According to a statement, access to customers and other aspiring candidates is available on FCMB website with branches where operational desks are currently located, listed.
First City Monument Bank (FCMB), has unveiled a scheme tagged: ‘FCMB Education Advisory Service,’ that would ensure convenient and affordable education support for its customers who or their children desire to study abroad and obtain undergraduate and post-graduate degrees.
The support includes overseas admission information services, school fees remittance, school living allowances and travel fares, loans to support school fees payments, visa process, travels and examination preparation.
Full article : https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/06/05/fcmb-launches-education-advisory-services/
Current population of teachers not enough for schools – Minister
The Minister of Education, Adamu has described the population of teachers currently engaged in the education sector as grossly inadequate.
Adamu stated this during a recent teaching and learning conference organised by the African Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authorities and the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria in Abuja.
The minister said Nigeria had been projected to be among the world’s 10 most populous countries by 2050 and, therefore, there must be plans to review and sustain the education system to cope with the anticipated population.
Full Article : http://punchng.com/current-population-of-teachers-not-enough-for-schools-minister/
OAU Sex For Mark: Monica Osagie Scored 45 And Not 33
A post- graduate student of the Department of Management and Accounting, Obafemi Awolowo University , Ms . Monica Osagie, who accused Prof . Richard Akindele , of demanding sex from her to upgrade her mark has appeared before the committee set up by the university to investigate the scandal.
While narrating what happened during the meeting to journalists, she said Osagie scored 45 in the course which Akindele taught her and not 33 that the lecturer claimed that she scored.
“ The school reaffirmed that she passed and that she scored 45 and not 33 and the man (prof .) did not give her mark . Apparently the man was using the 33 as a bait to get her.
“ She talked about her understanding of what happened. She talked about the fact that she is a good student and that she passed all her courses. That she shouldn’t have failed the course and that she checked and found out that she passed and that the 33 the man talked about must have been his (lecturer) imagination .
“ It must also have been a way of negotiating with her to get her to bow to his wish , which was the reason she recorded the conversation .”
Full Article : http://www.punchng.com/sex-for-mark-alleged-victim-monica-osagie-appears-before-oau-panel/
FG SET TO INCREASE ALLOWANCE OF CORPS MEMBERS
Sulaiman Kazaure, the Director General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), says the increase in corps members monthly allowance would be determined by the new national minimum wage ”when it takes effect around September 2018.”
The official said this on Monday while fielding questions from journalists newsmen shortly after the swearing-in ceremony of the 2018 Batch ‘A’ corps members at the NYSC orientation camp in Kusalla, Karaye Local Government Area of Kano state.
According to him, “our efforts to ensure that the monthly allowance of the corps members is increased have yielded a very good result following series of discussion with the Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chris Ngige.”
Mr Kazaure added that the N18,800 paid to them is grossly inadequate to cater for their needs during the mandatory one year service to the nation.
The federal government had set-up a committee to look into the upward review of the minimum wage which he said will also determine the increase of the corps members’ allowance.
“We have been assured that when the new minimum wage takes effect, also the corps members allowance will be reviewed upward,” Mr Kazaure assured.
The NYSC DG also disclosed that 82,000 corps members were deployed nationwide for the 2018 Batch ‘A’ orientation course across various states except those with security challenges.
In his remarks, the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, urged the corps members to shun all acts capable of denting the image of the scheme or which would sour their relationship with the camp officials.
Full Article : https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/more-news/266011-new-minimum-wage-will-determine-corps-members-allowance-dg.html
OAU VC, Ogunbodede, Speaks On Sex For Mark Scandal
The Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University has finally reacted to the scandalous reports of one of its professors requesting an exchange of sex for pass marks.
On Wednesday, April 11, in a statement personally signed and released to the public, the Vice Chancellor, Eyitope Ogunbodede said that investigation of identifying the person involved is currently in progress.
He said:
“In full compliance to all applicable laws, the university has set up a high powered committee to investigate the allegation and submit its report within one week. Anyone found culpable will be dealt with decisively.
