PHOTO NEWS: Commissioning Of AUD Government Elementary School

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Photos from the just commissioned Ansar-Ul-Deen Government Elementary School. Isale Osun, Osogbo on Thursday 13th of March, 2014

Other pictures shows the area views equippements of just commissioned
Ansar-Ul-Deen Government Elementary School. Isale Osun, Osogbo on
Thursday 13th of March, 2014

Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola acknowledging cheers
from crowd on his arrival to Commission the completed Ansar-Ul-Deen
(AUD) Government Elementary School in Isale-Osun, Osogbo, State of
Osun on Thursday 13-03-2014

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Osun Restructuring Will Produce Competent Youths

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The ongoing restructuring of the education sector in the State of Osun has been described as a system aimed by the State Governor, Mr. Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola, to produce competent youths that will contribute meaningfully to the development of the state in no distant future and be able to compete favourably with their counterparts from every part of the world.

Deputy Governor and the Commissioner for Education in the State of Osun, Mrs. Grace Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, stated this in her keynote address to participants at a symposium organized by the Government of the State of Osun to address the state’s education programme tagged Symposium on Osun Education Policy in Perspective: Issues, Challenges and Imperatives.

Describing education as not just an ordinary tool meant for knowledge acquisition, but a machinery which will assist in the development of a complete man and help him to contribute meaningfully to his society, Mrs. Laoye-Tomori said the symposium is in tandem with the open door policy of the present administration in the State of Osun which focuses on serving people of the state better.

According to her, the present administration inherited a moribund school system on its assumption of office in November 2010 with virtually nothing on ground to aid teaching and learning in the state’s public primary and secondary schools, teachers’ morale being at its lowest ebb, poor performance of students at both the internal and external examinations culminating in having only three percent of secondary school graduates qualified for admission into tertiary institutions.

Mrs. Laoye-Tomori said the number of elementary school pupils which totalled 155,318 at the introduction of the school feeding programme of the present administration, OMEALS, on April 30, 2012 has since risen to 252,793 as at December 2013.

She said 14.41 billion naira has been committed into the construction of 39 elementary schools, 14 middle schools and 12 high schools across the state, 1.6 billion naira expended on renovation of dilapidated and reconstructed schools together with a sum of 2.5 billion naira spent on the purchase of school furniture.

Mrs. Laoye-Tomori said in an attempt to create a unified identity for elementary, middle and high school pupils in the state and to entrench virtues of Omoluabi among them, the state government freely gave 750,000 school uniforms to them, provided teaching aids in schools with 503 million naira and released a total sum of 856 million naira as running and examination grants to schools adding that Opon Imo (Tablet of Knowledge) has been freely given to 28,000 out of 32,000 pupils.

Speaking on the reduction of school fees in the state owned tertiary institutions, the state Deputy Governor said UNIOSUN fee was reduced from 198,000 naira to 100,000 naira, that of the state’s Polytechnic reduced from 42,000 naira to 25,000 naira while that of the state’s Colleges of Education was reduced from 28,000 naira to 20,000 naira.

In his lecture, Dr. Ayoade Owoade, said the state government’s aim is to give the best to people of the state through the series of its programmes most importantly in the education sector saying the administration of Mr. Rauf Aregbesola is fully focussed on improving on their plights.

