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  • Pray, schools told

    Pray, schools told

    Mr Oloniyo
    Mr Oloniyo

    Chairman of the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) of Peaklane Primary School, Alagbole, Lagos State, Mr Gboyega Oloniyo, has charged schools to instil virtues of honesty and prayer in their pupils to achieve a high success rate.

    He said the institution was successful because of its emphasis on prayers by the students and management of the school.

    Speaking to The Nation at the school’s Valedictory and prize-giving day for the nursery school and primary six, Mr Oloniyo said: “There is value for money in Peaklane. Here, we have a total school where they give them total education. Not just being built for the present but for the future. They pray a lot in this school. If you see these children praying, you would think they are in a prayer cantonment and that is the essence of what the lord is doing in their lives, which is why this day is a success. This is a school that builds them to fear the lord.”

    Dancing to music from a live band with other parents and well-wishers, Oloniyo expressed his excitement over his son, Oluwademilade Oloniyoset’s graduation.

    He charged the pupils to: “Be honest in life.

    “Honesty is a very expensive thing and you do not expect it from a cheap person. The children we are building in this school are responsible and it is expected of them to go out and manifest such and be the change agents that Nigeria is really waiting for. Of course, honesty comes with a cost so they should be ready to pay the price.”

    The school’s Director, Mrs Ify Nwachukwu, was in high spirits, about passing out her “rising stars and releasing them into the next level.”

    She said: : “Always take responsibility for creating the future of your dreams, the future that we can all be proud of. As you move to the next phase, be diligent in your studies, be disciplined, obey your parents and always listen to wise, godly counsel. Your foundation would surely be tested so make up your mind to stand firm. Don’t allow yourselves to be influenced negatively, rather, be agents of change.”

    The ceremony featured dance presentations, farewell messages, award presentations and an exhortation by Rev Samuel Wright, who told parents about their increasing responsibilities in the growth of the children.

    In his message titled: “Arrows in the hand of God,” Wright said: “Parents, teach them in the way they should go. Teach them values of patience, endurance and good things, pray with them every day. Let them know that academic and financial excellence are not the most important things in life, but a relationship with God.”

  • WAEC warns schools, parents against malpractice

    WAEC warns schools, parents against malpractice

    National Head of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria, Charles Eguridu, has issued a warning against parents and schools that engage in organised malpractice, saying they would be caught and dealt with.

    He gave the warning at a WAEC road show on examination malpractice sensitisation, at Excellence Hotel, Ogba, Lagos.

    Eguridu said parents and schools that engage in mass cheating are liable to dire consequences, including persecution by the state.

    To this end, he said WAEC had employed greater measures in combating malpractice, some of which are biometric technology, which identifies each candidate by fingerprint, encrypted method of storing examination questions, such that they cannot be accessed by unauthorised personnel as well as  impromptu inspection of examination centres while exams are ongoing.

    The WAEC boss decried the increasing wave of examination malpractice in Nigeria over the last four years.

    According to WAEC statistics, in 2011, 4.65 per cent of the total candidates that sat for WAEC engaged in malpractice; in 2012, it increased to 7.15 per cent, jumped to 7.75 per cent in 2013 and last year, 8.39 per cent of the 1, 692, 037 candidates who sat for the examinations were found culpable of examination fraud.

    Eguridu said an increasing statistics of malpractice would create a stain on the integrity of WAEC certificate in the international realm, engender mediocres in a society where perpetrators are not prosecuted and undermines the nation’s education system, making it difficult for education policies to be monitored.

    He said: “As a people, our shared and most cherished values appear to rest on the platform of hypocrisy, because what we witness in our private world is in contrast to our values. Those who rig elections are not children, they are parents. When electoral officers falsify election results and we expect something different from children, that is hypocrisy. The present trend of examination malpractice among our youths is a negative symptom of the endemic corruption in our society. An attempt to curb examination malpractice without first addressing the general scourge of society would be meaningless.”

    He appealed to candidates to avoid situations that could implicate them in the examination hall, so that their future would not be jeopardised.

