Fraudsters Disguise as Admission Officers, Beware - OAU To Admission Seekers

Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife through its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju have been warned the Parents and guardians of candidates seeking admission into the to be weary of fraudsters who parade themselves as admission officers.

Giving the warning in a release by the, it stated that one of such alleged fraudsters who claimed to be the admission officer of the university, gave his name as Omodele Taiwo Ezekiel.

Omodele who was said to be an indigene of Erinjiyan Ekiti according to Olanrewaju, has been nabbed by the security operatives of the university after he had collected over N600,000 from two parents seeking admission into OAU for their children.

According to Olarewaju: “Taiwo Omodele’s attempt to collect additional N100,000 from his two victims eventually led to his arrest.

“Upon interrogation, he admitted committing the crime and collecting the money, but blamed the devil for pushing him into the act.

Kaduna Govt. Shuts down GGC Zonkwa Over Fire Outbreak

It is will be recalled that fire had razed two hostels in GGC and a hostel in GGSS Zonkwa in the early hours of Tuesday while students were in class. And prior to this the Kaduna State Government has announced the closure of Government Girls College (GGC) and Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) in Zonkwa, Zangon Kataf local government area of the state following fire outbreak that gutted it’s hostels.

The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Dr Shehu Adamu, confirmed the decision in Zonkwa while briefing newsmen shortly after he visited the schools to ascertain the level of damage caused by the inferno.

The Commissioner explained that the decision to close down the schools until further notice was to forestall further outbreak that might lead to loss of lives, particularly if it occur at night.

According to him, “I ordered that the schools be closed down as soon as I received the sad news of the fire incident to prevent further disaster.

“The worst-case scenario is for another fire incident to occur when the students are sleeping; lives would be lost. We are even lucky this one occurred in the morning when the students were in their classes, “he said.

Adamu described the fire outbreak as unfortunate, adding that the cause of the fire in GGC is being investigated, while a suspect has been arrested in connection with that of GGSS.

“Based on the report on my table, while people are trying to put out the fire at GGC, there was an alarm of another fire at a hostel in the neighbouring GGSS.

“A JSS I girl, (name withheld) however, was arrested at the scene and has confessed to have started the fire.

“When asked why she did it, she said she burnt down the hostel because she doesn’t like boarding school, but her parent insisted she must come”.

The commissioner said that the girl had been handed over to the police for further questioning to ascertain the validity of her confession, her mental health and other possible reasons or accomplice.

He commended the schools management and the members of the community for helping to put out the fire and prevent it from spreading to other structures.

Dr. Adamu said that the schools would re-open as soon as the hostels were repaired and investigations concluded on the cause of the fire.

One Subject One Teacher in Primary Schools - Akwa Ibom Govt.

Akwa Ibom State Government says the state will soon implement the one teacher one subject policy in public primary schools in Akwa Ibom.

Governor Udom Emmanuel stated this in Eket at the inauguration of five renovated classrooms block at St. Paul’s Lutheran School in Ikot Ibiok, Eket, on Saturday.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mr Andrew Okon renovated and donated five classroom blocks with 60 dual desks as well as five tables and five chairs to St. Paul’s Lutheran School, Eket.

The governor, who was represented by the Commissioner for Education, Mr Aniekan Akpan, said that the policy was to ensure quality education.

“Government is coming up with a policy of ensuring that we utilise effectively our own teachers who have specialised in different areas starting from next year.

“We want to gradually move from the old Teachers Training College arrangement from next session.

“ We will have teachers of mathematics teaching mathematics in all the classes,’’ Emmanuel said.

According to him, a teachers that teaches different subjects is not making use of his knowledge well and not helping the system.

“Rather than keeping one teacher to be a master of all or to be teaching all subjects, we better create professionalism and division of labour in teaching.

“From studies, we have discovered that is not really helping and preparing the children for further education.

“But they can still go round other classes to teach, we want to fully utilised the capacity of the teachers that we have in the primary school, for now they are not fully utilised,’’ he said.

He said the state government had commenced distribution of computers to public primary and secondary schools in the state, adding that computers would be sent to St Paul’s Luthuran School next week.

The governor said that his administration was passionate about education and promised to support schools across the state.

The governor appealed to the people to assist school management to protect infrastructure provided by the state government.

In his remarks, the Transitional Chairman of Eket, Mr Frank Archibong, commended the philanthropist who paid the bills for the renovation.

He urged other well to do stakeholders, public spirited individuals and corporate organisations to emulate him.

Also speaking, Mrs Grace Etok, the Head Teacher of the school, expressed appreciation to God and the philanthropist for the initiative.

Etok called on government to build a perimeter fence round the school to check trespassing and stealing.

NAN recalled that the pupils of the school had over the past years been sitting on bare floor to read and write. (NAN)