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  • Katsina spends N3.5bn on renovation of 400 primary schools

    The Katsina State Government said it spent N3.5 billion to renovate 400 primary schools across the state in 2016.

    Malam Lawal Buhari Daura, the Executive Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), disclosed this on Wednesday in Katsina in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

    He said that government rehabilitated 100 schools each in Daura and Funtua senatorial zones during the period under review.

    He added that the state government also rehabilitated 130 primary schools in Katsina senatorial zone, and constructed 50 new primary schools across the state.”

    Daura said that the board had identified schools to be renovated in 2017.

    He revealed that the state government was carrying out the renovation of schools in phases in order to achieve the desired goal.

     

  • Nasarawa revokes 36 SUBEB contracts

    Nasarawa revokes 36 SUBEB contracts

    Nasarawa State Government has revoked 36 ongoing contacts, awarded by the  State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) for flouting contractual agreements.

    Mr Yakubu Ubangari, Executive Secretary of SUBEB, told newsmen on Friday in Lafia, that the revoked projects were located across all the 13 local government areas of the state.

    According to him, the state government, through the board revoked the contracts after serving the contractors with several notices of warning to adhere strictly to the terms of the agreement.

    “We served the defaulting contractors with several notices of warning to resume work at the site and continue their work but they failed to resume,“ he said.

    He said that the projects were at different levels of completion, ranging from 30 per cent to 80 per cent.

    “This decision also entails that the defaulters would have to refund the monies already paid to them from the board for those projects as soon as possible,” Ubangari said.

    He said that the state governor recently paid  N4.3 billion to Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB) as its counterpart fund for four years starting from 2012.

    Ubangari said the state assessed N8.6 billion from UBEB to implement projects aimed at meeting the objectives of basic education in the state.

    “The process is already on, and in no distant time we shall commence the award of contracts,” he said.

    He explained that as part of the board’s 2017 plan, it would give priority to manpower development by building the capacity of teachers and other members of staff for better service delivery.

  • Lagos teachers tasked on development plan

    Lagos teachers tasked on development plan

    The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Idiat Adebule, on Wednesday urged public school head teachers to come up with a school development plan in 2017, to improve basic education and enhance students’ personalities.

    Adebule, who is also the state Commissioner for Education, made the call at the end of the year programme for Lagos State Primary Schools Head Teachers organised by the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in Lagos.

    She said also urged them to make school improvement the first and foremost responsibility, to improve education standard.

    ”The government appreciates all your contributions to the development of primary education and has decided to approve teacher’s promotion with all financial benefits. Running cost to school managers has also been increased.

    ”I’m appealing that we continue to do what is right, be dedicated, disciplined and shun all forms of malpractice in the profession so that the state government can do more for our teachers.

    ”Always be reminded that the duty of moulding leaders who will make or mar our nation’s future, is in your hands, ”Adebule said.

    Also speaking, the Wife of the State Governor, Mrs Bolanle Ambode, urged teachers to be disciplined, dedicated and to double their efforts in moulding and preparing the students for leadership roles in future.

    ”Your dedication and improved attitude to work earned our primary education the best in the country.

    ”The reward for hard work is more work. I appeal that you continue to adhere to the ethics of your profession so that Lagos State will continue to be a pacesetter in the country’s education sector, ” Ambode said.

    In his address, Dr Ganiyu Sopeyin, Executive Chairman, Lagos SUBEB, said that in spite of the economic recession, the state recorded huge improvement in the education sector.

    ”The state’s education sector has experienced infrastructural upgrade, regular training of teachers, improved welfare packages for teachers. All these improved teaching and learning performance in our schools.

    ”These achievements would not have been possible without the immense support and efforts of the Gov. Ambode-led administration; I urge our teachers to continue to support government’s efforts, ” he said.

    Mr Adesegun Raheem, Chairman, the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Lagos State Wing, urged the state government to sustain the improvement in the sector.

    ”The year 2016 was a good year for Lagos as it recorded labour-friendly activities and the state won the best in primary education,” Raheem said.

    Mrs Oluwatoyin Edu, Chairperson, Association of Primary School Head Teachers of Nigeria (AOPSHON), Lagos State Wing, commended the state government for improving education at all levels in the state.

    ”We recorded increased population of students in our public schools as well as improved academic performance due to enhanced school development.

    ”We promise to continue to do our best to reciprocate the confidence reposed on us by the state government,” Edu said.

  • Ondo School workers protest non-payment of 13 months salaries

    Ondo School workers protest non-payment of 13 months salaries

     

    Learning and other educational activities were on Monday morning disrupted at the St Francis Caring Heart Mega School, Owaluwa in Owo local government area of Ondo State following a peaceful protest staged by non-teaching staff of the school over non-payment of their 13 months salaries.

