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  • Governor Akeredolu bans public school teachers from enrolling their children in Private schools

    Governor Akeredolu bans public school teachers from enrolling their children in Private schools

    The Governor of Ondo state Rotimi Akeredolu has banned public school teachers in the state from enrolling their children/ward  in private schools.

    He explained that the move was to encourage enrollment in state-owned schools.

    The announcement was made known by the Head of Press and Information Services of SUBEB, Bisi Agboola, in Akure the sate capital on Sunday.

    He added that  the government was concerned about the low turnout in enrollment into state-owned elementary schools despite its investments.

    Also, confirming the development, the Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, Victor Olabimtan affirmed that teachers enrolling their wards in private schools has led to a decline in enrollment in State-run primary schools.

    The statement reads “The government condemned in strong terms the attitude of some teachers taking their biological children to private schools and ruled that it has become an offence for any public-school teachers to take their wards to private schools.

    “Ondo State government will not relent in its efforts at upgrading school standard as well as its personnel.

    “It called on the Education Secretary in the 18 local government areas in the state not to hesitate in reporting any teacher found wanting in their duty post for possible sanction.”

  • All Public and Private Schools in Lagos State to resume on Monday

    All Public and Private Schools in Lagos State to resume on Monday

    The Lagos State Office of Education Quality Assurance, an agency of the Ministry of Education, has announced that all Public and Private Schools in Lagos State are to resume on Monday, 25th April, 2022, in line with the Harmonised Academic Calendar for the Y2021/2022 session.

     

    A statement signed by the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEAQ), Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, said all Proprietors and Administrators are to ensure that all students resume on that date.

     

    The Director-General said that the Second Term Holiday, which started on Friday, 8th April, ended on Friday, 22nd April, 2022 as stated in the Y2021/2022 academic calendar, explaining that the public holidays within the term such as Workers Day, Eid- El-Fitr and Eid-El-Kabir were put into consideration and embedded in the calendar.

     

    Advising students to shun all forms of social vices as they prepare for resumption, Mrs. Seriki-Ayeni implored parents to continue to monitor the activities of their wards at home.

     

    She also enjoined Proprietors and School Administrators to ensure strict compliance with the Lagos State Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy, stressing that there must be full compliance with all safety protocols on school premises for a safe learning environment, as the State Government remains committed to the delivery of quality education.

  • Hanifa: Kano state revokes operational license of private schools

    Hanifa: Kano state revokes operational license of private schools

    Kano state government through the commissioner of Education Mr Muhammad Sanusi-Kiru, has revoked the certificates of operation of all private schools in the state for revalidation. Mr Muhammad Sanusi-Kiru, made this known to newsmen in Kano state on Monday.

    He said that the decision was as a result of the murder of Hanifa Abubakar, a five-year-old pupil of Noble Kids Comprehensive College allegedly by the proprietor of the school.

    According to him, “All the certificates issued to private schools in the state are hereby revoked.
    “The ministry has constituted a committee that will look into the registration of all private schools.
    “The ministry will bring out criteria for the recertification of all private schools, which include Ministry of Justice and Department of State Services (DSS),” the commissioner said.

    Others, he said, were: the police, Fire Service, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Kano State Road Traffic Agency and other government officials.

  • Zamfara shuts down 500 private schools

    Zamfara shuts down 500 private schools

    The Zamfara State government has revoked the operational licences of more than 500 private schools in the state, over their inability to meet required operational guidelines.

    According to Commissioner for Education in the state, Ibrahim Abdullahi, who made this known to newsmen on Tuesday in Zamfara said a task force has been set up to ensure compliance with the closure order.

    He said the schools would only be allowed to operate when they meet the guidelines recently developed by the government.

    “The guidelines will have to be followed and be met by any private school proprietor before a licence to operate will be issued to them.

    “At the moment, we have drafted a bill which we will forward to the House of Assembly that will empower the Ministry of Education to have control over the way the private schools are set up and operated,’’ he said.

    The Commissioner also said the ministry’s unit which oversees the operations of private schools has been upgraded into a department to ensure efficiency.