    “I appeal to you as leaders of tomorrow, your tomorrow lies in your hands. As up and coming generation, please take a decision to be different. Don’t join the rat race in examination malpractice, because even if you win the race, you remain a rat. WAEC does not fail anybody. Whether you pass or fail, the choice lies with you”, he said.

  • Firm takes oral health campaign to schools

    Firm takes oral health campaign to schools

    In a bid to ensure better oral health in children, Unilever Nigeria, makers of Pepsodent toothpaste, has embarked on a 21-day behavioural change campaign to educate children on the usefulness of brushing their teeth day and night.

    Speaking at the launch of Pepsodent Oral Health Schools’ Programme in Lagos, Brand Building Director, David Okeme, said the 21-day behavioural change campaign aims at preventing oral health challenges that affect children’s learning ability.

    “The campaign is borne out of the need to reduce the impact of dental cavities as available data revealed that almost 100 per cent of adults globally suffer from dental cavities and 60 to 90 per cent of school children have cavities,” he said.

    Continuing, he said: “This is part of Unilever’s global oral care social missions agenda to improve the oral health of 100 million people by 2020; by convincing them to brush their teeth day and night to stay healthy and happy and live a more enjoyable and fulfilled life.

    “In partnership with the Nigerian Dental Association, Universal Basic Education Board and the Federal Ministry of Health, Pepsodent is committed to improving the oral health of 10 million children in Nigeria by 2020 through the Brush Day and Night Schools’ Programme. One million school children will be reached directly in 2015.

    “We believe kids can change the world by adopting healthy oral habits and they, in turn, can convince their parents to do same.”

    In the same manner, President, Nigerian Dental Association (NDA), Dr. Bode Ijarogbe said children are more vulnerable to dental cavities because they consume more of sweetened food.

    “Children are the ones that have flair for sugar-based products like sweets, cakes, chewing gum, candies, chocolates and even some of the syrups that are taken as medicine. But in this case, we refer to fermentable sugar, that is, sugar that can be acted upon by the bacteria in the mouth.

    “Normally, everyone has bacteria in the mouth and other parts of the body. But as regards formation of cavity, the bacteria in the mouth only become very dangerous in the presence of fermentable sugar-based diet. The sugar acts as diet for the bacteria and produces a by-product of dilute acid which eventually results in cavity formation, resulting in holes which gradually become larger and eventually into tooth ache.

    “If this is not quickly addressed, it results in severe pain which could lead to loss of manpower at work for adult and school absenteeism for the child. The kids are the major target in this programme because they have more cravings for sweet foods. And when these children adopt the habit of a healthy oral lifestyle, they can then spread the message to their parents,” he said.

    Dr. Ijarogbe advised the public to brush their teeth twice daily to reduce the incidence of cavities.

    “We often advise that people should brush their teeth twice a day; probable in the morning and night after dinner.  They should brush with fluoridated toothpaste. NDA wants to be sure that when people brush, they brush with fluoridated toothpaste. As such, we have subjected Pepsodent toothpaste to test before we endorsed its use by the public. We are sure that it contains fluoride. Fluoride is an active ingredient in toothpaste that helps to prevent tooth decay,” he said.

    Commenting on the value proposition of Pepsodent toothpaste, Category Manager, Oral Care, Unilever Nigeria, Bunmi Adeniba said the Pepsodent Triple Protection is one big breakthrough formulation that gives three benefits that one would ordinarily have gotten in three different toothpastes.

    “Pepsodent gives you three benefits in one brush. The unique formulation of Pepsodent Triple Protection guarantees protection against cavities, stains and bad breath. These are the most prevalent oral care needs in most homes,” she said.

  • Imo Police take anti-cult campaign to schools

    The Imo State Police Command has kicked off a sensitisation tour of secondary schools in the state as part of its anti-cultism campaign.

    In a statement signed by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Andrew Enwerem, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), the Command, said the purpose of the visits is to talk to the students on the dangers of cultism and other related vices.

    Some of the schools to be visited as part of the campaign include, Police Secondary School Isu-Nwangele, Isu Girls Secondary School, Emmanuel College Owerri, Holy Ghost College Owerri, Government College Owerri, Owerri Girls College and Naze Secondary School.

