UNILAG 2016 NYSC Batch ‘A’ Mobilization List

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) 2016 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Batch ‘A’ Mobilization List is out. Concerned candidates are required to confirm their details from the list.
The Students’ Affairs Division has released the list of graduates/prospective corps members (PCM) for the 2016 National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Batch ‘A’ Mobilization Exercise.

All graduates of the 2014/2015 academic session are advised to confirm their inclusion and details on the list posted HERE ( http://unilag.edu.ng/Entry.pdf) and Notice Boards at the Students’ Affairs Division.
Please note that:
1.All complaints on the mobilization list should be made in writing to the Dean, Students’ Affairs Division on or before 10:00 am Friday 29th, January 2016.
2.Letters to the Director General of NYSC to Request for Remobilization and Concessional Posting on Medical and Marital Ground should also be addresses to the Dean, Students’ Affairs.
The names listed on UNILAG website are the result fowarded to and approved by Senate. Those whose names are not on the list will go with Batch ‘B’ coming up around April. However, all those whose results have been approved by Senate will be part of the forthcoming Convocation ceremony.

Al-Hikmah University Postpones Matriculation Date 2015/16

Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, matriculation ceremony has been postponed to new date – 2015/2016 academic session.
This is to inform all the fresh students of the Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin that the management of the institution has postponed the matriculation ceremony earlier scheduled for Friday, 29th January, 2016.
Al-Hikmah University matriculation ceremony new date is Friday, 12th February, 2016.
All inconveniences caused by this postponement are hereby regretted, please.

Declare Your Assets Now, NYSC Boss Tells Staff

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has ordered its personnel whose assets declaration dates are due to make such declaration immediately in line with the code of conduct for public officers.

Director-General of the scheme Brigadier General Johnson Olawumi gave the directive at the opening ceremony of its 2016 Annual Management Conference (AMC) taking place in Asaba, the Delta State capital.
He said the NYSC Management had been very consistent in the enforcement of periodic assets declaration by members of staff as well as ensuring strict adherence to policy guidelines in all aspects of the scheme’s operations.
Reviewing the activities of the scheme, Olawumi recalled with delight the participation of corps members in the successful conduct of the 2015 General Elections.
“I therefore wish to commend the political class, security agencies, and the electorate for their support to Corps members during the exercise. We assure all Nigerians that given such opportunity in the future, we will not disappoint the nation,”he added.
He also said the scheme, through its Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers (HIRD), launched a holistic medical outreach targeted at the rural poor nationwide last year.
The DG added that the programme would be sustained, and would especially be used in assisting the country to contain the spread of lassa fever.
Olawumi called on state governments as well as other  international and private organizations to support the HIRD achieve its objective of contributing to quality healthcare delivery to all nooks and crannies of the country.
He also urged stakeholders, especially corporate bodies and individual philantropists, to assist towards sustaining the NYSC Hope Alive Initiative which was introduced with the aim of providing succour to corps members who suffer permanent disability during the service year.
The DG told the gathering that the scheme had installed latest security chips that could track a distressed caller easily, and went on to advise corps members to always call the NYSC Distress Call Centre whenever the need arises.
He thanked all host communities and security agencies nationwide as well as other stakeholders, including the Delta State Government, for their support towards the welfare and safety of corps members.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Director of Planning, Research and Statistics, NYSC Directorate Headquarters Venerable Temitope Ajayi said the AMC would generate ideas and formulate new strategies with the aim of enhancing productivity and service delivery for effective management of the youth.

“The focus of this conference is, therefore, to brainstorm and come up with practicable solutions that will reposition and promote the ideals of the scheme in the face of the present challenges of the operating environment,”he added.

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'History, religious studies to be compulsory in secondary schools,' minister for education

History and religious subjects are to become compulsory in all public primary and secondary schools in Nigeria, the Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu has said.
 

History and religious studies are to become compulsory in all public primary and secondary schools in Nigeria, the Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu has said.

Adamu who disclosed the Federal Government plan at the closing ceremony of the National Qur'anic Recitation Competition held in Lafia, Nasarawa State, added that the curriculum was part of efforts towards improving the educational sector and moral values.

“The circular would soon be released regarding to the compulsory teaching of religious subjects and history in schools,” Adamu said.

Adamu added that the present government is committed towards improving the quality of education both in public and private schools in the country.

He urged parents, particularly those in rural areas, to encourage their wards to go to schools.

Goodluck Jonathan 'I did my best with education when I was in power' - Ex-president

"I began the practice of giving education the highest sectoral allocation beginning with my very first budget as President in 2011.”
 

Former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan as said that, to promote the development of Africa, there needs to be better security and education.

Speaking at the Geneva Press Club in Switzerland during a publicised world press conference on “Security, Education and Development in Africa”, he said, he did his best to promote education when he was in power.

He said, “If you peruse the official UNESCO literacy rates by country, what you will find is that all of the top 10 most literate nations in the world are at peace, while almost all of the top 10 least literate nations in the world are in a state of either outright war or general insecurity.

“Lower education levels are linked to poverty and poverty is one of the chief causative factors of crime whether it is terrorism or militancy or felonies.

“With this at the back of my mind, I began the practice of giving education the highest sectoral allocation beginning with my very first budget as President in 2011.”

