The analysis of candidates’ performance showed that out of the 8,139 candidates that sat the examination, 3,424 candidates representing 42.07 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects (with or without English Language and/or Mathematics).
Education
Mother tongue aids students’performance, says expert
Mother tongue aids students’performance, says expert
It is imperative to adopt the mother tongue or indigenous languages for teaching from the lower cadre to tertiary institutions to make students perform better.
The Federal Government announced in December 2022, that first languages would be used for instruction in primary schools.
Atala noted that students would do better when taught in their mother tongues or indigenous languages, adding that his books are geared towards popularising and advocating the use of mother tongue as medium of instruction in schools.
“If all children or everyone in Africa is educated in the first languages, it means that there will no longer be an illiterate person in Africa, and this will in turn impact governance and communities positively,” he said.
He decried Africa’s underdeveloped status in comparison with the rest of the world because education is done in foreign languages.He urged Africans to place premium on their languages to boost all round development.
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“Precisely in 1884/ 1885, at the realisation of the Second Industrial Revolution, seven European nations sat in Berlin, Germany to impose their languages and cultures on Africa. Their languages have locked up education from the majority of our people. That singular act sent Africa back to the Dark Ages which ended in the 15th century.
“Educate everybody in Africa in the first languages, that means there will no longer be an illiterate person in Africa. And that will impact governance in the communities positively.
“Africa is not modern because the continent has not used its first languages in the education of its people as done by others since the renaissance. Other people dropped foreign Latin for their vernaculars since the 14th century. As I continued to research earlier efforts to validate my advocacy, I read about the experiment that Prof. Babs Fafunwa did from 1970 to 1978, with some students in now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. His experiment affirmed that students will do better when educated in the mother tongues,” he said.
The reviewer, Prof.Tayo Ogunlewe of the University of Lagos described the book as timely and significant towards the advocacy for mother tongue as a medium of instruction in education.
He said it is for a re-appraisal of the value and the need for better recognition and valuation of indigenous African knowledge systems. He said it will be most useful for mother-tongue or first language activists, indigenous knowledge systems advocates, linguists scholars, educational policy planners and the public.
Mother tongue aids students’performance, says expert
Education
Tinubu names Jim Ovia chairman of student loan fund
Tinubu names Jim Ovia chairman of student loan fund
President Bola Tinubu has appointed of a renowned banker and businessman, Mr Jim Ovia as chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND).
This was announced via a statement issued on Friday by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Ajuri Ngelale .
Mr Ovia is the founder of Zenith Bank and a respected business leader with a track record of benefaction towards nurturing and empowering young Nigerians.
He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School and holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Louisiana.
Part of the statement read, “The National Student Loan Programme is a pivotal intervention that seeks to guarantee sustainable higher education and functional skill development for all Nigerian students and youths.
“The Nigerian Education Loan Fund, the implementing institution of this innovation, demands excellence and Nigerians of the finest professional ilk to guide and manage.
“The President believes Mr Ovia will bring his immense wealth of experience and professional stature to this role to advance the all-important vision of ensuring that no Nigerian student suffers a capricious end to their pursuit of higher education over a lack of funds and of ensuring that Nigerian youths, irrespective of who they are, have access to higher education and skills that will make them productive members of society and core contributors to the knowledge-based global economy of this century.”
Education
WASSCE: Lagos govt to pay N1.5bn for 58,000 students
WASSCE: Lagos govt to pay N1.5bn for 58,000 students
The Commissioner for the Lagos State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Tolani Alli-Balogun, has said the state government will be paying N1.5bn to register 58,000 students for the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for this year.
The commissioner said this on Thursday while reporting the activities of the ministry in commemoration of the first year of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu in office for the second term of his administration.
Sanwo-Olu took the oath of office for his second term as governor on May 29, 2023, promising in his inaugural speech not to let down Lagosians.
The commissioner, who spoke at the state secretariat, said, “The administration of Babajide Sanwo-Olu has never defaulted on the payment of WASCCE fees of all public school SS3 students in the four years of Governor Sanwo-Olus’s first term in office. The state government paid over N4.2bn between 2020 and 2023 to keep our promise of full payment of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination fees.
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“In the current school year (2024), the governor has approved the sum of N1,571,076,000 as registration fees and other cost for 58,188 SS3 students writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination.”
Last year, the West African Examination Council, which conducts WASSCE, noted that it had concluded plans to begin computer-based examinations in 2024.
It released the results of the first-ever CBT exam, 2024–First Series, in March this year.
Education
Father arrested for helping son to sit UTME
Father arrested for helping son to sit UTME
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the arrest of a man and his son in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).
The man was accused of impersonating the son and helping him to sit the UTME.
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this while on inspection tour of the UTME centres in Kaduna on Wednesday.
He said the 2024 examinations were largely well conducted, except for few cases of impersonation, which became possible because some persons had multiple National Identity Numbers (NINs).
Oloyede warned against cheating in the exams, stressing that JAMB had improved its technology check on those engaging in all forms of examination malpractices.
The JAMB Registrar said, “For those who engage in cheating, they should know that it does not pay. The technology is helping us to check that.
“Across the country, most of the problem we have is impersonation. For instance now, we say we have NIN, we now have cases of people with two NINs.
Therefore, that has defeated the purpose of identity verification. We are going to take that up with NIMC, that there are people who have two NINs.
“We have a case of a father impersonating his son, sitting the examination for the son and I wonder. Are you not destroying your son’s future?
“Of course, two of them are now in custody. I can’t understand what the father will now tell his son when they are both locked up in the same cell. This happened definitely not in Kaduna, but I don’t want to disclose the state.”
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