don even forget say business people sef dey Naija
O ga ooo
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 11, 2016 16:47:32 GMT
WAEC Results: Osun State’s dismal 29th position sparks firestorm
The controversy over the performance of Osun State in the 2016 senior secondary school WAEC examinations is still raging as the state government has rebuffed calls for a review of its polices in the education sector. Osun State was ranked 29th among the 36 states and the FCT in this year’s results released by WAEC. The Peoples Democratic Party in the state believes that by the rating, the state’s education sector showed signs of decline. The party in a statement said the state’s passing rate in the 2016 WAEC published on the website of the organisation made it the least ranked state in southern part of the country coming behind Kogi and Benue states. It noted that all the efforts of the governor in the sector had come to naught with the massive failure recorded by most public school students in the state in this year’s WAEC result. “Structures are being erected and noise is reaching heaven because of this, is 29th position among 36 plus FCT states a good advert for all the razzmatazz over learning tablet ‘opon imo’ and other educational policies introduced by Aregbesola? Definitely no,” the statement read. “To lend Aregbesola a helping hand, one of the hindrances we have noticed undermining his efforts is lack of motivation, none payment of salaries and entitlements of teachers among other equally serious challenges.” But the government on Wednesday disagreed with those criticizing it on the performance rating, arguing that the state instead has improved in its educational performance. The Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor of Osun described those calling for the resignation of Governor Rauf Aregbesola over the last ranking of the state in the West Africa Examination Council as “naive” and “ignorant” of statistics. The bureau’s statement signed by its Director, Semiu Okanlawon, said the call stemmed from the usual lack of knowledge of performance charts and attention to details that the opposition elements were notorious for. According to him, records and statistics of students put forward by the state in the past years have shown that there is improvement in percentage of overall results. It added that critics had forgotten that to get the true performance of a student, a mere look at the position of the student in a class is not as important as the percentage of total scores. www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/208415-waec-results-osun-states-dismal-29th-position-sparks-firestorm.htmlThe Bureau noted that the downward trend in education in the country in general should make all worrisome due to the role of education in development. “Those who say Osun is declining are not being honest. The following data will show their claims to be totally unfounded. The performance of pupils has not gone down under the watch of Aregbesola,” he argued. “In 2007, the state government put forward 36,171 candidates for WAEC examination out of which 2,483 representing 6.86 per cent had credit pass in five subjects, including English and Mathematics. “In 2008, it was 37,715 candidates with 3,813 pass, representing 10.11 per cent. In 2009 it was 39,676 candidates, with 5,545 pass, representing 13.98 per cent. In 2010 it was 43,216 candidates, with 6,777 pass, representing 15.68 per cent. If you put these four years together, you will get an average of 15.68 per cent. “Put side by side when Aregbesola’s administration started sponsoring candidates for WAEC in 2011. That year, it fielded 53,293 candidates, had 11672 pass, representing 21.98 per cent. In 2012, it fielded 51,463 out of which 11,431 passed, representing 22.21 per cent. In 2013, it also fielded 47,013 candidates, recorded 9,301 pass, representing 19.78 per cent. “In 2014, government sponsored 47,672 candidates, 9,316 of them passed, representing 19.54 per cent. The average performance for Aregbesola’s first four years was 20.88 per cent. Compared with the average performance (13.26 per cent) of the three years that preceded it, the percentage improvement in performance during Aregbesola’s tenure is a huge 57.46 per cent.” “In 2009 under PDP government, Osun ranked 9th in the WAEC passing rate and before we achieved that feat, a lot of efforts went into reviving education sector which we met in comatose due to mass retrenchment of teachers by Chief Bisi Akande led administration,” he said.
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 11, 2016 16:48:08 GMT
SAAAAAAD!
By the way, isn't this for 2015?