Jonathan adds, “As I have always believed, if we do not spend billions educating our youths today, we will spend it fighting insecurity tomorrow. And you do not have to spend on education just because of insecurity. It is also the prudent thing to do.

“Nigeria, or any African nation for that matter, can never become wealthy by selling more minerals or raw materials such as oil. Our wealth as a nation is between the ears of our people.”

In Kaduna University lecturer suspended over hateful Facebook post

John Danfulani, in December, launched attack on the ruling All Progressives Congress,  APC, President MohammadU Buhari and uneducated children in the north.

Authorities at the Kaduna State University has suspended a senior lecturer over a hateful comment he made on his Facebook page, PremiumTimes reports.

The lecturer, John Danfulani, in December, launched attack on the ruling All Progressives Congress,  APC, President MohammadU Buhari and uneducated children in the north.

The Facebook comment partly read, " To them, APC is a religious party. Northern leaders under the party are demigods and crusaders of their ways of life. These people living in dusty villages of Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Kano, Jigawa are quick in calling you ‘Arne or Kafiri’ (Meaning Pagan) once you express your view on anything their God PMB and his brigade of small Angels are doing. Attack the attacker, and lets the skies fall.”

He subsequently deleted his Facebook page after receiving backlash when the post went Viral among Kaduna residents.

Mr Danfulani, who is currently out of the country, has been accused by the University of making a speech that can be termed “divisive, injurious and tantamount to hate speech”.

In a query dated January 6, signed by the school registrar, Talatu A Kuri, the university said the lecturer should explain why disciplinary action should not be taken against him for a comment he posted on the social media.

“The content of the publication you authored is divisive, injurious to the University and tantamount to hate speech capable of inciting particular group of students against staff and other students. This behaviour is unbecoming of a lecturer who is supposed to mould students’ character and impart learning,” the letter said.

In his response, Mr. John said he was not furnished with details of his offence.

“It is a large world of dozens of platforms, most of which are yet to be in full practice in Nigeria. I have pages that upload my opinions on multifaceted local and international issues when my conscience and spirit direct me to do so,” he wrote.

“Because of this, I do not know on which of the platforms the piece that generated this query was hoisted because your query did not contain such details.”

He added: “My wall, updates and writings in the social media are all in my private capacity and not in my official capacity as a Lecturer with the University”.

Not satisfied with his response, the school authority suspended him from the university.

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Olanrewaju Fagbohun LASU VC clear out old certificates “The present administration is working assiduously to restore the lost glory of the institution."

Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University, LASU, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun has said he will be clearing the backlog of certificates within the next four months, Vanguard reports.

Speaking on  Wednesday, Fagbohun assured that a task force will be created to resolve the issue of backlog of certificates at the university’s External System.

The VC said, “The task force will search for the profile of students, identify the problems and proffer a solution to them."

Some graduated students have lamented the fact that the institution is yet to issue their certificates. Some have allegedly been unable to get a job, sacked from a job, or skipped for promotion because they have not been able to tender proof that they graduated from LASU.

The VC has also said that peace has returned to the university, and that Nigerians need not panic for his aim objective is to take LASU back to the top.

“The present administration is working assiduously to restore the lost glory of the institution.

“LASU is an institution with staff and students full of potentials. It is an institution bubbling with students that have fantastic skills and ideas to be explored by the world,"the VC said.

NYSC to begin quarterly orientation courses (4 Batches)

Director General of the National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, Brig-Gen. Johnson Olawumi, yesterday, said that the scheme would soon conduct its orientation course for prospective corps members on a quarterly basis to accommodate the increasing number of graduates being turned out by accredited institutions for the scheme.

Olawumi, who disclosed this in Asaba, Delta State, during the opening ceremony of the 2016 annual management conference of the scheme, appealed to states that do not have permanent orientation camps to expedite action on same.

He noted that the provision of NYSC permanent orientation camp was a statutory responsibility of state governments and part of their contributions to human capital and youth development.

He said the theme of this year’s conference was selected to address some of the challenges confronting the scheme to enable it achieve the desired objectives of the founding fathers.

Identifying sudden increase in corps population with accompanying decrease in the budgetary allocation and rejection of corps members by employers as some of the major challenges that confront the scheme, he expressed appreciation to the Delta State Government for its consistent support for the scheme over the years.

Olawumi said the choice of Delta State to host this year’s conference was unanimously agreed upon by NYSC management to complement its unflinching support to the scheme.
He said, “While the scheme appreciates the consistent co-operation of corps employers over the years, it further appeals that rather than reject corps members who actually are on national assignment, a budgetary provision should be made for them at the beginning of every year by both public and private organisations in the country.

“Last year, the scheme through the NYSC Health Initiative for Rural Dwellers, HIRD, lunched a holistic medical outreach targeted at the rural poor. The programme which is designed to take the primary healthcare delivery in Nigeria to a higher level will be sustained in view of the recent outbreak of Lassa fever disease in 17 states of the federation because of the wide spread of corps members in the 774 local governments of the country.”

In his address, the Delta State governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, urged managers of the scheme to continue to “Let corps members know that the years ahead promise to be exciting but there is need to display necessary caution as current challenges in the country need to be addressed.”