He said the administration will stop at nothing to better their lots adding that the administration is God sent to realign their lives. Participants at the symposium were drawn from different media houses across the country.
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Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has said leadership is empty without vision, adding that vision without action will not lead to development.
The governor spoke yesterday in Osogbo at the opening of another state-of-the-art elementary school in Isale-Osun.
Residents gathered at the 1,000 pupils-capacity AUD Elementary School to catch a glimpse of its 28 classrooms, hall, sickbay, staff room, grassed courtyard, basketball court and recreational area containing swings and toys.
Aregbesola said his administration’s policies and programmes are “deeply steeped in vision, well-oiled by passion and firmly backed by action”.
He said as far as education in Osun is concerned, the government is on a mission to develop the greatest asset in nature and the human mind.
The governor said: “When I assumed office as governor, I had a vision of what the future of education in Osun public school should be like. It is a vision that sees our public sector education on a comparable level with what obtains in the most educationally advanced parts of the world.
“It is towards the realisation of this vision that the energy and attention of my administration have been resolutely focused. It is a vision that we intend to see through without minding the obstacles in our path.
“This education mission is solely driven by public interest, without preference for any private interest, be it religious or otherwise. As I said during the last elementary school inauguration in Ile-Ife, the goal of our education policy is to bring about human advancement and progress, which are desires that are common to all members of the human family.”
Aregbesola said the overriding purpose of the state’s education policy is to give children what it takes to be masters of their environment, urging critics of the policy to change their mindset.
He said: “In the building of more schools, we will keep on confronting them with the evidence of their futility, and with the accompanying message that they cannot alter our focus, neither can they derail our mission.
“For this is one mission we regard as our sacred duty towards our children and those unborn, and we will not fail them. And if only for their sake, we will stick with what we are doing until our mission is accomplished.”
The Deputy Governor, Mrs. Titilayo Laoye-Tomori, who is also the Commissioner for Education, said school reforms have confirmed to the people that the administration is determined to salvage the “battered” education sector.
She said the improvement in the results of pupils in public examinations showed that the reforms are yielding fruits.
Mrs. Laoye-Tomori said: “Today, we are witnessing the fulfillment of one of the governor’s electioneering promises. Since the commencement of the school reforms, we have built 1,724 classrooms in 39 schools across the state and the job continues. This administration is determined to create a level playing field in the education of children in Osun.”
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Osun State Governor, Rauf Aregbesola, on Thursday announced that Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Osogbo, will be moved to a new location. He said this at the inauguration of the AUD Elementary School, Osogbo, which was built by the administration.
The FCHS was one of the foremost secondary schools in Osun State but pupils of the school were merged with other public schools. There have been criticisms against the demolition of structures inside the school, which was founded by a Christian cleric. Some of those opposed to the demolition alleged that the governor had sold the land on which the school was built to his associate to build a shopping complex.
He said, “We are moving Fakunle High School to another place. We are moving Fakunle to the Unity High School in front of Osogbo Stadium. “We have nothing against the Fakunle family, you will now see that those who have been saying that Aregbesola is against Fakunle have been peddling lies. We will use the old site of the Fakunle High School for another thing.” He said that the FCHS was moved because the environment around the area, which had almost become a motor park, was no longer conducive for learning.
Aregbesola advised those he called the detractors of his education policy to change, saying his administration would not rescind the policy. He said, “In building more schools, we will keep on confronting them with the evidence of their futility; and with the accompanying message that they cannot alter our focus, neither can they derail our mission.
“For this is one mission we regard as our sacred duty towards our children and their own children yet unborn. And we will not fail them. And if only for their sake, we will stick with what we are doing until our mission is accomplished.
“It is towards the realisation of this vision that the energy and attention of my government have been resolutely focused. It is a vision that we intend to see through without minding the obstacles in our path.”
The Deputy Governor, Mrs. Titi Laoye-Tomori, said the new education policy introduced by the administration had started yielding positive results. The deputy governor who is also the Commissioner for Education said the brilliant performance of Osun students in public examinations had confirmed that the reform had started impacting positively on the students. She said the spate of works done on the school reform in the state had confirmed to the people that the administration was focused on it’s mission to salvage education.
The deputy governor stated that the decadence which the administration inherited in the education sector was unthinkable. She said, “ The various reforms are already yielding fruits as indicated in the drastic improvement in the results of public examinations where pupils from the state now take part in.
“Today, we are witnessing the fulfilment of one of the promises of the governor before he came in. Since the commencement of the reforms programme of this administration, we have built 1,724 classrooms in 39 schools throughout the state. And the job continues.”
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The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Lead City University, Ibadan, Prof. Ayo Olukotun, has urged journalists to stay away from propaganda, exaggerations and falsehood, which could mislead the public.