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 20, 2016 15:49:50 GMT
World Bank Commends Osun Yesso Programme
The World Bank has again applauded Osun State for maintaining its leading position in the Youth Employment and Social Support Operation (YESSO) among the participating states in Nigeria. The International Financial Institution stated this through Professors Sulaiman Yusuf and Wale Oni at the third phase of the Community Based Targeting (CBT) Team Validation Exercise for Community Development Officers (CDOs) and their Assistants who will be working in the selected communities within the new set of Local Government Areas selected. The duo maintained that, YESSO came on board to increase access of the poor to youth employment opportunities, social services and to strengthen safety net systems in participating states. In his remarks at the event, the Coordinator, State Operation Coordinating Unit (SOCU), Osun YESSO, Mr. Olufemi Ifaturoti commended the World Bank team for their efforts which he said were instrumental to the coming on board of YESSO in Osun. Mr. Ifaturoti also eulogized the Federal Operation Coordinating Unit Team (FOCU), Local Government Officials and his SOCU team for their steadfastness which has seen the support operation waxing stronger and stronger. Also speaking at the event on behalf of the Federal Operation Coordinating Unit (FOCU), Mr. Sulaiman Haruna maintained that, the World Bank/FOCU team was in Osun to ensure that the third round of the Community Based Targeting (CBT) exercise turns out very successful. The new set of Local Government Areas selected for the third round of the Community Based Targeting(CBT) Exercise are Ife East in addition with the Area Office, Iwo, Ayedaade, Atakumosa West, Boripe and Odo-Otin. Among those present at the event were; Alexander Ajiduku from the National Social Safety Nets Coordinating Office(NASSCO), Abuja, Bada Oluwaseyi from FOCU, Abuja, Abdulsalam A.O also from FOCU in Abuja and Mr. J.O Akande who is the Coordinating Director of the State Planning Commission (SPC). www.nigeriatoday.ng/2016/08/world-bank-commends-osun-yesso-programme/
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 20, 2016 15:55:58 GMT
Honorebu, What's the point of applause if they're not going to invest in it?
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 24, 2016 23:32:49 GMT
Na wa oooh
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 26, 2016 22:08:33 GMT
Labour Union Promises To Support Osun State To Grow Revenue
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Osun State Chapter, has assured the State government that workers in the state would continue to partner with it, to ensure that the state’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) is improved. They believe that revenue growth would enable the government meet its statutory duty. The State Chairman of the union, Jacob Adekomi, gave the assurance on Thursday while speaking to Channels Television in Osogbo the State’s Capital. The NLC chairman said Governor Rauf Aregbesola, in response to a letter written to him by the labour unions, promised to look into the general welfare of the workforce in the state. The Governor, according to him, has directed that the 2014 and 2015 leave bonus of the workers be approved for payment. He stated that the Governor at a meeting with all the Labour leaders in the state assured them that the arrears of salaries owed workers on Grade Level Eight and above would be paid as soon as funds were available. “The Labour leaders wrote a letter to the Governor, demanding for full payment of salaries, from July last year for Level Eight and above, also demanding for the withdrawal of the circular prohibiting promotion confirmation and arrears of pension to be paid and also welfare packages for the workers generally. “The Governor invited us for a meeting last week and there the Governor said he knows he is owing us, those arrears of salaries and he is going to pay. “He even encouraged us to look inward to do a lot of things to improve the IGR so that the IGR can be used to augment the allocation coming from the Federal Account. “He has said that if he has more than enough to pay full salaries, he will pay,” the union leader stated. “The Governor also said that if he had more than enough money in Osun, he can even increase our salaries and give the committee involved to pay more than what the workers are earning now. He only tasked us to go to all agencies to encourage them to pay their taxes and do their civic duties so salaries can be paid as at when due,” he also told reporters. On the issue of the tertiary institutions’ lecturers that were disengaged earlier this year, Mr Adekomi said that the Governor had told them that the Speaker of the House of Assembly in the state had forwarded the report of the committee to him. He said that the Governor had also promised that he would look into the report and take action on it. “We a have a good relationship with the State government and as far as we are concerned we have no problem with him. It is only the money that is not there that is the issue,” he added www.channelstv.com/2016/08/26/labour-union-promises-to-support-osun-state-to-grow-revenue/
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Post by Honorebu on Aug 26, 2016 22:11:26 GMT
Association Plans Cassava Processing Centres For Osun Farmers
Cassava Growers Association of Nigeria (CFAN), Osun State chapter, says it is working toward setting up cassava processing centres across the state to process cassava into finish products. Chairman CFAN, Mr Musefiu Ganiyu, who said this on Thursday in an interview with newsmen in Osogbo, however, did not state when the project will commence. According to him, one of the major challenges facing cassava farmers in the state is marketing of their produce after the harvest. He expressed concern that cassava flour processing companies given grants by the government to buy cassava from the local farmers were not patronising them. Ganiyu said that when the proposed processing centre materialised, it would ease the marketing of finished cassava products with added value. “Though the price we sell to buyers is moderate, but by setting up cassava processing centres by ourselves, it will yield more returns for farmers. “Right now, we only sell our produce to people from the local market who process and turn them to garri and fufu,’’ he said. The chairman said that cassava produce, in finished form, would yield more profit for farmers, considering the state of the country’s economy. “We are, however, working toward having our own cassava processing centres, even if it will be just for processing Garri. www.thetidenewsonline.com/2016/08/26/association-plans-cassava-processing-centres-for-osun-farmers/
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 27, 2016 1:46:21 GMT
I always wonder why Yorubas always wait for people to do this for them. Why can't they do it themselves?
