A bill to amend the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Act to include skirts in NYSC uniform could not scale second reading at the Senate on Wednesday.
The bill was rejected following concerns that such amendment required altering the constitution which involved a longer process.
Soliciting support of his colleagues, Emmanuel Bwacha (Taraba-PDP) said the amendment was meant to give corps members the liberty of digressing from the rigid adherence to the NYSC uniform specification.
“This particular amendment especially in section 13 and 16 of the principal act is to achieve the following objectives; increase the penalty for offences contained in the Act to make such fines reflect the present value of the naira. To ensure that regulations made by the directorate prescribing drills and uniform for exercise do not violate certain religious practices.
“The uniform adopted for corps members have become a basis for controversy between the directorate and the public. In fact, some corps members drop out of service because of conflict they’ve witnessed.
“The major bone of contention is that some of the drills and uniform contravene the religious belief of corps members and invariably denying them right of religion, thought and conscience.”
The Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who took over from Bukola Saraki in presiding over the plenary called the attention of Mr. Bwacha to the provisions of Section 9 (2) of the Constitution.
“Section 9 (2) of the Constitution says that for you to amend the Constitution, it has to pass through the senate and the state assemblies. We have to follow the same process as if we are amending the Constitution. What we are trying to do here is like to amend the NYSC Act. I understand your position, we have to follow that process.”
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UTME: print notification slip from March 6, JAMB tells candidates
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed candidates for the 2018 UTME to start printing their examination notification slip from Tuesday,March 6.
The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in Lagos on Sunday that arrangements had been concluded for the successful conduct of the exam scheduled to hold from March 9 to March 17.“With have successfully conducted the Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Monday, February 26, and based on that, we can confidently say, we are good to go.
“The mock UTME was to expose the candidates to the process as well as test the level of preparedness of the various centres.“Candidates can now go ahead and print their examination notification slips from Tuesday.“These candidates must ensure that these slips are printed before Friday, March 9 in order to familiarise themselves with the examination schedules as no form of excuse for missing the examination will be entertained.
“We want to warn that the board will not reschedule any examination for anybody and so any candidate that fails to adhere strictly to the examination schedule as stated in their slips should have himself or herself to blame,” he told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).Benjamin, however, warned candidates not to go to their respective centres with prohibited items such as telephones, wristwatches, pens, and other devices.NAN reports that over 1.6 million candidates are expected to write the examination in 602 centres across the country.
Send your child to school or risk imprisonment
The Bayelsa State Government has vowed to arrest and prosecute any parent who refuses to allow his child to acquire formal education.
The decision came on the heels of the signing into law of the Compulsory Primary and Secondary Education Law by Governor Seriake Dickson.
Addressing journalists on Thursday after a meeting by the State Executive Council, the Commissioner for Education, Jonathan Obuebite, said that with the signing of the bill into law, every child of school age must be enrolled in any of the various model schools in the state. Obuebite warned that the parents or guardians of any child seen loitering or hawking during school hours would be dealt with as provided in the new law.
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Trump Floats Bonuses for Trained, Armed Teachers
PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Thursday suggested rewarding teachers who are trained how to use firearms and have a conceal carry permit with bonuses – one of several ideas the administration is considering as a way to prevent another school shooting in the wake of a Florida school shooting in which a former student killed 17 children and adults.
The president called for “a little bit of a bonus,” according to the White House pool report, for teachers who go through “rigorous training” to carry concealed weapons.
“You can’t hire enough security guards,” Trump said. “But you could have concealed on the teachers.”
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Nigerians are receiving expired education, says U.S. varsity VC
Vice Chancellor of the University of America, California, Prof. Gamalier O. Prince, has said that the change mantra of the Federal Government must fix the educational system if there must be positive improvement in the country.
Prince, who stated that the nation’s academic system expired long ago, said that the leadership of Nigeria had continued to fail because the educational system failed to impact the right qualities and had not shown signs of recovery.
Prince said: “People in Nigeria are getting expired education. That is why you see people who studied engineering and are not able to do engineering feat. You see people who studied computer science and are not able to understand anything or diagnose computer language and what have you. This is because Nigeria’s educational system is a dilapidated one.
Full article: https://guardian.ng/news/nigerians-are-receiving-expired-education-says-u-s-varsity-vc/
Ondo laments influx of unauthorised books in secondary schools
The Ondo State Government on Thursday kicked against the influx of unauthorised publishers and authors selling unapproved books and other instructional materials in public and private secondary schools in the state.
Speaking with journalists in Akure, the Ondo State capital, the Commissioner for Education, Mr. Segun Agagu, said the state was committed to ensuring qualitative education for pupils and to boost their performance in national and international examinations.
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Ex-student sues Oxford, says his 20-year-old degree failed to give him success
A graduate who tried to sue Oxford University because he just missed out on earning a top degree has had his claim thrown out.
Faiz Siddiqui wanted £1m in damages from the university over what he described as “negligently inadequate teaching” that affected his degree grade 20 years ago.
Siddiqui, of Bayswater, west London, claimed that the 2:1 degree had a “marked deleterious effect” on his subsequent career.
However, High Court judge, Mr. Justice Foskett, ruled against the graduate, who was 39 at the time of the trial, after deciding that the “delivery” of part of a history course in 1999-2000 was not “negligently inadequate.”
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UNESCO Promises Support For Nigeria’s Education System
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Tuesday reassured Nigeria and other member states of its commitment to reforming the Education and Information, Communication Technology (ICT) system.
Mr Yao Ydo, Regional Director, UNESCO, made the promise in Lagos on Tuesday at the maiden edition of the Association of Communication Scholars and Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN) Eminent Persons Strategy Series.
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We are ready to offer Nigerians affordable education – Netherlands
The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Nigeria on Wednesday announced the readiness of Dutch universities and other higher educational institutions to offer qualitative and affordable education to Nigerians.
The embassy’s Advisor for Trade and Economic Affairs, Mrs Sonia Odije, disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos ahead of the Second “Study in Holland Fair’’ in Lagos. Odije said that following the First Study in Holland on June 10, last year, a delegation of Dutch universities and other institutions would soon be visiting Lagos for recruitment of Nigerians.
Full Article : https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/02/ready-offer-nigerians-affordable-education-netherlands/
Why students lose interest in Mathematics — Educationist
An educationist, Mr Philip Balogun, on Friday said that many students lose interest in Mathematics because of the difficult and cumbersome processes applied by their teachers.
Balogun, who is Vice Principal, Grace Group of Schools, Gbagada, spoke in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
He said for this reason, many children, right from the tender age, developed cold feet in solving mathematics problems.
The educationist said there was a need to be more creative in teaching the subject to make such students interested in it.
Source : Guardian