    The aggrieved workers, as early as 7.30am storm the school, locked the gate and prevented the teachers and pupils from entering the school.

    The protesting workers, numbering 15, were marred with placards carrying different inscriptions such as “Gov Mimiko pay our money ‘, We are starving’, We have children too” and several others.

    Speaking on behalf of the protesters,Mr Abu Ayodeji said they have been pressing for the payment of their salaries since the beginning of this year but all efforts but only receiving negative response from the government.

    Ayodeji said they would continue the protest until the government finds solution to the problem.

    The Commissioner of Education in Ondo State, Mr Adejuyigbe was not available for comments as all his mobile phones were switched off as at the time of filing this report.

    But, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) staff, who preferred anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the issue said though the workers are not directly in the pay roll of the government but effort is at the top gear to pay the contractor for inward settlement of his workers.

    Normalcy  however returned to the school following the intervention of some eminent persons in the town and the police.

     

  • 765 illegal employees, 50 dead teachers in Bayelsa payroll 

    765 illegal employees, 50 dead teachers in Bayelsa payroll 

    The Bayelsa State Government, Thursday, said it found 765 illegally employed teachers and 50 dead persons in the payroll of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).

    A statement from Government House quoted the Executive Secretary, SUBEB, Mr. Walton Liverpool, as saying that the 50 dead persons were uncovered in Ogbia Local Government Education Authority.

    Liverpool, who has been in charge of SUBEB since the beginning of Governor Seriake Dickson’s government, said with the latest discovery the government would have saved about N100million monthly at the end of the exercise.

    He said the illegally employed teachers were discovered in all the local government areas with Ogbia topping the list with 230 persons.

    But there were fears that the ongoing cleansing in the sector was a way of reducing the bloated workforce in the educational system.

    Liverpool gave the figures as Southern Ijaw LGEA, 192, Sagbama LGEA, 136, Ekeremor LGEA, 108, Brass LGEA, 9, Nembe LGEA, 25, Yenagoa LGEA, 25 and Kolokuma/Opokuma LGEA, 40.

    He said:  “These sets of workers were illegally employed by fraudsters and now parading as civil servants. As you are all aware, since the inception of the present administration, an embargo has been placed on fresh employment, but some people went behind to employ their cronies and backdated it to 2007.

    “In course of our investigation, after cross checking the 2007 nominal roll and vouchers with the recent ones, it was discovered that over 765 names have been infused. This has been the practice of some scrupulous officers in the Local Government education Authorities.

    “Some of the affected workers are being aided by the Local Government Education Authority staff. As I am talking to you now, one of them is cooling off at the State Criminal Investigations Department and more will still be arrested”.

    Speaking on ghost workers, he said: “It will interest you to know that there are some people on the payroll that are residing in Lagos, Abuja and even Ghana and are drawing salaries in Bayelsa. I am not exaggerating, it is happening.

    “By the time, we conclude this exercise, more names will be discovered. I have my facts; those perpetrating the atrocities are from the Board headquarters but from the LGEAs. With this discovery, the state government has been able to save N100m from SUBEB alone.

    “At the end of the exercise, the state government will save over N100m from the education sector. As you are all aware, the State governor has directed all the Headmasters and Principals to prepare the monthly vouchers.”

     

  • Plateau recruits 4,850 adhoc teachers

    Plateau recruits 4,850 adhoc teachers

    The Plateau Government has approved the recruitment of 4, 850 ad hoc teachers as part of efforts to address the acute shortage of teachers in the state.

    Prof. Mathew Sule, the Executive Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Jos.

    He said that the move was to address staffing deficit that had affected the quality of education in the state.

    “Staffing deficit in public primary schools in Plateau has been a major concern and priority to the administration of Governor Lalong.

    “The governor has approved the recruitment of 4, 850 ad hoc teachers for primary schools and we expect them in the classes very soon,” he said.

    The official said that government would hold an orientation programme for the ad hoc teachers before posting them to their various stations.

    He said that 403 teachers, who have completed the Federal Teachers Training Scheme, have also been engaged to bridge the shortage of manpower in public schools.

    “The 403 teachers from the programme of 2013-2014 have been engaged under the auspices of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).

    “The programme has been running for more than a decade with the objective of recruiting these teachers at the end of their two years training, and this is the first time teachers will be absorbed in the state under the scheme.

    “We have notified those teachers that they would soon be called upon to commence work,’’ he added.

    Sule said that the government had accorded top priority to payment of teachers, “despite the financial difficulties in paying other civil servants”.

    He said that the biometric exercise for teachers was 95 per cent completed, and expressed confidence that the entire exercise would be completed by the end of May.