The entrance examination into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) for 68th Regular Course is scheduled to hold at designated centres nationwide on Saturday, 23rd April, 2016.
 
 

 
 
A statement from the office of the Secretary to the State Government of Osun explained that only candidates who made the National JAMB cut-off mark will be eligible to sit for the examination.
According to the release, the designated centres for the examination within the South Western state are: Command Children’s School  and Command Day Secondary School, Ikeja Cantonment, Lagos as well as Navy Secondary, Ojo Town, Lagos.
The examination is also scheduled to take place at Army Comprehensive High School, Akure and Command Day Secondary School, Odogbon, Ibadan.
Among other things, the statement instruct candidates to come along with their writing materials, HB pencils and eraser, warning that any candidate caught with a mobile phone will be automatically disqualified.
The release further advised the candidates to return to NDA portals and log in with their e-mail address and password to download their Examination Admission Card.

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has set up a nine-man committee headed by the acting Vice-Chancellor of Bola Ige University, Prof. Jelil Oguntola, to find solutions to the state’s public schools’ poor showing in national examinations.
 

 
 
Aregbesola, in a statement by his spokesman, Semiu Okanlawon, on Sunday, said the committee would also verify   the implementation of the reforms initiated by his administration in the four state-owned tertiary institutions.
The state owns polytechnics at Iree and Esa Oke as well as colleges of education in Ilesa and Ila Orangun.
Aregbesola said, “It is the desire of the government to put a stop to secondary school pupils’ yearly poor performances in external examinations. Time is ripe for something to be done urgently to ensure that the performances of pupils reflect the heavy investment in education by the government.
“The realisation of the poor performance of our pupils over a decade compelled us to ask the tertiary institutions to offer remedial courses for more of our students to be ‘matriculable’.
“The committee is therefore to verify the progress on the implementation of all the reforms we have initiated in the four institutions in focus.”
The governor also directed the committee to carry out staff verification in the four institutions to be sure that the available resources to the schools were being judiciously used.
He also directed the committee, which has two weeks to complete its work, to review the institutions’ curriculums.
He added that his administration wanted to be sure that the institutions were properly set up for the kind of education the Nigerian society needed for growth.
Oguntola said the students, their parents and guardians should be encouraged to stop cheating in examinations.
He said, “This committee will do all in its capacity to make sure government policies and projects are better implemented.
“On the need to give vocational training, we will ensure that the institutions train people to be self-reliant in basic skills they need to function in the society. If this can’t be done, it means we have failed as institutions.”

Admission forms into the State College of Health Technology, Ilesha, 2016/2017 session is available for sale at the
rate of N7,500 only.
 

 
 
This is contained in a press release signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Dr. Akinyinka Oluseyi Esho.
The statement stressed that interested applicants must possess five O’ Level credits in relevant subjects not more than two sittings in WAEC or NECO.
Dr. Esho therefore urged applicants to obtain the Admission Forms either from the State Ministry of Health, Abere or College of Health Technology, Ilesha

Senator Isiaka Adeleke has described the creation of an additional Local Government for Edeland from the existing Ede-South Local Government Area as a welcome development, coming has it were, as an avenue for accelerated development of the units comprising the new Ede-East Local Government Area.
 

 
 
This was contained in a press release issued by his Media Adviser, Alhaj Olumide Lawal.
Adeleke, while thanking Aregbesola for this magnanimous show of love for Ede people, called the attention of the government to the need to give the present Ede-North Local Government Area, an additional full-fledged local government area, instead of an administrative area office, created for it presently.
Ede-North Local Government Area, Adeleke stated, has more than 125 polling units, “a situation that qualifies it to be so split into two.”
Adeleke also thanked the speaker, Osun State House of Assembly, Najeem Salam for doing the needful, by immediately rectifying the anomalies that arose from the erroneous “ceeding” of some parts of Ede-North Local Government Area to Osogbo-South Local Government. The action of the speaker, was seen by Adeleke, as “that of a leader with listening ears, when Ede people robustly complained to him over the anomalies.”
The Senator said: “The issuance of a white paper by the government, within 24 hours to correct the stated anomalies has gone a long way to assuage the pains of Ede people over the matter.”
Senator Adeleke also thanked His Royal Majesty, The Timi of Edeland, Oba Munirudeen Adesola Lawal, Laminisa I, the Timi-in-council and indeed, the entire indigenes of Ede at home and in diaspora, for maintaining absolute peace, calm and restraint, at the face of extreme provocation, associated with the exercise as it concerned the alleged but already rectified issue of part of Ede-North Local Government Area being ceded to Osogbo-South Local Government Area.
He enjoined the good people of Edeland, to continue to be pace setters, as far as civility and absolute decorum are concerned in addressing issues that might agitate their minds from time to time.
The Asiwaju of Edeland, also thanked Aregbesola, for naming of Ejigbo Campus of Bola Ige University after him. This he said, is a great honour that he would cherish for the rest of his life.
He promised, to continue to do all within his power to give full support to the upliftment of Osun State and her people, by joining hands with all stakeholders to foster peace, love and unity amongst the various groups of people that constitute the state.