    Others are, Egbu Girls Secondary, Ikenegbu Girls Secondary School Owerri, Amakohia Comprehensive Secondary School, Ikenegbu Girls Secondary School Owerri and Boys Secondary School New Owerri, among others.

    During a similar programme in Lagos, the Police, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) urged pupils to avoid criminal activities.

    They made this appeal at the inaugural session of the mentorship platform project Nigeria organised by the African Youth Initiative on Crime Prevention (AYICRIP) in partnership with the Ministry of Youth, Sport and Social Development, Lagos state.

    The programme, aimed at commemorating the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, held at the Sam Shonibare Community Centre, Surulere, Lagos.

    The theme was: “Let’s develop our lives, our communities, our identities, without drugs.”

    Commissioner of Police, Lagos state, Kayode Aderanti, described drug trafficking as a major crime, which enhances other violence in the society, adding that the government should create more channel for mentors to educate students on crime reduction.

    Represented by Edward Egbuka, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Area ‘G’ Commander, Ogba, Aderanti said: “This is the best time to groom you all to abstain from criminal activities because you are less than 17 or 18. And with all you hear today, you will know what is right for you. If you also have the fear of God, you will have a good mindset that this thing is wrong. Watch you company, be focused and be committed because we have Presidents, Governors among you all.

    “To our parents too, good name is better than gold. Try to teach them the importance of hard work, importance of diligence because the family is the building block of the children.”

  • Communities, schools get agric training

    No fewer than 10 communities and five secondary schools in Ondo State have been trained by the West Africa Agricultural Productivity Programme of the Federal University Technology, Akure  (FUTA) for food production.

    The training was on information disseminations, capacity building on poultry management, fish pond management  and cassava multiplication.

    The project, which is a World Bank sponsored programme known as WAAPP-FUTA, started in  2013 but took off last year.

    FUTA Vice Chancellor Prof Adebiyi Daramola  spoke at the opening ceremony of the training programme.

    He expressed concern that the abject poverty and hardship being experienced in the nation with its attendant problems of hunger, misery, disease and starvation may not abate until the necessary mechanisms are put in place to address these daunting challenges through effective food processing strategies.

    According to him, the ever-increasing gap between population growth and food supply was the most serious threat to the survival of humanity.

    Daramola, who was represented by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Development), Prof. Tolulope Akinbogun, noted that addressing many of these challenges brought about the training by the WAAPP- FUTA initiative with the goal of increasing food supply by bridging the gap between the domestic food supply and the total food requirement.

    He said: “With these programmes in place, it becomes imperative that food insecurity should be a thing of the past. I think there is need for Nigeria to have Food Research Agenda that will be pursued since a well-articulated and founded research agenda will deliver the necessary capacities for knowledge-based development.”

    The Coordinator of WAAPP – FUTA, Prof. Taye Amos, noted that the most critical challenge  for governments globally was how to feed the world’s over 7 billion people and reduce poverty.

    According to him, the trend in world hunger has not abated with sub-Saharan Africa the worse hit.

    He said this was because 40 per cent of its population  live on less than $$ 1 per day and one in three people being undernourished and that since one in every four persons in the sub region is a  Nigerian, the need to look at the food situation is very critical.

    Amos pointed out that many authors have observed that there is high rate of increase in food prices due to deficit in local food production saying that WAAPP-FUTA is one of the steps towards mitigating the observations.

  • Laboratory equipment for schools

    A former member of the Ondo State House of Assembly, who represented Ilaje State Constituency I, Oyebo Aladetan has donated laboratory equipment to three secondary schools in the area. The benefiting schools were Community Grammar School, Ilepepe, C&S Academy, Ugbo-Nla and Progressive Secondary School, Igbokoda, all in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State.

    He said the donation became necessary in order to make the students have adequate science background.

    “My motive is to ensure that the students have sound foundation, especially in science education, taking into consideration the dynamism of the society.

    “We are now in the computer age where people start with innovation and we should not be lagging behind. My intention is to give them the opportunity to have first-hand experience, touch the equipment and use them for their future benefits,” he said.

    He blamed his poor academic background on Science subjects for not being a medical practitioner, saying the secondary school he attended had no laboratory equipment, even as the teacher who taught them General Science was not well grounded on the subjects.

