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  • Omoluabi Governors’ Cup: NAPPS seeks financial support from S’ West  Governors

    Omoluabi Governors’ Cup: NAPPS seeks financial support from S’ West  Governors

    National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools(NAPPS) has made a clarion  call to  the South West Governors for their  financial assistance/support  towards the South West Sports Festival tagged ‘Omoluabi Governors’ Cup”(OGC 2025).

    The first edition of the festival themed ‘The Revitalization Era’, was held at various centres in the ancient city of Ibadan between February 21st-Monday 24th with the grand finale held at the Lekan Salami Stadium.

    Reviewing the games which had over three hundred athletes and officials in attendance,  President of the South West Chapter of  NAPPS, Comrade Deji Olatona, is  seeking the support of the regional Excellences from the zone for effective collaboration ahead of the second edition of the Festival coming up in Ekiti in February next year.

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    “Aside the fact the festival was aimed at discovering and nurturing the youths to stardom, we also believed that it help in preparing them for future, ”Olatona said.

    Comrade Olatona who

    Speaking further, Olatona expressed gratitude to the organising committee for a hitch free  first edition  of  the festival even  as he commended the South West Governors for creating an enabling environment and recognition of the festival through their various  offices.

    He said: “The purpose of the competition was achieved  as it brought a lot of potentials and discovery of talents which we have started grooming for future National engagements and it had Increased confidence and facilitated youthful co-existence.”

    He added that NAPPS  need to be recognised and encouraged by the pragmatic and progressive Executive South West Governors for speaking with one voice devoid of political affiliations and accepting the ethos of Omoluabi as the emblem of the entire South West’.

    It would be recalled that ,Ekiti State emerged the champion of the male’s football event while Oyo and Lagos States won silver and bronze medals respectively. In the female’s football event, Oyo State  picked gold medal while Ondo and Lagos placed  second and third position. Ekiti won the overall event followed by Oyo and Ondo in second and third position respectively.

  • Building collapse: NAPPS urges proprietors to build schools themselves

    The Lagos State chapter of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has urged private school owners to endeavour to build their school structures themselves, rather than depend on a leased or developers’ building to operate.

    The association’s President of the association, Mr Wasiu Adumadeyin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos that this was to ensure that the school building conformed with specified standard and that the quality of material used were of recommended quality.

    Adumadeyin spoke against the backdrop of the collapsed three-storey building housing a school at Ita-Faji area of Lagos Island which killed 20 people.

    NAN reports that the building collapsed on March 13 at about 10 a.m. when classes were ongoing and among those killed were school children, while 48 others were injured and some still receiving treatment in some public hospitals in Lagos.

    “NAPPS is more saddened because of the life of the young ones that we lost, and we sympathise with the family of the deceased and pray for the quick recovery of those injured.

    “What is worth doing at all is worth doing well, so our advice to our members is to build their school building themselves.

    “Considering the use in which the building will be put into, with emphasis on the safety of the children who are vulnerable,” he said.

    Adumadeyin noted that if it was impossible for the proprietors to build schools themselves due to land and financial constraints, they must involve an architect who could confirm the state of the building and renovate it in accordance with recommended standard.

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    “I agree that some private schools are not doing it right, though they are few, their actions tarnish the image of the good schools.

    “Most public schools in Lagos State have good structures although the quality of teaching and learning standard may be questionable.

    “As school owners, we should think about safety first because students should not be accommodated in a risky environment for whatever reasons,” he said.

    Adumadeyin revealed that the association had also visited the scene of the collapsed building in spite of the fact that the owner was not their member and had supported some of the injured at general hospital, Marina with cash.

    He said NAPPS had also concluded plans to partner with the Lagos State Government to ensure such incidents never reccurred, especially in schools. (NAN)

  • NAPPS to gift best teacher N1m

    The best private school teacher in Lagos will be rewarded with N1 million by the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) Friday next week at the National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.

    NAPPS President, Alhaji Wasiu Adumadeyi told The Nation that the teacher selected from the list of best teachers from each school, would also go home with a deep freezer.

    All others recognised as the best by their schools would get certificates at the event expected to be attended by about 20,000 teachers.

    “We will use the opportunity of the NAPPS Day to give the best teacher for Lagos State a deep freezer and other prizes.  Schools have already submitted the names of their best teachers – one per school.  We are already compiling names to select the overall best.  All the best teachers will be presented with certificates,” he said.

    Adumadeyi said the N1 million is courtesy of Hypotract Nigeria Ltd, which is supporting NAPPS to host the event.