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Post by AgbongboAkala on Sept 6, 2016 6:17:23 GMT
Osun and Its Investment In Education, By Ademola Adesola
‘No nation goes bankrupt educating its people’ – Confucius. The epigraph to this piece by the Chinese philosopher, Confucius, speaks appositely to the significance of education in the development of a country. His view correctly implies that investment in education will always yield the highest dividends. If quality investment in education produces the highest dividends, it is incontestable that a country which invests hugely and consistently, and substantially, and not symbolically, in education cannot become bankrupt. In any case, human beings remain the surest agencies of development. If their capacities are purposefully enriched, meaningfully enhanced, and consistently improved, they will creatively initiate workable ideas and contribute considerably in driving the multifarious engines of sustainable socioeconomic development. Education, for any society which privileges and prioritises it, becomes the substratum of its development which will always set it apart from those that do not invest in education. This is the core lesson that the informative book, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (2012), co-authored by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, persuasively teaches. According to the authors, consistent and hefty investments in education and the necessary infrastructure is one of the reasons why some countries are developed and prosperous while many others become unfortunate. Access to educational facilities contributes greatly to enabling people move forward and become useful for self and society. No nation whose political and economic institutions are unviable can invest in education and provide motivation for the people to be educated. It is against this backdrop that the inspiring efforts of the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola Administration in reforming and investing in education in the State of Osun can be appreciated. The conviction of the Administration that education holds the key to the realisation of the all-encompassing transformation it envisions for the state informs the undistracted attention it has accorded to educational development right from 2010 when it assumed office. The Administration makes education the bedrock of the various policies it has designed and is executing to improve the existential condition of the people of the State. The priority the Administration gives to the development of education in Osun has inspired many initiatives that have brought marked differences to the grooming of minds there. The blueprint that emerged from the Education Summit organised in the first year of its assumption of office provides useful direction for its drive to reposition education in the state. From huge investments in instructional materials and teaching aids, crucial changes in curricula, corrective restructuring of schools into Elementary, Middle, and High in conformity with international best practices in school management, to the construction of mega schools, the Administration manfully moves on to ensure that public schools in the State become virile emporiums of sustainable capacity building. In the last six years, remarkable successes have been recorded and rich lessons distilled from low points. What stands out in the Administration’s unwavering pursuit of educational development in Osun is the humongous amounts it continues to invest in it. It does not consider any amount too prohibitive if the task is educational development. Like Aristotle, Governor Aregbesola understands that ‘[t[he roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet’. Accordingly, the princely price of investment in education has to be paid for the grand prize of enduring socio-economic development. Nothing can be more important than creating the right environment and emplacing the needed infrastructure for the building of human capacity, the agency and gateway of societal development. Clearly, this accounts for why Osun is still able to pluck new fruits of educational infrastructural development even in the face of the disruptive hurricane of cash crunch sweeping furiously across the Nigerian federation. The notable reduction and desultoriness in cash flow have not discouraged Osun from going with its schools infrastructural development project. On the first day of this September, the state commissioned the Osogbo Government High School in a memorable ceremony witnessed by President Muhammadu Buhari and many other dignitaries. foraminifera Conceived and constructed in line with international standards, the building has the capacity to seat 3,000 students; it has 72 classrooms, each capable of sitting 49 students; with the capability to graduate 1,000 students annually. Its other facilities include six offices for study groups, six fully furnished laboratories, 60 toilets (30 apiece for boys and girls), one fully furnished science library, one fully furnished art library, one facility manager’s office, one bookshop, one sick bay, one bursar’s office, three furnished principals’ office, three general staff offices, one furnished senior principal’s office, one record storage, and one security shed/reception. More so, it has an Olympic-sized football field, a seven-lane sprinting track for 100 metres and 400 metres, a pavilion and an outdoor basketball court that doubles as a tennis court. It has parking space for 75 cars, and an examination hall to sit a minimum of 1000 students. This hall has a stage, office space, storage for documents, and 10 toilets for males and females respectively. Students of Grades 10-12 (SSS I-III), between ages 15 to 17 years, will be using this school sited on a-10-hectare land. The Aregbesola-led Administration has a tidied plan to build 20 mega High Schools across the state and in places where the old, dilapidated buildings that were not healthy for modern-day poultry once stood. The Osogbo Government High School is one of the 11 that have been completed. Of the 100 school buildings planned for the Elementary level, 14 have been completed, and 15 of the 50 for the Middle school have also been finished. For the State Government of Osun, the functional education the children of the state must