“We don’t have teachers in local areas while they are in surplus in our cities, particularly Ado Ekiti. This lopsidedness is a major problem and we have to embark on teachers’ redistribution. If we don’t use a radical approach, we won’t go far.
“We have teachers that are sufficient in primary schools, but the question to ask is, have those teachers in the villages committed a crime?
“The new policy now is, is either they honour the postings we are going to do or they tender their resignation. Some believe they can influence, but in this exercise, we are going to transfer those who thought they are untouchable.
“Ekiti has the best teachers-pupils ratio in Nigeria, which is 1 to 28. It is even 1 to 14 in our rural schools. With this, we have no reason why we should not have the best results in public examinations.
“Before Governor Fayemi came, Counterpart funding not paid, salary and pension not paid, promotion not regular, training and retraining of staff went to a halt for four years causing poor performances of pupils. But today, the governor has paid arrears of 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 and partly 2021 promotions.
“Quality assurance is the best way to achieve the best in any organisation. If we are doing much in all areas, but we can’t monitor and ensure we are getting quality, then things will go wrong”.
… The SUBEB Chairman, Prof. Femi Akinwumi
“I want to see the nation smile again, and I want to see it before I move to Ghana,” he told Oprah. “I’m going to do that. I’m going to move permanently to Ghana.
“Because I don’t want to see my children’s children’s children’s have to say ‘Oh please, like me. Please respect me. Please value me. What kind of sh*t is that?
“I want the world to get better. I want us to get beyond this place. I want us all to go to the funeral of hate. That’s what I want.”
… Legendary American singer, Stevie Wonder
” Herdsmen will attack us, rape our women, destroy our farms and kill our farmers nobody will arrest them but when we try to defend ourselves, government will come after us rolling out the tanks and using their helicopter gun boats
” If defending our ancestral land against conquest by Fulani Janjaweed invaders will take me to the Hague I am ready to go to the Hague
” The world has the
indicting report by the UN Reportuer against Nigeria but they have not done
anything. Do we have to wait until we are all killed before we defend ourselves?”
… Leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu
“All posthumous accolades are fine, but they come to naught and even political hypocrisy if the current Governors and legislators cannot lead like Jakande in securing lives and properties, selflessness, disinterestedness, provisioning of mass housing and education for the poor, advocacy for a United and inclusive Nigeria like Dr Jainadu.
“Good or bad governance is Local. Governors organize with all their energies and resources, campaigned to win offices; they must then stop “agonizing” in the wake of security challenges. They must organize their respective communities to pro-actively prevent the unacceptable carnage we are witnessing in both rural and urban centers of the state.
“… the poorest of the poor,” adding that state governors “must not inadvertently fuel class war against the poor through indifference to “poor- on- poor” violence being presented as ethnic clashes in some communities.”
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