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38 — Vanguard, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2020 Why we get population census wrong in Nigeria — Oshuntuyi By Adesina Wahab THE President, Mathematics for Life Foundation, Mr Omoniyi Oshuntuyi, has said Nigeria has been grappling with conducting credible population census because the exercise is not seen as a tool for national planning and development. By Glory Ojojo LAGOS State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said education is a vital tool for economic emancipation and therefore should be taken seriously by all stakeholders, including the government. He said this in Ikeja during the Formal Launch and Graduation Ceremony of the Eko Excel Teachers Professional Development and Training Programme. The Eko Excel is aimed at training, supporting and motivating public school teachers to succeed as highly skilled professionals in their calling. Governor Sanwo-Olu said, “This multi investment in teachers capacity building seeks to reposition public education, improve the method of teaching to make it standard of the 21st Century and restore confidence in public school system. “We are committed to enabling Lagos State teachers to be more professional and technologically sound in the delivery of their work. At the end of this initiative, over 14,000 public primary school teachers would have benefitted from the initiative and our belief is that this model will impact people positively all over our state. “The importance of this programme cannot be down played since well trained teachers will assist in the education and development of our future leaders and that we believe, will make them academically sound, financially Oshuntuyi stated this in Lagos during the Annual Mathematics Conference and Exhibition, AMCE, organised by the Foundation. The event had as theme “The Mathematics of census: Population, planning and national development.” According to him, mo realistic By Mary Obaebor HARD work, perseverance and commitment to study have been prescribed as prerequisites for outstanding academic performance. The Vice Chancellor of Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, stated this during the 2019/2020 matriculation ceremony of the institution, where 6,715 new students took the Oath of Allegiance. The VC said that TASUED and credible population census had been conducted because the government and people only see it as an exercise for election and political gains rather than foreconomic and social development.“Population census should be held every 10 years, but in Nigeria, the last one we had was over 14 years ago. Then how do •From left, Guest speaker, Evangelist F. F. Ago; chairman of the occassion, Barr. Akin Adepoju; and proprietress of Great Omega Schools, Deaconess Bisi Adepoju, during the end of year party of the school •Students of Great Omega Schools, Ibeshe Ikorodu Education is tool for economic emancipation— Sanwo-Olu literate and be committed to serve as role models with an enterprise spirit needed for a sustainable and competitive national economy.” He therefore encouraged the graduands to redouble their efforts in order to justify government’s investment in the educational sector. He urged the teachers to show genuine love and concern for their pupils and care for them like their own real children so that the 7-8 hours they would spend in class would be thier best time of the day. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, said that Eko Excel would lead to a turnaround of the sector for the better in the state. “The reason why we identified the educational technology as a central pillar is because it is a detailed and we plan for the future? Census figures are not just meant for deciding statutory allocations to tiers of government or states, but the data obtained for planning adequately for the future. “Some would say the cost of conducting a census is huge, but we know that with the deployment of modern technology, the cost can be drastically reduced. Our Foundation has always been taken topical issues for academic digestion by experts and we are focusing on census this year because of what lack of acxurate data and planning are costing us as a nation,” he said. On how to make teaching and learning of Mathematics enjoyable, Oshuntuyi noted that the first step was to have well trained and motivated teachers of By Mary Obaebor THE Chairman, Governing Board of National Board for Technical Education, NBTE, Prof. Modupe Adelabu, has showered encomium on Yaba College of Technology, Yabatech, for moving to third position from its former seventh position in the latest polytechnic webometric ranking in Ngeria. Adelabu praised the administration of Engr. Obafemi Omokungbe, who within a year transformed the College into a peaceful and rancor free environment with stable academic calendar. The former deputy governor of Ekiti State who was in the College to inspect ongoing Tetfund projects, noted that if the College continued to maintain its peaceful academic stability it would move from no third the subject to make the subject attractive to students. Contributing, Prof. Mrs Olabisi Ugbebor, Mr Niyi Okuboyejo and Mr Oluwatosin Ilesanmi, said population count was only a partof what could be derived from a population census. They added that allocatingresources based on census figures had led to the manipulation of th exercise. They noted that GIS, socialmedia and other things could beused in conducting population census that would produce credible figures at lower cost. The experts added that Nigeria would continue to experience stunted economic growth when basic information about the nation’s demography were lacking. Merit awards were given to outstanding individuals and corporate bodies during the conference. NBTE board boss commends Yabatech over improved ranking important part of the development agenda of the state. “Education cannot wait, now is the time, we are part of the global technological revolution. I want us to know that it has been carefully thought through and it is not just about technology but about transforming practice, engaging learners, and coming out with excellent result for every child.” VC counsels students as TASUED matriculates 6,715 CHIDINMA Umeh and Daniella Jumbo of Lora International School, Lagos have won this year’s Young Ministers Competition. The competition was organized to test the intelligence of Nigerian remained the most subscribed state university in the country with overwhelming number of applicants applying for limited admission space in the university before the lucky ones were admitted. Prof. Arigbabu, however, urged the new