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Tinubu tackling out-of-school children menace, says presidential aide
Tinubu tackling out-of-school children menace, says presidential aide
The senior special assistant on student engagements to the president, Sunday Asefon, has assured that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is determined to address the spiraling out-of-school children menace in the country.
Asefon said that President Tinubu views the country’s education sector as a priority hence the need for the necessary steps being taken to ridding Nigeria’s tertiary institution of its inherent challenges.
Asefon gave the assurance on Monday, in Ado Ekiti, at the commencement of a two-day leadership training organised by his office for students’ union leaders in the southwest region, with the theme: ‘Building Responsible Leaders for National Development’.
Asefon asserted that the training was aimed at imbuing the students’ leaders with the right skills to manage frictions they have with the school management for steady, unhindered and progressive school calendars to be attainable.
The Presidential aide added that Tinubu as a student and youth-friendly leader, was determined to hand over power to the youthful generation, saying there was a need for such future leaders to be trained in leadership skills for the nation to have a prosperous and blossoming future.
He said Tinubu remains the most committed leader in Nigerian history in terms of investments in the education system, describing the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) codenamed Students’ Loan as a game changer that will obliterate school dropouts on account of financial incapacitation.
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“President Tinubu promised that he would stop the cases of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) frequent strikes, and he started achieving this by paying their nine months withheld salaries and by getting them off the IPPIS payroll. That had helped in settling their grievances.
“The tenures of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo, Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari were riddled with ASUU strikes. There wasn’t any year when all the unions in the university didn’t go on strike. But President Tinubu has spent one year and three months in office, and no case of national strike has been recorded.
“The NELFUND looked impossible in the beginning, but students from poor backgrounds now have access to the funds in our federal and state tertiary institutions. Let me assure you that the increasing rate of out-of-school children and unrest on our campuses will be eliminated under the present government”, he added
In his submission, the Commissioner for Youth Development in Ekiti State, Mr. Gold Adedayo, described investment in education as the most potent weapon to rid the nation of poverty and criminalities, boasting that Tinubu’s leadership has not failed in this regard.
A former students’ Union Leader at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Mr. Oluwole Moneyin, said dialogue remains the best instrument to be deployed to settle differences on campuses by students, saying there must be a paradigm shift now that the military regime has ceased to exist in Nigeria.
Tinubu tackling out-of-school children menace, says presidential aide
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Edo Gov Okpebholo freezes govt accounts, reverses ministry’s name
Edo Gov Okpebholo freezes govt accounts, reverses ministry’s name
Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has directed the immediate freezing of all state-owned bank accounts.
In a statement issued on Thursday by his Chief Press Secretary, Fred Itua, the governor stated that the accounts would remain frozen until further notice.
He instructed commercial banks, ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) to comply with the order immediately or face severe consequences.
The statement reads: “All state bank accounts with commercial banks have been frozen. Commercial banks must comply with this order and ensure that not a single naira is withdrawn from government coffers until further notice.
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“Heads of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies must ensure full compliance without delay.
“Following necessary investigations and reconciliations, the governor will take appropriate action and decide on the way forward. For now, this order remains in effect.”
Okpebholo also directed relevant agencies to revert the name of the Ministry of Roads and Bridges to its previous title, the Ministry of Works, a change made during the Godwin Obaseki administration.
“It is odd to name a government institution the Ministry of Roads and Bridges, especially when not a single bridge was built by the previous administration — not even a pedestrian bridge.
“In the coming days, we will examine further actions taken by the previous administration and make decisions that serve the best interests of the state,” the statement added.
Edo Gov Okpebholo freezes govt accounts, reverses ministry’s name
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Israel-Palestinian conflict: Two-state solution is a deception, says Gumi
Israel-Palestinian conflict: Two-state solution is a deception, says Gumi
Prominent Islamic scholar Dr. Ahmad Mahmud Gumi has criticized the widely discussed two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict, calling it a “deception.”
His remarks followed a recent summit of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Riyadh, where President Bola Tinubu and other leaders condemned Israel’s actions in Gaza and urged an end to hostilities.
In an interview with Daily Trust at his Kaduna residence, Gumi argued, “This Two-State Solution is a deception. No Israeli will allow a Palestinian to survive, and Palestinians will never allow Israel to survive.
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The only solution is to dissolve the two states and create a democratically electable region.”
Gumi commended the OIC’s support for Palestine, noting that Muslims and Arabs worldwide increasingly see the treatment of Palestinians as “genocide” and accuse Israel of human rights abuses.
He also called for a return to the pre-1948 structure, where Palestinians, Jews, and Christians lived together, suggesting a single, inclusive state that allows peaceful coexistence.
“When I hear people talking about Two-State Solutions, I know they are just deceiving themselves,” Gumi added, advocating for a unified region where people of all faiths can live together, similar to the multi-faith coexistence seen in countries like the United States.
Israel-Palestinian conflict: Two-state solution is a deception, says Gumi
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Court sacks Ondo LP candidate, two days to governorship poll
Court sacks Ondo LP candidate, two days to governorship poll
The Labour Party candidature of Olusola Ebiseni for the upcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo State has been nullified.
The nullification follows the sacking of Ebiseni by the Court of Appeal, sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday.
The governorship election of the southwest State will hold on Saturday, 16 November 2024.
The judgement disqualifying Ebiseni was unanimously delivered by the three members of the panel and read out by the chairman of the panel, Justice Adebukola Banjoko.
The judgment granted the prayer of the Labour Party who preferred the case against Ebiseni.
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Justice Banjoko held that, “the appeal marked CA/ABJ/CV/1172/2024 brought by the Labour Party against Chief Olusola Ebiseni and two others is allowed.”
Justice Banjoko further stated that the Certified True Copy of the judgment would be provided to the parties involved in the appeal as soon as possible for their review.
Recall that Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court in Abuja had ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to accept and recognize Olusola Ebiseni and Ezekiel Awude as the Labour Party’s governorship and deputy governorship candidates for the November 16 Ondo State governorship elections.
Justice Nwite confirmed that the second primary election conducted by the Labour Party, which resulted in Ebiseni and Awude being selected as candidates, was valid and should be upheld by INEC.
However, the appellate court has now overturned the judgment of the trial court’s judgment.
Court sacks Ondo LP candidate, two days to governorship poll
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