“The university considers sexual harassment as an offence punishable contrary to the code of conduct and anti-sexual harassment policy. The university will never condone such act by any staff or students.”
Similarly, the chairman of Congress of University Academics, Obafemi Awolowo University,Mr Niyi Sunmonu, maintained that if it is established that the leaked audio is true, the perpetrator is not fit to be in the academic environment.“Lecturers are expected to mould the lives of students.”
Recall that we had reported earlier Professor Akindele’s wife spoke on the scandal and blamed the devil for it.
The wife of the OAU lecturer has denied the allegations against him, saying the devil is out to tarnish her husband’s reputation.
The professor who is a clergyman at the Anglican Diocese of Ife, Osun State, was caught in a recorded phone conversation, demanding five rounds of sex from a female student before she can pass his course.
According to Premium times, some of his church members expressed shock at the development.
One of the church members said they went to the professor’s house immediately the news broke on social media and met his wife who blamed the devil.
”When we heard the news, some of us were surprised. We were at his house very early this (Tuesday) morning but only met his wife who said the devil is at work to soil the name of her husband.” he said
Federal Government has approved the Cisco Networking Academy Programme
The Federal Government has approved the Cisco Networking Academy Programme to be run in unity schools just as it also approved the establishment of six Internet of Things (IoT) innovation centres across federal unity colleges in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria.
The approval routed through the Federal Ministry of Education, is possibly government’s strong statement towards entrenching sound Information and Communications Technology, ICT learning in primary, secondary and tertiary education in the country.
Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who made the announcement at the official opening and inauguration of one of the Innovation Centres at Queen’s College, Lagos, said government has discovered that qualitative education in the modern world is intrinsically tied to the development and deployment of ICT in education.
Full Article : https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/ict-education-fg-establishes-six-iot-innovation-centres-nigeria/
No need to declare a state of emergency in private varsities.
The Vice-Chancellor of Augustine University, Prof. Steve Afolami, has said there is no need to declare a state of emergency in private universities.
Afolami said this during the third matriculation ceremony of Augustine University for the 2017/2018 academic session, which held at Epe, Lagos State.
It will be recalled that the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had announced the Federal Government’s plan to declare a state of emergency in the education sector by April 2018.
But Afolami said many private universities rejected the plan, explaining that they only need inclusion in government grants and scholarships.
Full article : http://punchng.com/no-need-to-declare-a-state-of-emergency-in-private-varsities-don-tells-fg/
Full scholarship for Agricultural Sciences In Landmark University – Bishop David Oyedepo
Chancellor, Bishop David Oyedepo instructs the university to remove tuition for all Agricultural Sciences program(s)
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Lagos State declares Wednesday “Yoruba Speaking Day” in Schools with all Lessons to be taught in Yoruba
The Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has directed all schools in the state to begin all classes in Yoruba on Wednesdays, The Cable reports.
The directive was given to both private and public schools.
The Deputy Governor Idiat Adebule, passed the directive across to Public School principals and head teachers in a meeting, declaring Wednesdays “Yoruba Speaking Day.”
The National Anthem is also to be sung in Yoruba Language, she informed the principals, and Yoruba Language has been made compulsory. She said:
Gov. Ambode wants me to pass this message to you, that henceforth, Yoruba language be made compulsory in both private and public schools.
The national anthem must be sung in Yoruba on a daily basis too.
The Egbe Akomolede has done the translation and we will send the copies of the Yoruba version to your schools by Monday so you can begin to teach the students.
I have also met with the owners of private schools and we have relayed this directive to them.
We are also considering translating the textbooks of other subjects into Yoruba Language because I believe that when students are taught in their mother language, learning will be easy and their level of performance will improve.
The state government is passionate about this Law, so we do not lose our language, culture and heritage.
She appealed to all present to support the Lagos State government’s Yoruba Language Preservation and Promotion Law.
The state’s Ministry of Education is conducting an assessment to determine the number of Yoruba teachers required to fulfil the aim.