    He said the event was the association’s way of honouring teachers for their efforts in educating Nigerian children.

    In commemoration of the World Teachers’ Day tomorrow, Adumadeyi said NAPPS schools would allow parents to take classes so teachers could relax.

    “Tomorrow, we will be involving our parents to take teachers’ place to teach the children just so the teachers can rest.  We want parents who volunteer to teach to know how it feels,” he said.

    Regarding the challenge of teacher deficit, the NAPPS president appealed to the government to incentivize the teaching profession and offer scholarships to encourage students read education in the university.

    He lamented that schools were finding it difficult employing teachers specialized in Islamic Religious Studies and local languages.

    “We are having challenges in getting teachers in particular subjects like Yoruba, Islamic Religious Studies, because most people don’t read those subjects again.  NASFAT made an appeal to the Deputy Governo to find a way out – perhaps by providing incentives for the students to study those subjects,” he said.

    To encourage its members employ qualified teachers, the NAPPS President said the body had started a database of qualified teachers on its website that schools could access when in need.

    “We have a databank of teachers.  It is on our website.  Whenever applicants apply, they enter their data.  We have an education board in charge of it.  When schools need teachers, they can access the databank for qualified teachers,” he said.

     

  • NAPPS seeks exemption from Land Use Charge

    National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Lagos State chapter President Alhaji  Wasiu Adumadeyin has called for the exemption of the Land Use Charge on private schools in the state.

    Adumadeyin spoke in Lagos during the swearing in of the 12 new executives of the Somolu chapter of NAPPS, who were elected to serve for two years.

    Adumadeyin said NAPPS has  made a case against the charge, adding that the group also went further by presenting a paper to the National Assembly on its position.

    “The government should exempt  private schools from all expenses, because education is a social service to humanity and not a business venture. If the government keeps on levying private schools, the school will become a financial burden to the parents most of who are at financially challenged owing to the economic depression.

    “The government would not be encouraging education, if they continue to put different levies on the private schools. Most private schools exist because they are interested in providing social service and quality education to the mases. The government should therefore not squeeze them by its different tariff and levies.”

    He urged the new executives to keep on the good works, while admonishing members to support them.

    Private schools should not pay for the Land Use Charge. We are partners in progress; we are assisting the government in the education sector and we are also employing people.  The effect of all these payments put on us would be on the parents, as we

  • Stop violence against children -Private school owners

    Stop violence against children -Private school owners

    The National Associa­tion of Proprietors of Private Schools, (NAPPS), Kuje  chapter in the FCT on Saturday urged parents and guardians to work toward stopping violence against children in the country.

    Amb. Micheal Oladeji, the Chairman of the Kuje chapter, also Chairman of Glory and Praise International School made the call during a sensitisation campaign to kick against child abuse and violence against children in the country.

    Oladeji said that the growing rate of child abuse, as well as violence against women and children in the country was becoming worrisome and needed immediate attention to stop the menace.

    He said “we want Nigerian parents to know who their neighbours are and the kind of people they leave their children with at home to reduce child abuse in the county.

    “We also want parents and guardians to stop indiscriminate brutality on children in the name of discipline.

    “We equally advice parents not to consider only the mone­tary issues in enrolling their wards in private schools, but to consider the pedigree and environment the school oper­ates.”

    He also called on the Federal Ministry of Educational to urgently stop the planned introduction of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in primary school curriculum.

    The chairman, however, called on the attention of education au­thorities and police to monitor the indiscriminate es­tablishment of private schools, describing some of them as il­legal and lacking adequate fa­cilities.

    He said “education authorities and the police should monitor and check schools that are springing up indiscriminately so that there can be standard in the country.”

    Oladeji also called on parents and guardians to monitor the kind of videos and music their children watched and listened to.

  • Ekiti NAPPS sacks President for misconduct

    The Ekiti State chapter of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has removed its president, Alhaji Saka Adeleye, over alleged abuse of office and frivolous expenses.

    Adeleye’s alleged offences, according to the panel, violated Article 17 (A) and (B) of NAPPS constitution.

    A five-member caretaker committee has been inaugurated to run the affairs of the association for three months with Prince  Omodara as chairman

    NAPPS Elders’ Council at a meeting in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, on Thursday last week, set up an investigation panel comprising five members to look into the association’s financial records under Adeleye.

    The panel had as members Chief Femi Balogun (chairman), Otunba Segun Ola, Mr. Daniel Alabi, Pastor A.G. Ekundayo and Elder Samson Omoboko.