  • JUST IN: Lagos orders public, private schools to vacate Friday

    JUST IN: Lagos orders public, private schools to vacate Friday

    The Lagos State Government has asked public and private schools in the state to vacate on Friday.

    This was contained in a statement, on Thursday, titled ‘LASG directs schools to vacate on Friday, December 18, 2020’.

    In the statement, the Director General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Ministry of Education, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, said, “the 2020/2021 first term academic session for public and private schools comes to an end on Friday 18th December, 2020”.

    “The Lagos States Government has directed public and private schools in the state to vacate on Friday 18th December, 2020.

    “Therefore, all public and private schools below tertiary level in the state are to close for the Christmas and New Year holiday on that day. Schools are to resume back on Monday 4th January, 2021 in compliance with the Lagos State harmonized academic calendar.

    “It is important to note that boarders are to resume on Sunday 3rd January, 2021 while academic activities commences immediately,” the statement read in part.

  • Kano Govt directs private schools to slash fees

    Kano Govt directs private schools to slash fees

    Kano State Government has urged proprietors of private schools to reduce school fees by 25 and 30 per cent for the 2019/2020 Third Term academic session.

    The state’s Commissioner for Education, Sanusi Kiru, stated this in a statement signed by Aliyu Yusuf, the Public Relations Officer of the ministry, on Thursday in Kano.

    Kiru said the ministry was considering cancellation of the Third Term session, if the school proprietors remained adamant to reduce the fees.

    He said the measure was imperative in view of the economic realities ocassioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

    He said: “Two parallel adhoc committees were constituted to discuss with proprietors of the schools on the downward review of the fees as done in some states.

    “Failure to do so; the ministry will cancel the Third Term session, and the academic calendar will commence with a new session in January 2021.

    “Proprietors of private schools should appreciate the support they enjoyed from the state government and extend the same gesture to the good people of the state.”

    The Commissioner said the ministry had fixed Nov.1, dateline for the schools to comply, warning that: “the ministry will be left with no option than to take such a revolutionary decision in public interest.”

  • Delta approves three more private schools for JSS exams

    Delta approves three more private schools for JSS exams

    The Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has approved an additional three private schools as centres for the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) being organised by the National Examination Council (NECO).

    Mr Patrick Ukah, the Commissioner for Education, in a statement listed the schools as Patricia High School, Asaba, Infant Jesus Academy, Asaba, and Marymount College, Agbor.

    According to him, 43 private schools had earlier been approved as centres for the BECE by NECO which is different from that organised by the Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education.

    BECE by NECO will begin on Aug. 24, while that organised by the Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education will start on Sept. 21.

    “JSS 3 students writing the NECO examination are expected to have resumed school for their revision, while those sitting for the state examination are expected back to school on Sept. 8,” he said.

    The commissioner advised the management of the approved schools to adhere strictly to laid down COVID-19 protocols during the period.

    “As the committee set up to monitor compliance will be visiting the schools regularly and any of the schools found not to be complying will be closed down.

  • Private schools can charge fees for third term resumption – FG

    Private schools can charge fees for third term resumption – FG

    The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, says that private school owners are entitled to charge fees for third term as schools start resuming for exit classes.

    Nwajiuba said this at the media briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Monday in Abuja.

    He was reacting to a question on if it was proper for private schools to charge third term fee since the period the exiting students would spend in school was short.

    The minister said that private school owners were running a business venture and not a charity organisation.

    He added that “for public institutions, we can’t tell you that we charge school fees, as most of our schools are free. Public schools are free and vary from state to state.

    “But when you go into a contractual relationship with a school owner, a school owner is a passionate person, but is also a business person. He or she is not running a charity organisation, they may be charitable in their approach, but it’s not charity.

    “So, it’s important that you appreciate that a private school is entitled to charge fees for the work they do. The person that runs a school may be passionate about education but will still charge fees.”

    Nwajiuba said that “once the WAEC examination starts on Aug. 17, it will run till the middle of September and NABTEB will start immediately and run till October.”

    He said “NECO examination will start on Oct. 10, about a week to the end of NABTEB and run through to November.

    “We expect that throughout the period, students are working and learning.