The Government of the State of Osun in collaboration with the Secretary General of the Muslim World League is today (Monday) afternoon organising a symposium with the theme:  “WORLD TERRORISM AND CRIMINALITIES: ISLAM VIEW POINT”.
 
 

 
Venue is Aurora Event Centre, OSOGBO.
This is contained in a press statement issued by the Secretary of the State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare  Board, Mr Sukiru Alao.
The release also disclosed that Sheik Abdul Rosheed Adiatullah, the Deputy President , Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria and Professor Abdul-Ganniy Oladosu of University of Ilorin will deliver lectures, among others.
The release enjoined the general public especially Muslim Umah to be in attendance and be seated by 2.00 0’clock in the afternoon.

The Government of Osun on Friday said it cannot act outside the outcome of a forensic audit of the staff of the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital Osogbo which has identified cases of irregularities in the recruitment of some staff.
 
 

 
The Government’s statement came in response to a rally embarked upon by some staff of the Teaching Hospital on Wednesday who claimed that government had concluded plans to disengage them.
Signed by the Director, Bureau of Communication and Strategy, Office of the Governor, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, the statement revealed that it was in the cause of the forensice staff audit that the government discovered various illegal recruitments of staff in excess of over 600.
The audit panel, according to the statement, set up in 2015, revealed that about 678 staffers were illegally employed without government approval.
Besides, some of these staffers were just administrative officers not urgently needed for the growth of the hospital.
Government said that available statistics also showed that some of the administrative officers in question with Bachelors Degrees and Higher National Diploma holders were recruited as security and Ward Assistants on Grade Level 02 only to be promoted to Level 07 within three months of their unapproved appointment.
Government thus noted that it discovered over 500 staff that are Executive and Assistant Executive Officers more than triple the number of available doctors and consultants.
According to the statement, “What sense would it make for hospital with 34 administrative officers; 56 consultants and 154 Resident Doctors to employ 426 Administrative Executive Officers?
“Should there be need for recruitment at all, will it not be beneficial for government and the hospital management to recruit officers into strategic area of the state’s healthcare needs?
“With the current statistics available, the Administrative Executive Officers have more than tripled the numbers of doctors, consultants and nurses, who are the special needs of a functional hospital.
“To make matters worse, all the recruitment and undue promotions of workers from Grade Level 2 to that of Grade Level 07 within 3 months were done without the approval of the government.”
Furthermore, the statement noted that some resident doctors, who were asked to go, were those that have exceeded the mandatory six years required to pass residency examination, adding that some of these doctors have spent more that 10 years in the hospital.

The Permanent Secretary for the State Ministry Of Education, Science and Technology, Mr Sunday Festus Olajide has urged Staff in the Ministry of  Education to jettison selfish or egoistic habit that may have negative impact in service delivery in the education sector and form a synergy to move education in the State of Osun to its rightful
position.
 

 
Mr Olajide made the call during a meeting with the officers in the Department of Planning and Statistics, Administration and Supply, Finance and Account, Internal and External Audits unit in the Ministry
of Education.
He maintained that Education remains a focal ministry for the present administration of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s administration. He therefore noted  that implementation of education policy should be a collective responsibility to achieve a desired goal in education.
Mr Olajide pointed out that lack of team work as he observed is a contributory factor that rendered some officers ineffective in their official responsibilities particularly internally generated revenue officers.
He therefore warned that all abnormalities should henceforth stop and no officer should negotiate or compromise the standard of service or materials delivered to the ministry.

The Head of Service of the State of Osun , Mr Sunday Olayinka Owoeye has charged deployed officers from the civil service with relevant teaching qualification into the state teaching service  to see their deployment has a call to service.
 

 
 
Mr Owoeye stated this while declaring open a 2-day refresher course organised by Teachers Establishment and Pension Office for newly deployed teachers held at ANCOPPS House, OSOGBO.
He equally advised the officers to put in their professional skills to bring about the expected change into the education sector of the state.
The Head of Service also lauded the commitment of the Aregbesola led administration for the rejuvenation of the sector through many innovative programmes such as provision of the state of art physical infrastructural facilities, supply of infrastructural facilities, supply of instructional materials and increase in the quantity and quality of teachers.
Mr Owoeye noted that the steps taken by the government will not only tackle the shortage of qualified teaching personnel in public schools but also afford government the opportunity to reshuffle its human resources  to ensure that officers are moved to areas appropriate to their training and competences.
Earlier in his welcome address,the Chairman, Teachers Establishment and Pensions Office, Hon. Tope Ogunleye appreciated the Governor for his commitment towards the uplift  of the Education sector .
Hon Ogunleye then called on principals, vice principals, Heads of Departments, Headmasters and Headmistresses to endeavor to monitor the new teachers for effective service delivery because they need all the necessary assistance to facilitate their smooth transition from their former schedules to the teaching profession.