    According to a copy of the resolutions of Elders’ Council made available to The Nation, the state executive will step aside for six weeks to allow for investigation of Adeleye’s tenure.

    It reads in part: “In view of the grave allegations levelled against the President and the executive members and to give room for fair investigation, the state executive of NAPPS should step aside for about six weeks.

    “The terms of reference of the panel are:

    “To examine the seven-point allegations against the President being the major issue that led to the disagreements with the state executive.

    “To examine the income and expenditure profile of the association since the inception of this administration; and

    “To consider the circumstances that led to the award of contracts during the Southwest conference and other incidental and related issues.”

  • ‘Govt unfair to private schools’

    Chairman of Ogun State NAPPS Dr Abayomi Jiboku, said the government is not fair to the body. According to him,the association is already used to government’s policy somersault. In this interview with ADEGUNLE OLUGBAMILA, he speaks on the delayed exam and other issues

    How did NAPPS receive  the news of the Basic Certificate Education Examination?

    We are used to what is happening now because even assuming the exam was written on time, the results would not come out at the time that you would like to make use of them for promotion. So, we have just been writing the exam for the sake of writing it. It did not really matter if we did not write, because we have our own NAPPS exam which of course, is more of quality in standard and we rely more on it to effect our promotions.

    “Now, we would be resuming in September and the results would not come out until maybe October or early November. Would the results not be belated by then? As far as NAPPS is concerned, we have never been using the results of that examination in promoting our students. It is just that we have to write it since we are approved by the Federal Government.

    Is the Ministry of Education being fair on private schools in the state?

    Of course not! Let me use my school as an example. We have written our exams; we have got  the students ready to go home with their parents. All of a sudden, the government said they wanted to start writing their exam from Tuesday, July21, when the school authority and PTA have decided that today (Saturday, July 18) we would be vacating and parents would come back between July 27 and 30 to collect their report sheets.

    We have parents all over Nigeria; those that come all the way from Kwara, Plateau, Abuja,  who want to collect their children. Will I now say no, they cannot? because the ministry has just given a directive? So, I have told the ministry officials that they should go back and give it a consideration, because I cannot stop my parents from picking their children today.

    And what does this say about government’s approach to private schools?

    “Of course they (government) are being unfair to private pupils and the truth is that public schools manned by the state government are treated as public entities.

    “We are private schools. We cannot afford to be lackadaisical or loose in our approach to treating matters that relate to the education of these children, because these parents have brought their children to private schools, knowing full well that there is nothing to write about public education. So, we cannot afford to disappoint them.

    “We need to give them the value for their money and all the seriousness they deserve. So, we cannot do things the way the government does it, because they believe they are running public institutions.

  • Sterling Bank, NAPPS partner on educational devt

    Sterling Bank Plc has partnered with the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) Lagos Chapter, to promote the educational sector.

    At a media briefing announcing the partnership in Lagos, yesterday, the President, NAPPS, Lagos Chapter,  Yomi Otubela said the lender will educate members on book keeping, promote improved accounting system in schools, among other supports.

    He said the bank is one of the supporters of Lagos NAPPS for its three-day annual retreat holding later this month in Lagos.

    He said the group is committed to curbing mass failure in final examination by exposing students to the rudiments of sitting for external examination and ensuring quality control is guaranteed by removing over reliance on teachers’ assessment alone.

    Group Head, Strategy & Communications, Sterling Bank Plc, Shina Atilola, said the lender is committed to adding value to the educational sector.

    He said although government is doing so much to develop the sector but it still has more to do, and that is why the private sector must come in and invest in the education sector.

    He said that government must increase funding to the education sector and ensure that  public schools are better equipped to compete fairly with the private institutions.

    “Most importantly, there is a need for urgent intervention in the education sector by private sector companies because government cannot do it alone. This is why we have decided as a bank to focus on the sector.  Sterling Bank’s intervention in the sector will help to ameliorate some of  the challenges the sector faces. Over the years, youth unemployment has remained one of the daunting challenges in Nigeria, as recent statistics show that over 25 million youths in the country are unemployed,” he said.

    Atilola said that Nigeria will require an investment of about  $1 billion yearly for about 55 to 56 years to transform the education sector. “Our intervention in this sector will hopefully contribute to resolving the problem of unemployment. It will help Nigerians create their own businesses,” he said.

  • ‘Schools not most vulnerable to spread

    Although owners of private schools in Kwara State would comply with the Federal Government’s extension of resumption date in schools till October 13, they decried implementing the decision in states without the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD).

    The Federal Government announced the extension of resumption date for primary and secondary schools by a month, following the outbreak of EVD in parts of the country, as one of the measures to curtail its spread.