students to face their studies in order to attain great heights in their academics and compete favourably in the global market after graduation. He warned the matriculating students to shun all forms of Umeh, Jumbo win Young Ministers Competition students on how they know the country, as well as enlighten them on the functions, the organs and activities of government. It is also to teach them the histories of the country and guide the young ones who deviant behaviours, as the university had zero tolerance for all vices, coupled with stiff penalities for various offences. Prof. Arigbabu assured the students of maximum security, stable academic calendar and conducive learning environment, which he noted, had made the university tower higher than its contemporaries. The Vice Chancellor, thereafter, urged the new students to always contact the University Counselor when would become the leaders of the country in the future. Umeh took the overall first position under the Ministry of Finance and Jumbo took the overall second position under the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. position to being no one in no distant time. The NBTE Chairman opined that the College had produced personalities that were making waves both in Nigeria and abroad, especially in the accounting profession. She said this was possible due to the quality of staff in the College. Adelabu implored the College to invest more in skills development, up to the stage of exporting skills and not importing skills, likewise to invest more in technical education and in engineering, adding, “In fact, Yabatech should be the first point of call when looking for quality engineers.” Earlier in his welcome address, Omokungbe appreciated her for visiting the College to inspect Tetfund capital projects. He thanked Tetfund for its intervention in ongoing capital projects in the institution campuses at Yaba and Epe. Adelabu alongside Yabatech management team later inspected the construction of Comfort Station; classrooms, offices and highway laboratories, rehabilitation and refurbishment of Engineering Block, Construction of Lecture Theatre Building for School of Management and Business Studies SMBS, and construction of two-storey building for SMBS. necessary and to also avail themselves of maximum relaxation through sporting activities as well as engagement in religious activities. The Oath of Allegiance was, thereafter, administered by the University Acting Registrar, Mr. Tunde Oduwole. In the same vein, the National Alumni Association of the university has awarded a financial gift to the University Scholar who doubled as the Best Student in 100 level for 2018/2019 academic session, Miss Elibe Patricia Ogadinma, who has a Cumulative GPA of 4.88. The award was presented by the Alumni President, Mr. Abdullahi Oyekanmi. She is of the Department of Biology, in the College of Science and Information Technology of the university.
Vanguard, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2020 --- 39 By Shina Abubakar Osogbo A LECTURER in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Prof. Francis Egbokhare, has said universities are the last channel for value formation and pipeline for national development. He stated this in Osogbo during the Annual Retreat of the College of Humanities and Culture of the Osun State University, UNIOSUN. In his speech tagged, “Mentorship, Academic Collaboration and University Culture: A Global Perspective,” the don added that teamwork, freedom of learning, institutional autonomy, intellectual development, pursuit of truth, academic and moral integrity, leadership, service orientation, respect for one another and diversity were the core elements which determine an ideal academic culture. The professor of linguistics who described UNIOSUN as a unique institution, also emphasized the need for academic collaboration, mentoring practices, national ideology-driven research and curricula that emphasize interdisciplinary. He noted that belief in single modernity was a bane of educational development in the country and advocated for a system that would be open to diversity. His words: “This (belief in single modernity) mindset enforces a worldview and paradigm that is considered as truth but only applicable to originating cultural ideology. It ignores the fact that there are alternative paths to progress and divergent conceptual possibilities of what constitutes progress, development and modernity. “Alternative and authentic pathways have been crowded out and there is a failure to build our educational system on the basis of the potentials of our society. "The foregoing emphasizes the TESCOM boss lauds Fayemi over support for commission By Israel Ibekwe EKITI State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has been commended for his support for the state’s Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM. The Chairman of the Commission, Hon. Babatunde Abegunde, gave the commendation in his address during a meeting of the Commission in his office in Ado-Ekiti. The Chairman described TESCOM as a reservoir of knowledge where people come up with ideas on how to improve educational system in the state. He highlighted some of his achievements recorded since his assumption of office at the Commission to include; successful verification exercise for teaching and non-teaching staff of all schools in Ekiti to ascertain staff payroll, headcount, staff strength and infrastructure. •From left, Mr Ezeilo Everist, Bursar, Loral International School, Lagos, Mrs. Ada Nwauwa, Head Teacher, Daniella Jumbo, and Mr Christian Ndujihe, Class Teacher celebrating with Jumbo on her winning the Young Ministers Competition. Universities are pipelines for value formation, national development — Egbokhare fact that a critical appraisal of the nature of state, vision/ideology of state, national priorities and vision of humanity should be at the center of our approach to learning. “What we regard as knowledge, what we allocate to diverse aspects of knowledge enterprise cannot be determined externally on the conviction that the propositions By Naomi Uzor IN the spirit of giving back to the society, distinguished men and women will on Saturday assemble to give back to the school which nurtured the foundation of their success over three decades with a fund raiser of N2 billion. Disclosing this in a chat with Vanguard, Administrative Manager, Atlantic Hall School, Mrs Oluwadamilola Ogunwumiju, said the school would open its doors to all; homecoming for people eager to improve standards by raising funds estimated at two billion naira, adding that the targets were a N300 million Endowment Fund; a solar power