As elections draw near, he urged them to be balanced in their reports and not allow themselves to be used by politicians.
Olukotun spoke yesterday in Osogbo at a symposium, tagged: “Osun education policy in perspective: Issues, challenges and imperatives”, organised by the Osun Movement for Peace (OMP), a non-governmental organisation.
Speaking on “Media social responsibility and the non partisan communication of government policies (with reference to the Osun State educational policy)”, he said journalists need to be wary of politicians, who might want to use them to cause disaffection. Olukotun said: “Newspapers and the electronic media are free to take positions; what is crucial is that in doing so, they should be scrupulously fair and ensure that whatever position they take is based on verifiable facts.”
Osun State Deputy Governor Mrs Titilayo Laoye-Tomori said the aim of the education policy was to make pupils useful to the society.
Mrs. Laoye-Tomori, who is the commissioner for Education, said the policy had been yielding fruits, adding that the West African Examination Council’s (WAEC’s) record showed that 43 per cent of pupils were “matriculable”, as against the three per cent recorded before the Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration.
She said the policy arrested the rot in the sector, adding: “Before the inception of our administration, the education sector was left to suffer. There was no infrastructure in public schools; teachers’ morale was at its lowest ebb; pupils were not only running away from schools, they were also disinterested in education. The statistics tells it all.”
Special Adviser to the Governor on Lands, Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr. Isiaka Owoade said: “The new education policy was designed to be functional by deploying it to meet societal needs.”
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Governor State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola (middle); his Ekiti and Ogun States counterparts , Dr. Kayode Fayemi (left) and, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, at Awolowo House, Osun Lodge Abuja, after a meeting yesterday

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Osun State government has hinted its desire to make the state self-dependent in revenue generation.
The Acting Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the State Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Dayo Oyebanji, disclosed this while receiving Fidelity Bank team in charge of training in his office.
Oyebanji noted that the feat will be achieved even without increase in tax levies on any tax payer.
According to him, “without increasing tax levies whatsoever on any tax payer, the state of Osun Governor Rauf Aregbesola is now on the pathway to making the state self-dependent as far as revenue generation in the state is concerned.
“Part of the modalities employed to make a wholesome achievement in revenue generation is the engagement of staff, on tax related skill acquisition.”
Meanwhile, the days programme was set to engage Osun Internal Revenue Service (OIRS) Tax Station Managers, day training on more skill acquisition that would prepare them towards realizing increment in internally generated revenue in the state.
Therefore, the step taken on staff training, according to him, was borne out of dear need, to keep them abreast of the contemporary issues that are going on in the domain of revenue generation through the use of Point of Sale Terminal (POS).
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CONTINUOUS VOTERS’ REGISTRATION: MASSIVE TURN OUT IN OSUN, AS SHORTAGE OF REGISTRATION MACHINES, OTHER MATERIALS MARRED EXERCISE

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) flagged off state of Osun voters’ registration exercise on Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

The registration exercise scheduled to hold between Wednesday March 12, to Monday 19 2014 would give people who did not partake in 2011 voters registration another opportunity to do so and thereby make them eligible to exercise their civic right in the upcoming elections.

The potential electorates thereby vowed to do everything possible to resist any form of rigging in the August 9 gubernatorial election and reject any form of violence in the state.

Some of the polling units visited by Bioreports indicated that the exercise experience massive turn out as majority of the people were seen queuing eagerly to register their names.

Some places visited by our correspondence, revealed that Osogbo, Iwo, Ilesa, Ile-Ife, Modakeke, Ikirun and Ila witnessed massive turn out, while other towns and villages recorded low turnout by intending electorates.

The communities and villages that their turn out were not encouraging were, Ota-Ayegbaju, Eripa, Ada, Garage-Olode and Obaagun.

Bioreports learnt that, in Eripa, Boluwaduro Local Government there was a uproar at the Eripa CSDP Civic Centre where the registration exercise was ongoing as majority of people brought by PDP’s agent who wanted to register were said to have not qualified for the registration due to their age status.