    Aladetan said: “Two things motivated my donation of laboratory equipment to these schools; they are my experience in United States where 12 doctors conducted an operation on me and my poor background in science. While in the secondary school, my class teacher would only ask us to define “laboratory and name 10 apparatuses used in laboratory every term.

    “Who knows, if I had had the opportunity to experience, touch and use laboratory equipment during my secondary schools period, I would have been a medical doctor.

  • Saving university staff schools

    SIR: I am greatly worried and irked by the recent moves by the federal government, through the National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission (NUC) to remove employees of the university, who teach in the staff schools from receiving their emoluments from the national treasury, an age-long practice, ostensibly to save funds, in the face of the economic challenges currently besetting the nation.

    Universities have their peculiar cultures and traditions. Let me quickly recall that university staff schools are part of the culture and tradition of universities.  We should appreciate that most universities all over the world, are semi-autonomous communities and are exclusive to scholars (teachers and students).  Because of this exclusive nature, university campuses are communities, which provide basic municipal infrastructure like water, power, waste disposal, sewage, housing, hospital/medical services and other utilities, including elementary and primary schools for children of staff members.  In the course of delivering sound education, teachers are expected to be the purveyors of education by making it possible for children of university staff to access both qualitative and subsidised basic education.  It is just fair then that they should derive such benefit from the system they are striving so hard to promote and serve!

    The removal of the already poorly-paid university staff and academic employees of such schools from government payroll would mean that the affected workers would have no option than to pay multiples of the present fees in order to cater for the salaries of primary school teachers. It is worthy of mention that university staff primary schools have produced eminent scholars, professors, professionals in many fields as well as captains of industries, who have justified whatever resources spent on them by the government and in the process, have given back to the Nigerian nation.

    Beyond their benefits to university staff, their children and wards, staff schools also serve as training laboratories and veritable platforms for undergraduate and postgraduate students from our faculties of education in the sense that students from other faculties and institutes in the university often patronise the staff schools in carrying out researches such as clinical research from the colleges of medicine, drama education from the faculties of arts, microbiological studies from the faculties of sciences and pharmacy, among others.

    Perhaps, it was based on the above-mentioned merits that the federal government accepted in the agreement with university-based staff unions such as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), that the government would continue to bear the full capital and recurrent costs of the schools.

    Regrettably, the new circular from the NSIWC is nothing but an attempt to breach and vitiate this agreement that has now turned out to be subject of tension in the Nigerian university system.  This should be prevented. For a system that has suffered so much from strikes and industrial actions, all stakeholders should avoid further industrial unrest in the system. The position and contention of the unions, particularly SSANU, is that the 2009 agreement, which was freely entered into by the federal government through the instrumentality of collective bargaining, is sacrosanct and cannot be repudiated by any directive or circular, except both parties voluntarily review such agreement.  Any attempt to desecrate the sanctity of their agreement would throw our almost stabilising university system into another round of avoidable crisis, a situation the nation cannot afford experience again.

    The way out would be for government to invite the unions for another round of negotiations on this and other relevant matters, as the 2009 agreement is due for review every four years after assessing the workability or otherwise of the existing clauses. Rather than unilaterally vitiating the agreement, the government should do the needful and never rush into taking any decision by saying primary school staff “must” be removed from the government payrolls.

    •  Abdussobur Salaam,

    Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB)

  • Reduce taxes for private schools, owners urge

    Private schools under the umbrella of the Association of Formidable Educational Development (AFED) have urged the Federal Government to enact low-cost mass education model policies to be able to sustain low cost educational services.

    These policies, they said, should incorporate the establishment of an education bank with low interest or non-interest rates, grants, loans for the services providers, training and capacity building and reduction in tax.

    Its National President, Mrs Ifejola Dada, said this at a briefing to mark the one-week Eighth National Congress of AFED.

    The congress, which holds tomorrow, has as theme: “The AFED low-cost mass education model sustainability measure in the era of global economic recession.”

    She said: “We are faced with double taxation from the government. We should be tax-free because we are low-cost services providers. The government should not allow their agencies to encroach into our schools.