scheme worth N200 million and N1.065 billion for a new Multi-Purpose Hall for the school. from the global centers of power are always right and true. “Global standards are not global at all and standards are not in fact standards but project narrow perspectives which are validated by researches localized and whose results are generalized as universal. Prescribed models for dealing with issues have to be tested locally. Atlantic Hall School @ 30: Set to raise N2 billion fund She said the school’s alumni would also embark on a five-year transformational agenda titled “Charting a new path; an agenda driven by the notion “what got us here won’t get us there”. “The Ambassadors of the Decade will also be unveiled at an anniversary gala where distinguished members of the alumni will be honored. “The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is expected to lead the pack of well wishers and prospective partners lined up by the school’s management for the grand finale of the 30th anniversary events. No fewer than 10 Ambassadors for the New Decade have been identified. These are described as flag bearers; men and women who have demonstrated exceptional skills and merit the honour." Standards and procedures can easily be seen as cultural template for thinking and narrowing down alternatives. The strident call for endogenous solutions to problems is a call for a culturally appropriate approach. There is in fact a clear recognition of the importance of culture in development agendas.'' Oyo to promote teachers according to students’ performance OYO State government has said public school teachers will henceforth be promoted and honoured according to their diligence and efficiency, as reflected in the overall performance of their students in external examinations. The stated by the Chairman, Oyo State Post-primary Schools Teaching Service Commission {TESCOM}, Pastor Akinade Alamu, at an interactive session he had with School Managers, Saki zone, Oke Ogun, that was held at main hall of Ansaru Deen High School, Saki. He hinted that a committee had been set up by Governor Seyi Makinde to have data and measurement of individual teacher across the state after which he would personally reward the most efficient among them. He also said that the promotion of teachers would no more be ‘business as usual’, as the administration had concluded plans to reward excellence, based on measures of efficient and productive input by teachers to make their students excel in external examinations. ‘’You can see that our government is a listening one, we are here today to have some feedback, tell us which area we need to improve as government and I can assure you that era of unpaid salary has gone forever as this administration will continue to make prompt payment of salary its priority. “In the last promotion that we did where over eight hundred (800) teachers got promoted, there were no report on the beneficiaries, everybody was just moved together at the same time, though we believe our teachers are noble, good and hard-working but we may have some bad eggs, who are lazy and might have scaled through without been qualified and the hard-working ones will be feeling cheated. According to the chairman, the interactive session would be held across the six zones in the state and was meant to maintain a good rapport between the Commission and its teachers. Earlier in her welcome address, Saki zonal head, Deaconess Aderonke Oladoyinbo appreciated the giant strides taken by the present government under the leadership of Governor Makinde towards improving the education sector. Unbundling of Mass Communication long over due — Experts Continues from page 28 unbundling for now is limited to the universities. The polytechnic sector is not carried along. Truth is, the polytechnic system is focused on hands on training. No deadline. For the polytechnics, Mass Communication should retain the current curriculum for National Diploma and possibly unbundle at the Higher National Diploma. The options cannot be as many as seven. Journalism and Media Studies, Broadcast, Public Relations, Digital Communication, Film and Cinematography as well as Mass Communication Technology (focusing on management of studios and laboratories). The polytechnics need not follow the unbundling as spelt out for the universities since they are more into the practical and hands on training. What advice do you have for prospective students? Mass Communication under any name retains its glory as the programme that focuses you on the search for the truth. It is dedicated to starry eyed youngsters who want to change the world. If your mission is to defend the ordinary man on whom indignity is heaped, embrace Mass Communication and you will not regret it. If you desire a course of study to keep you abreast of others in public affairs, embrace any aspect of Mass Comm and you will have no regrets. We are prepared —Jimoh The Head of Department, Journalism, in the School of Communication, Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, Dr. Jide Jimoh, said the university and the department are adequately prepared for the unbundling of the study of Mass Communication into seven departments as ordered by the National Universities Commission, NUC. He said: “In 2000-2001 session, when we started this department, it started with seven departments which would have had students graduating with B.Sc Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising, Broadcasting, etc, but the setback we had was that we didn’t have enough personnel to drive the vision we had about departmentalization of these courses.” Jimoh opined that the unbundling would be an advantage over previous policy “because Mass Communication is a very wide field and this, therefore, will make students masters in certain areas as they will have deep knowledge in the departments they choose to go and study.” While noting that students will still be taught basic knowledge in Mass Communication generally at the foundation level, he added: “For now, we cannot say when the new policy will kickstart in LASU but most likely, the set after the 2019/20 will be part of this new policy.” He explained that for the exercise to start in LASU, the department needs to get the NUC’s approval which has already been given, then engage the management of the university on allocation of resources. Dr Jimoh said students resuming for the 2019/20 academic session will not benefit from the new policy because they picked Mass Communication when they registered for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations and were offered admission for the same.
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