Many Lagos Private Schools “Not Complying With Standards” – Collect Huge School Fees & Pay Teachers “Peanuts” | Gov’t To Begin Visitations

The Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Education is to begin unannounced visitations to private schools in the state to monitor their standards.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) learnt that many of the private schools were not complying with standards and that they were always paying peanuts to teachers after collecting huge school fees from parents.

The Chairman of the committee, Lanre Ogunyemi, (APC-Ojo II), told NAN in an interview in Lagos on Sunday that the visitation was to compel the private school operators to comply with standards.

“Part of our oversight functions is to ensure that the ministry of education is doing what it ought to do in monitoring and inspection of these private schools.

“The ministry ought to work to the extent that it can assure the public that the quality of education these private schools are delivering is good enough.

“The private schools will soon be feeling the presence of the house committee on education.

“The committee is planning to ensure that private schools maintained high standards and qualitative staffing for the parents and children who patronised them.

“A situation where private schools engage school certificate holders to be teachers, paying paltry sum of maybe 8,000 or 20,000 will no longer be tolerated.

“The private schools too will also be feeling our presence in their domain any time from now,” he said.

The lawmaker said the committee had gone round the model colleges and public schools unannounced to ascertain the true situation of things.

Ogunyemi said the State Government was fixing its own schools to have courage to look into what obtained in private schools.

He said, however, that private schools were partners in progress with the State Government in the delivery of the quality education the state was aspiring to have.

On the qualification of teacher, the lawmaker said that the minimum teaching certificate in public and private schools in Lagos State should be the Nigerian Certificate in Education.

“School certificate for God’s sake is not a teaching qualification, at best they can be clerks, helping staff in those private schools.”

Ogunyemi said that if the state would not compromise standards in its public schools, private school operators should maintain high standards in staffing.

“You won’t see anybody below Nigerian Certificate in Education teaching in our public schools because the regulatory body that employs teachers won’t employ anybody with a certificate less than NCE.

“In private schools anything goes they want to have cheap staff and make more money.

“So, such private schools are bound to feel our reactions to all of these and we are looking at it seriously.”

President Muhammadu Buhari & His Wife Aisha Buhari Spent Sunday Afternoon With The Mother Of The Vice President Olubisi Osinbajo.

It is very clear that the President and the VP’s relationship is super cordial. Also present was the wife of the VP, Dolapo Osinbajo.

Zambian Woman Burns Her Sister And Husband After She Caught Them Having Sex

Pictured here is a man and his sister-in-law receiving treatment at a hospital in Zambia. According to Information Nigeria, his wife caught them in bed together having sex and set them on fire. See full photos

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Former Lagos Deputy Governor Rafiu Jafojo Dies At 80

Former Lagos State deputy governor, Chief Rafiu Bakare Jafojo, who governed with Lateef Jakande, between 1993-1998 during the Sani Abacha regime died yesterday April 23rd. He was 80. Chief Jafojo died after a brief illness. He will be buried today according to Islamic rites. May his soul rest in peace, amen.

UNIPORT Student Allegedly Shot Dead By Police Laid To Rest, Plus Her Mother's Heartbreaking Tribute.

A student of the University of Port Harcourt named Gina who was allegedly shot 5 times & killed by policemen during a protest by students of the institution earlier this month, has been laid to rest

The only child of her parents (father is deceased) Gina was laid to rest on Friday, April 22nd. Her cousin shared photos from the funeral along with a heart-wrenching note from her devastated mother on her Facebook page. See that after the cut

"Yesterday my beautiful daughter was put to rest.. The heaviness in my heart can't be eased, knowing that no one is taking responsibility of your death. The police killed you and never showed remorse for your death. Nigeria is as messed up as its leaders. May you rest in peace my angel. Your death has paint everything in my life into a different shades of remorse, I keep regretting sending you there, I feel guilty Gina..The sorrow I feel to lose you Gina is the price I have paid to have you in my life, your memories is all I have, which helped me survived the storms and struggles of our daily lives we shared together. I see it from henceforth as my job to mourn you until the day I die. I can't loose you, you are part of reason for everything in my life. Pls God how can I go through? Till we meet again. RIP Gina my doctor as I always called you. I will always love you my daughter"

I Still Stand On What I Said, Child Rapists Should Be Castrated- Florence Ita-Giwa

Senator Florence Ita-Giwa who was a special guest at a fund raising exhibition for Mirabel Centre, held at the British Council in Lagos last week, said that throwing child rapists into prison is not enough justice. The Senator who represented Cross River in the Senate said the best way is to cut off their genitals to ensure they do not use them again on other children. In reference to accounts shared by two rape survivors at the event, she said:


"The lady said she was happy that she got justice for her four-year-old daughter who was raped by two men but, in my mind, if I were a judge and a man is brought to court for raping a child, he will receive capital punishment. But I will say, 'don't kill him, rather llet him live his life in pain, let his organ be cut off'. He should not be allowed the pleasure of using that organ anymore. If the organ is not cut off, at the end of his term in prison, he will use it on other children. Fortunatel for them, I'm no longer in the Senate but I will find a way to get it into the chamber. This is the proper way to end the evil of rape in the society" she said. (Vanguard)

Yesterday, April 23, Mrs Ita-Giwa shared two photos with the reports on her private Instagram page, reiterating her stand on the issue.

"I still stand on what I said,Anyone who is capable of this Act,should be castrated. We need to start setting examples for a safer community, it might be your daughter next,Let's fight this menace together.  We have to take a stand on this. Say no to rape and let's do what we can to stop this menace in the society.  #FIG #SERVICETOHUMANITY #SAYNOTORAPE #PROTECTOURGIRLS #LETSPROTECTOURCHILDRENFROM" she wrote

No Strings Attached! Lola Omotayo wishes Jude Okoye a happy birthday

Peter Okoye's wife took to instagram this morning to wish her husband's brother,  the former P-Square manager a happy birthday. See his wife's birthday message below...