One of the representatives of the All Progress Change (APC) who discovered the incident immediately raised alarm, the development later degenerated to a free for all and it took the intervention of policemen to calm the situation.

It was later gathered at the poling unit that, the said under aged people were imported to the poling unit by the People Democratic Party (PDP) in the community.

In Ikire, Irewole Local Government Area of the State, the registration exercise went smoothly, and in ward 3, 9, 10 there was a low turn out while security problem was recorded in ward 4 which according to a source was later resolved.

At ward 9, Mokore area of Atakunmosa Local Government Bioreports gathered that there was a violent attack on the members of the APC by the suspected thugs of the opposition party. While machines being used at the ward 8 St Francis and Ward 9 all in Modakeke were said to be faulty which delayed the registration exercise in the areas.

A cross section of People who spoke with Bioreports in one of the unit located at Salvation Army Middle School, Osogbo where hundreds of the people gathered to register their name expressed their discontentment over the insufficient machines brought to the area.

They lamented that hundreds of poling units were reduced to one ward with only one machine serving all these units in the area and it has made it difficult for them to do their registration on time.

They also alleged INEC of incapability to handle the exercise while some said that INEC uses the technique to disfranchise the people from selecting their preferred candidate in August governorship election in the state.

Reacting to this development, Idowu Ayorinde a staff of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, said nothing would stop them from resisting any form of rigging in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state of Osun.

Ayorinde who out of frustration by the delay of INEC officials at the poling unit accused INEC of using delay tactics to deny majority of people at the unit from registering.

Ayorinde therefore urged the INEC and Security Agencies, especially the Nigerian Police, to get their acts together and ensure free, fair and credible election in Osun, adding that the people of Osun would not allow the peaceful atmosphere being enjoyed in the state since the inception of present administration to be terminated by some unscrupulous politicians who have nothing good to offer the people of the state.

Responding in same tune, Mrs Abike Olagbaju, who gave thanks to God for giving her opportunity to be part of the people to register for their voters card said she has been looking forward to appreciate the incumbent governor for his unprecedented achievements and the immeasurable developments his administration has brought to the state, saying the ongoing voters registration would definitely give her chance to ensure his continuity through her vote and others who have the same mind.

Olagbaju therefore expressed their readiness to defend their votes, warning that those planning to rig or use federal might should not import the Anambra style into Osun as doing such would be met with stiff resistance.\

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Aregbesola Tackles States, LGs Over Poverty, Insecurity