    The Kwara State President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Rahaman Lateef, addressed reporters yesterday in Ilorin after an emergency meeting.

    He said he wondered why the Federal Government would single out primary and secondary schools as the most vulnerable to the spread of EVD “when places where people gather to contract the virus are left open.”

    Lateef described the compliance as a call to duty, noting that school ownership should not be for business, but also for social service.

    He hailed NAPPS members for their courage, saying the association’s cooperative society would cushion the effect of resumption extension by giving them food items.

    The NAPPS president, however, urged concerned authorities and government to ensure early resumption because of the economic effect on his members.

    Lateef, who enjoined NAPPS members to be patient, also advised them to engage in crop/vegetable farming, poultry, fishing, bead making and livestock rearing, among others.

    The association, which said the Federal Government should have listed the measures to be taken by schools to prevent the spread or outbreak of EVD, added that it should not have directed closure or extension of resumption date.

    Lateef said the extension would affect the school calendar and the standard of education.

     

  • NAPPS organises unified exam

    The National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has come up with a new initiative called the Unified Examination, which held for the first time in Lagos State last week.

    The examination was conducted among member schools within Agege/Ikeja axis.

    The examination was written by Primary 3-6, JSS1 and 2, and SS1 and SS2 pupils. Primary school pupils wrote English, Mathematics and General Paper. At the Junior Secondary School (JSS) level, the pupils wrote English, Mathematics, General Paper (comprising Civics, Social Studies, Basic Science, Basic Technology and ICT); while at the Senior Secondary level, they wrote English, Mathematics, General Paper (comprising ICT, Civics, and relevant subjects in the science, art and commercial disciplines.

    At LAGOOZ Schools situated in Agege, the pupils were seated as early as 8:00am to take the examination, which is aimed at preparing, testing and getting pupils used to the pattern of public examinations they would face in their terminal classes.

    However, as with any new endeavour, the examination encountered teething problems as question papers did not get to the centres in good time.  One of the affected centres was Brighter Hope Schools, Agege. The question papers did not arrive until some minutes to 10 am.  Augustine Awuje, chief invigilator of the centre, also complained that some of the OMR answer sheets were incomplete, among other imperfections.

    “Aside the late arrival of question papers we are also facing other problems such as incomplete shading papers, the sitting arrangement between junior and secondary school pupils is also a problem. I also think there is a need for more training as most invigilators and teachers are not well informed about the process of the unified examination,” he said.

    Defending the examination, Alhaja Olatundun Ogunmuyiwa, chairperson of NAPPS Agege pupils (in charge of 12 centres), said such occurrence is common with pilot projects and would be addressed.

    “This is the maiden edition of the unified exams and we have encountered some problems in the area of logistics which we have noted. One of the problems we are facing is the collation of questions papers to various centres because all questions are packed according to the schools. This challenge may make some centres to start later than 9am, but we are on top of the situation,” she said.

    Adetoke Gbemisola, an SS1 pupil of the LAGOOZ Schools described the initiative as a welcomed development.

    “I think it is a welcomed idea because our teachers will know more about our capabilities and as pupils we will also be able to learn more. I hope to develop more in my studies and I think this exam will help prepare me. When I initially heard about the exams, I was afraid because I didn’t know what to expect but I am seeing it as an opportunity to development,” he said.

    Adebowale Adeola, who also is an SS1 pupil of the same school, is confident he would pass.

    “It is a good idea and it is going to prepare us for external examinations that we will face in the future. I am confident about my chances and I know the exams will help to prepare me and my quest to become a medical doctor in the future,” he said.

    Otunba Yomi Otubela, Lagos State NAPPS president, said the examination hasmany benefits, including: engendering healthy rivalry among member schools, assisting the association to obtain scholarships from and partner with local and international bodies; inspire schools to cover the syllabus adequately and increase productivity and performance among other things.

    He said: “NAPPS unified examination has the ability to curb mass failure by exposing the pupils to the rudiments of sitting for external examinations organised by independent bodies long before their final examinations. In this way, pupils would have gained the mastery of sitting for final external examinations such as WAEC, JAMB and NECO.

    “The unified exams will also ensure that quality control is guaranteed, in the sense that, unified examination removes over reliance on teacher’s assessment alone. It also guides against favouritism and mediocrity. NAPPS unified examination will ensure that teachers complete their scheme of work on time since the pupils will be made to face external examinations at some time. The exams can also be used as a measure of performance for teachers and even schools since results can be benchmarked.”