    “We don’t just want them to be in school and be playing, this is exit class, it says a lot about the six years spent in secondary school.

    “Right now, we are lifting the registration for NABTEB and NECO, continuously running, even while we are about to begin WAEC.

    ‘”All examinations are a test of outcomes. We will want our teachers to continuously engage the students,” he said.

    Nwajiuba emphasised that schools resumption was for exit classes at the moment, adding that some schools had even opened on Monday, Aug. 3.

    He said “I monitored developments in Lagos State, where some schools opened and cleaned the classes and the environment, while some other states will open as the week proceeds.”

  • Health workers question FG’s plan to pay salaries of private schools teachers

    Health workers question FG’s plan to pay salaries of private schools teachers

    The Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN) has questioned the plan by the federal government to pay salaries of private schools teachers affected by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.

    The National President of the MHWUN, Comrade Josiah Biobelemoye in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory questioned the rationale to pay salaries of private schools teachers when visited by the Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Health Services, Hon. Tanko Sununu.

    “We are doing so much and our people are showing so much understanding within this period because its COVID time but you can’t expect people to be patient all through forever.

    “Government said there is no money but they are planning to pay private school teachers who are not even under the employment of the government.

    “We that are in the forefront contending with the salvage how will you then explain to us government does not have the money to pay our deferred salaries of April and May 2018, and the withheld salaries in FMC Owerri, JUTH, LUTH and others. How will you convince us?

    “We are not against the government trying to help out private schools, but if you are helping the private schools why can’t you help us. Is it justifiable to keep the salaries of those who are in the war front?

    “We are appealing to the executive; quickly address these matters because they are ticking time bombs and they should not allow them to be detonated before they come to the rescue because any detonated bomb does not have positive results, its always negative,” the MHWUN president said.

    While making a case for increased funding of the health sector and budgetary provision to fund the salary adjustments, Biobelemoye commended the efforts and concern of the NASS in the welfare of healthcare workers.

    Meanwhile, the Chairman of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Health Services, Sununu said families of healthcare workers who died at the frontline of the COVID-19 will receive financial benefits.

    The lawmaker said the National Assembly (NASS) was still in the process of reviewing the manner of compensation that should be made available to the affected families.

    “We are not unmindful of our health workers in the frontline who paid the ultimate price. This is why we are working out a plan to compensate their families. A committee has been set up.

    “We will call for a public hearing where the strategy and method to be used in disbursing the compensations will be agreed on. The families of the deceased will be located and we must ensure the money reaches them.

    “Our aim is to ensure there is no disharmony anymore in the health sector. We are reaching out to major stakeholders and negotiating their demands to ensure health workers continue with their work with no hitches or grievances,” the lawmaker said.

  • Nasarawa Govt. to shut illegal private schools

    The Nasarawa State House of Assembly said on Friday that it would collaborate with the state Ministry of Education to close down all illegal private schools to improve the standard of education.

    Mr Daniel Ogah-Ogazi, the Chairman, House Committee on Education, Science and Technology, made this known when the state Commissioner for Education appeared before the committee to defend her 2017 budget.

    Ogah-Ogazi assured of the assembly’s readiness to partner the executive in order to improve on the standard of education in the state through quality legislation.

    “In order to improve on the standard of education in the state, we will collaborate with the state Ministry of Education.

    “We will visit all private schools across the state as part of our oversight function to know the registered and unregistered ones.

    “During the oversight function, we will also know schools that meet up with the required education standard and the ones that did not meet up.

    “We will not hesitate to close down any private school that did not meet up with the required education standard.

    “We will continue to enact laws that have direct bearing on the education sector as well as on the lives of the people as no nation could achieve meaningful progress without sound education,” he said.

    Ogah-Ogazi urged the commissioner to sanction any school that was involved in sharp practice of any kind.

    He also advised the commissioner and her team to continue to monitor and ensure effective supervision of schools and to ensure that quality job was done in the interest of the education sector.

    Earlier, Hajiya Ramatu Abubakar, the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, said the government would continue to key into positive education policies to improve quality of education in the state.

    Abubakar assured of the ministry’s commitment to continue to ensure effective supervision of schools.

     

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