    “They will say we should pay for water, dustbin waste, gutter waste and so many other taxes and they will tell you right away that you must have many toilets or else they will close down your school and will still collect money from you. Which purse is that money going to? We really need the government to come to our aid because we ae assisting them to provide quality education for all.

    “We charge as low as N5, 000 for school fees; in Epe, N3, 000. Money for approval has increased and that means we have to increase school fees thereby sending the children back to the streets. If the government can pay N39,000 per child in government schools they can as well assist us.

    “We discover that there are many children hawking on the street. We want the local government to ensure that they don’t allow children to hawk.”

  • How we battle fuel scarcity, blackout by schools, mothers

    How we battle fuel scarcity, blackout by schools, mothers

    How have homes and schools been coping with fuel scarcity and blackout?

    It has been terrible, many said yesterday as they relived their experiences.

    Taking the children to schools and  back has not been easy, some mothers told The Nation.

    A teacher, Hajia Sherifah Yusuf-Ajibade, said she could not go and pick her children from their school in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, for midterm holiday yesterday because she had no fuel in her car.

    She hopes to get fuel today for the trip.

    “We can’t pick my children from school for midterm break. The vehicle expected to go to Vanguards Academy in Ijebu-Ode could not get fuel. The driver had been on the queue since 8am. Now, as at now (3pm), the queue has not been dismantled, no thanks to the unscrupulous motorists who couldn’t demonstrate civility for once. He was quite close to the entrance when the queue got disorganised. I have been looking forward to having the children today (yesterday) but nay, I hope and pray we will have a different story tomorrow Insha Allah,” she posted on Change Monitor, a WhatsApp group chat.

    Hajia Yusuf-Ajibade, who teaches at As-Siddiq Schools in Ketu, Lagos, said the pupils shouted Allahu Akbar (God is the Greatest) when light came up after the school got fuel for its generator.

    “For some time now, we have not had electricity from the distribution company. Thank God female factor got us 50 litres of fuel at N87 today (yesterday) at Conoil filling Station opposite Centre for Management Development (CMD), Shangisha. Two of my colleagues went there with two 25-litre gallons and explained to the officers coordinating the crowd that the school needs fuel, after lamenting the ordeal the kids in the Creche and classes are facing because the generator has no fuel, they sold for them and under one hour they were back in the school. The neighbours who informed us of the availability of fuel in the station were left on the queue. When they returned and put on the generating set, the children in the classes shouted Allahu Akbar (God is the Greatest) and within a few minutes, the ones at the Creche slept off. The school management and staff felt relieved,” she said.

    Mrs Lydia Omotosho, who lives on College Road, Ogba, Lagos, said her children have been going to school late because of fuel scarcity and blackout.

    According to her, she has not been able to pump water at home because of the blackout.

    She said she had been going to the frozen foods shop on her street with others on the neighbourhood to fetch water.

    Mrs Kikelomo Amusa, who also lives in Ogba, said: “Thank God my children’s school, Solid Gate Montessori School, College Road, is not too far from the house, so since there is no longer fuel and light, we trek together to school. It is very stressful because I have three children; two are going to the school, while the last one is still a baby. I have to wake up earlier than usual and look for water to bathe them.

    “We all trek to their school and I back the baby because I cannot leave my baby at home alone; my husband would have gone to work.”

    Mr Samuel Ojo, the Administrator of Claridge Schools, Ifako Ijaye, Lagos said fuel scarcity did not hit the school too hard because it got petrol from the black market at a higher price.

    The school, he said, shifted mid-term break, initially scheduled for next week to this week.

    Mrs Wunmi Rajh-Label said her three children could not go to school, because they could not  have their bathe, adding that her family’s two cars are at home with no fuel to run them.

    Mrs Uju Ifeakor, Headteacher of Hallmark Nursery and Primary School at Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos, said her school’s close ties with a filling station enabled them to get petrol at the normal price. The school buses, she said, operated without hitch, adding that academic activities went on smoothly. But, the school recorded scanty turn out of parents at its open day yesterday.

    A parent at the open day, Mrs Uche Okoye, said she had confined her car to taking her children to school to manage fuel.

    She lamented the high cost of petrol at the black market which she patronises to preserve her foodstuff.