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The governor of the state of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Wednesday took a hard look at the state of the nation and challenged some states and local governments in the country on their duties.
While presenting a paper at the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related offences Commission (ICPC), Good Governance Forum in Abuja, on Tuesday, Aregbesola maintained that the lackadaisical attitude of the tiers of government fuelled unemployment, poverty and insecurity in the country
The paper was titled: ‘Good Governance, Accountability and Transformation’.
Aregbesola challenged governments at all levels to develop the capacity of the people to work, stressing: “Getting our productive age group from age 18-35 working for 10 years, that will liberate the country from poverty.”
He further challenged Nigerians to jealously protect and guide democracy, as it is the only form of government that can guarantee good governance.
According to him: “Many of our governments at all levels lack imagination and zeal. We all wait for the monthly federal allocation, which in most cases, is barely sufficient to pay salaries.
“Also, because the federal allocation is more of an unearned rent, it is spent as freebies and this is one of the impetuses of corruption.
“Every state including the Federal Government, should strive for financial autonomy and self sufficiency.
“The federal allocation should not be used for paying salaries and running government. It should be tied to specific development projects.
“Governance is not a mystery. There is science and art to it and it can be mastered and we should begin to demystify it by reducing the notion that we can only have good and qualitative governance in the next millennium.
“We can have it now and we should demand for it. We have heard of the success of the Asian Tigers and the newly industrialised countries of South America.
“We don’t have to reinvent the wheel. There is never a time when there will be no excuse for failure. The good thing about democracy is that it periodically provides opportunity for us to kick out a government that offers all the time and blames others for its failure”.
Speaking earlier, ICPC Chairman, Ekpo Nta, disclosed that studies have have shown that there is a strong correlationship between high public sector corruption and pervasive poverty with attendance consequences if not properly addressed.
He noted: “We are interested in strengthening anti corruption processes in public institutions so that they can withstand and repel corrupt individuals.”
The ICPC good governance forum is a non political initiative aimed at promoting good governance. This is the first ICPC governance forum in 2014.
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Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has distributed cheques totalling N5.2 million to two hundred women in oil palm business in Ife South Local Government, through the state’s Quick Impact Intervention Programme (QIIP).
Aregbesola who was represented by the Commissioner for Commerce, Cooperative, Industries and Empowerment, Mr. Ismaila Jayeoba-Alagbada, gave the cheques to twenty cooperative groups at the Civic Centre, Ifetedo in Ife South Local Government.
The governor, who reiterated the commitment of his administration to fulfilling the six Integral Action Plan of his administration, said his administration remembers those in rural areas and will continue to empower them through soft loans to improve their economy. He stressed that this is to allow women to freely cater for their needs themselves and their children from the profits made from their oil palm business.
The governor therefore advised them to utilise the money for the business it is meant for. He also reminded the women of the need for them to partake in the political process as part of means of enhancing their power to choose those who govern them, just as he advised them to collect their permanent voters’ cards.
Earlier in his goodwill message, the State of Osun House of Assembly member representing Ife South, Hon Folorunsho Bamisayemi, thanked the governor for fulfilling his electioneering campaign to the people of the state. He therefore urged the beneficiaries to utilise the opportunity wisely.
Also speaking, Commissioner for Home Affairs, Tourism and Culture, Mr. Sikiru Adetona Ayedun, recounted that the last administration in the state was biased in distributing such benefits. He then thanked Aregbesola for not bringing sentiment in distribution of dividend of democracy in the state. He therefore advised the people to massively reciprocate the gesture in the next election in the state.
Earlier, Senior Special Assistant to the governor on Quick Impact Intervention Programme (QIIP), Mr. Dele Ogundipe, in his welcome address said for the first time, government is assisting 200 women in twenty Cooperative Societies with ten members in each group. He said this is a pilot programme for women in palm-oil processing commencing from Ife South Local Government of the state.
Ogundipe stressed further that the empowerment is targeted at the weakest and most exploited link in the palm-oil production value chain.
He explained that QIIP has organised pre-disbursement capacity development sensitisation for women to develop their capacity in record keeping, cooperative formation and strengthening, production process equipment and profit improvement techniques. He said they had also been brought to the former banking mainstream as they have all opened savings accounts with Bank of Agriculture (BoA) in Ifetedo.
He therefore thanked BoA for partnering state in empowering women at rural areas. He also promised that all women who have not benefited from this opportunity would have theirs in the second phase of the programme.
In his vote of thanks, National President of Ifetedo Progressive Union, Prince Bisi Adesigbin, thanked the government for the good gesture and advised the beneficiaries to make good use of the loan on their palm-oil business.
In their separate reactions, the beneficiaries who were visibly happy with Aregbesola’s gesture, sang praises to God for giving the state such a caring and hardworking governor who remembered women at grassroots level.
The President Oke-Ere Palm-oil Cooperative Society, Mrs. Idowu Olufemi, and that of Oredegbe Palm-oil Cooperative, Mrs. Esther Oluwasegun, who spoke on behalf of others, thanked the governor for given them such rare benefits and promised to make good use of the money on their palm-oil business.
Highlight of the programme was the presentation of cheques and visitation to the oil palm processing centre at Yekemi village among others.
Present at the event were SSA to the governor, Hon Remi Kolajo; Executive Secretary Ife South Local Government, Hon Timothy Fayemi; Permanent Secretary Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Mr. Odediran Sunday; Directors in the Ministry, representatives of Bank of Agriculture, APC leader in Ife South Local Government, Elder Ologbenla, APC women leader and hundreds of women in Ife South Local Government.
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