receive has to take place within befitting structures, which have advanced facilities, are conducive for learning, and enhance human dignity. By embarking on these projects, the State Government is simply saying the culture of excellence that guides the affairs of standard private schools cannot be impossible for it to attain. The quality, sound education vouchsafed for the children has to take place within modern facilities. What exists in Osun, in terms of educational infrastructure development, is not symbolism but substance. About 12,000 teachers have been added to the already existing pool of teachers across the schools in the state. It is not just about physical infrastructure; the human infrastructural is also seriously taken into cognisance, for no educational system can rise above the quality of its teachers. The idea of education for development motivates Osun to prioritise education. Governor Aregbesola underscores this in the address he delivered at the opening of the Osogbo Government High School last week. In his words, “Education for us, therefore, is the path to development. We are 25 years now, but we are looking at the next 25 years and we want to create and determine the next 25 years through education.” That education, he adds, is the sort that sees to the full development of the personalities of the learners. “The overall aim”, he explained, “is to develop the new man intellectually, socially and morally. This new man is placed in the centre of society who views his own development as part of and for the development of society. This is a non-parasitic and non-oppressive man who views his existence in light of the growth of others; he views whatever is acquired to be subsumed in the overall interest of others. He is a man in himself and a man for society.” In spite of the financial constraint it has, Osun refuses to give up its walk on the path of educational development. It continues to invest in it because it is persuaded that doing so has many invaluable benefits and not bankruptcy. Ademola Adesola is of the Features Unit, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Government of the State of Osun. Osun a dara
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Post by Honorebu on Sept 6, 2016 23:15:54 GMT
Chief AgbongboAkala, so what's your take on Osun state's poor performance in WAEC
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Post by AgbongboAkala on Sept 7, 2016 11:56:35 GMT
Chief AgbongboAkala , so what's your take on Osun state's poor performance in WAEC Aare, like I always say, what Aregbe is doing in education are legacy projects. They are not something you can "see" the immediate results. They are long term projects. Let me give you an example. In our secondary school days in Abk, we have influx of students from Lagos. That was because Lagos education was nothing to write home about in those days. Every sensible parent brought their wards down to Ogun state. That was why school like Iganmode and Abeokuta grammar school were the centres of attraction in those days because of their performances in external exams. In my school alone, we have about 40% of such students. But the whole thing changed when Tinubu started his reforms in education. As at the 2015 reports, Lagos was no 6. That was the consequence of such reforms. Nigerians are used to fire brigade approach. But Aregbe is addressing the fundamentals and not the peripheries. Even I don't believe that the results will start coming in in the next 2 or 3 years. Those who are really going to bring the desired results are those pupils in the elementary schools for now. It's only that Nigerians are not good at record keeping. If not that, I think we should track the progress of those children. Those are the futures that Aregbe is trying to protect. Imagine coming from those elementary schools and going straight to the middle and high schools. It is those children that we should be looking at not all these ones that have tasted "iya" very well and then put under "AC". Let's use you as an example. If you start raising children in that land, definitely your kids' experience is going to be different from that of your own because your own experience is Nigerianized.
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Post by Honorebu on Sept 7, 2016 21:53:35 GMT
Chief AgbongboAkala , so what's your take on Osun state's poor performance in WAEC Aare, like I always say, what Aregbe is doing in education are legacy projects. They are not something you can "see" the immediate results. They are long term projects. Let me give you an example. In our secondary school days in Abk, we have influx of students from Lagos. That was because Lagos education was nothing to write home about in those days. Every sensible parent brought their wards down to Ogun state. That was why school like Iganmode and Abeokuta grammar school were the centres of attraction in those days because of their performances in external exams. In my school alone, we have about 40% of such students. But the whole thing changed when Tinubu started his reforms in education. As at the 2015 reports, Lagos was no 6. That was the consequence of such reforms. Nigerians are used to fire brigade approach. But Aregbe is addressing the fundamentals and not the peripheries. Even I don't believe that the results will start coming in in the next 2 or 3 years. Those who are really going to bring the desired results are those pupils in the elementary schools for now. It's only that Nigerians are not good at record keeping. If not that, I think we should track the progress of those children. Those are the futures that Aregbe is trying to protect. Imagine coming from those elementary schools and going straight to the middle and high schools. It is those children that we should be looking at not all these ones that have tasted "iya" very well and then put under "AC". Let's use you as an example. If you start raising children in that land, definitely your kids' experience is going to be different from that of your own because your own experience is Nigerianized. This has always been my opinion sugbon suuru mi tin buku ooo By the way, Osun state has been the best performing state so far in the Cowbell competitions as at the last time I checked Make I find am sef
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