    Headmistress of Right Choice Divine Schools, Ogba Mrs Nike Peters said the school recorded low turnout of pupils this week, because it could not fuel its bus.

    “We had to call parents on Sunday to apologise to them that our school bus would not be available to pick them in the morning, so they should bring their children to school themselves. Those that stay close to school were able to make it but most pupils were not able to come to school. The school is very scanty and uncomfortable because we were not able to power the generator to put on fan and air conditioner for them. And we had to buy at the black market to fuel our generating set to pump water,” Mrs Peters said.

    At Al-Wasi Schools in Mushin, the story was not different. “Our school bus did not work due to unavailability of fuel,” said Hajia Zaynab Ahmad-Taiwo, the Headteacher.

    Academic activities, she said, were partially affected because teachers came late.

     

  • Assemblies of God factions disrupt schools handover

    Assemblies of God factions disrupt schools handover

    Abia state Governor Theodore Orji was ready to hand over four primary schools owned by Assemblies of God Church to their owners in furtherance of the administration’s policy, but two representatives of factions of the church came forward to collect the papers.

    That startled the governor who quickly saved further embarassments by asking the claimants to return to their seats while the matter was sorted out.

    The development took place at the return of 100 primary schools to their original owners by the state government.

    The state government had, three years ago, returned over 30 secondary schools to their original owners  and now decided to extend the policy to the primary level of education.    One hundred primary schools were returned.

    Governor Orji was to hand over the documents of the primary schools to the church when two different groups appeared shouting and claiming to be the rightful owners of the Assemblies of God Church schools that were being returned to them by the state government.

    Orji was taken aback when two men stepped onto the podium to receive the ownership certificate of the four schools handed over to Assemblies of God with both of them stretching out their hands to take the documents from the governor.

    As none of the factional representatives was prepared to budge, the governor asked them to go back, saying, “We will sort it out” and continued with the ceremony.

    The governor demonstrated maturity as he saved what would have been a clash between two factions of Assemblies of God who carried their disgraceful politics to the governor’s office as both factions wanted to take the documents.

    Governor Orji, in his wisdom, laughed it off and refused to hand the schools or the documents over to any of the factions, even as he told them that the issue would be resolved later.

    Handing over the documents of the schools to their original owners, Governor Orji said it was regrettable that, for decades, the policy of handing over the schools to their original owners has been in the limbo, expressing his joy that his administration has broken the jinx.

    The governor who said the hand over programme would be in phases, also noted with happiness that the handover of secondary schools has impacted positively on the system as has manifested in the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) and other results in recent period.

    He said the government was emboldened to embark on the handover programme to “right the wrongs” done to the churches who are the original school owners.

    Orji said: “I am proud to attest that there has been appreciable impact of this policy reversal on the secondary schools we returned to their original owners. It is my belief that these schools we returned today will experience similar transformation which was experienced in the secondary schools that were returned to their original owners.”

    According to him, if the trend in of high academic and moral standard continued to be sustained in the schools that were returned, it would encourage his successor to bring the exercise to logical conclusion by returning the remaining schools to their original owners after sorting out the controversies of ownership.

    The Abia State governor asserted that private proprietors and religious organisations have proved their effectiveness in running schools, hence he was emboldened in taking the decision to reverse the “wrong” policy that made government to take over schools from their original owners over four decades ago.

    He said his action was based on his “pursuit of equity, fairness and righting of wrongs” done by past governments that implemented the policy of appropriating schools; leaving their owners to agonise as fortunes of education dipped drastically.

    Commissioner for education, Dr Monica Phillips had earlier in her address noted that government was motivated by the need “to revive our cherished values” when it embarked on returning schools to their original owners”.

    She urged the new owners to always liaise with the Ministry of Education in order to keep abreast with global trends in education and in so doing maintain international standards in Abia school system.

    The breakdown showed that the Anglican Church got 26 primary schools returned to it, followed by the Catholic Church with 25, Methodist Church 16 and Qua Iboe Church 12.

    Other original owners that got their primary schools back included Seventh Day Adventist Church that got back eight schools, Presbyterian Church six, Assemblies of God four while Apostolic Church had two primary schools returned to it.