The Bauchi State government has awarded the sum of N2.6 million to five elderly people for their selfless services in their various communities.

Speaking during the presentation of cheques to the beneficiaries on Tuesday, Hajiya Hajara Wanka, the state Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management, said the ministry used the occasion of the 2025 World Humanitarian Day to extend the gesture.

According to her, the occasion was to recognise people that had given their services voluntarily to their various communities and without being paid.

“We have chosen five people and I’m glad to say that they are all deserving. Two of them were nominated through our radio programme.

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“We presented awards of excellence and a token to five of them to celebrate the 2025 World Humanitarian Day.

“The one that took the first position which I nominated is the Ward Head of Gwallaga who gave his service to the community, to his people and to humanity .

“He has been there for the community over the years and now that he is old, we felt it’s important to remember people like them,” she said.

The commissioner explained that another beneficiary has been intentional in going to hospitals everyday to greet people and also pray for them.

She said, “We felt it’s also important to honour what he has been doing and to let him and other people know that people are watchful of all the good things you do and that is why we honoured him.”

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Wanka recounted how another beneficiary has been taking care of a maternity ward constructed in Toro Local Government Area of the state for the past 20 years without being paid, saying “we feel these are the people we should look for on this day and honour them”.

“There is also one other person who has given his service to a mosque in their locality.

“He has been taking care of the mosque, keeping it fit and also fetching water for people to perform their ablutions and he is doing other things to help people seeking assistance in that community,” she said.

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Alh. Dandada Ahmadu, the Ward Head of Gwallaga was awarded the sum of N1 million, Malam Isa Bagali got N700,000, Babangida Abba got N500,000.

Others included Idris Baba who was awarded the sum of N250,000 and Malam Abdullahi who got the sum of N200,000

Malam Isa Bagali, who spoke on behalf of others, appreciated the state government for the kind gesture, adding that they will continue to do their best in helping their communities and the state at large.

Edo State Government has issued new guidelines on education for both basic and secondary schools in the state.

The educational guidelines were contained in a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Education, Dr. Emmanuel Paddy Iyamu.

Below is the full statement:

POLICY ON EDUCATION FOR BASIC AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN EDO STATE

The Edo State Ministry of Education is committed to providing clear policy direction on all educational matters while ensuring quality, standards, and inclusiveness across the State’s education system.

2. In line with the National and State Policies on Education, the Edo State Education Law and other relevant statutory frameworks, the Ministry hereby issues the following policy guidelines, which all schools (public, private, and faith-based) in Edo State are required to strictly comply with:

(1) APPROVED TEXTBOOKS: Only textbooks recommended and approved by the Ministry are permitted in all schools across the State.

2) USAGE OF APPROVED TEXTBOOKS: To promote stability and consistency in learning, schools must henceforth allow younger siblings to use
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approved textbooks previously purchased by their older siblings. Approved textbooks are designed to remain in use for a minimum of four (4) years before any review by the Ministry.

3) TEXTBOOKS AND WORKBOOKS DESIGN:
a) Authors and publishers are hereby reminded that no textbook should contain workspaces within its content.
b) Henceforth, any textbook that includes workspaces will be derecognized by the Ministry.
c) Workbooks shall henceforth be produced and used separately from textbooks.

4) GRADUATION CEREMONIES IN SCHOOLS: In line with the provisions of the National and Edo State Policies on Education, henceforth, only students who have completed the Basic 1-9 and Senior Secondary 3 are permitted to hold modest graduation celebrations. However, promenade (prom) ceremonies are highly discouraged as it encourages indecency amongst the students. For the avoidance of doubt, all Pre-Basic pupils are not allowed to embark on graduation ceremonies and parties across the State. This policy is aimed at ensuring that pupils, students, parents, guardians, stakeholders, and school managers remain focused on achieving quality learning outcomes at the conclusion of each educational level.

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5) BINDING
EDUCATIONAL STATUTORY DOCUMENTS: School administrators are once again advised to acquaint themselves with the statutory documents that govern and regulate the standard operations of schools in the State. These include the Education Law, the National and Edo State Policies on Education, Ministry of Education circulars, and other regulatory instruments. Compliance with these documents is mandatory. In particular, the National and Edo State Policies on Education, which equally uphold the following principles:
a) All basic classes are compulsory, including Basic 6 (Primary 6).
b) Skipping of classes is strictly prohibited at all levels of education.
c) Moving pupils / students from lower class to certificate class unduly simply to write Middle Basic Assessment (MBA) or Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is highly prohibited;
d) Use of the National Curriculum is compulsory; additional curricula are optional and cannot replace the national standard.
e) Only qualified teachers are to be engaged for classroom instruction and academic activities in all schools.
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f) Teachers and school leaders in all schools are expected to model discipline, professionalism, and commitment to duty at all times.
g) The Middle Basic Assessment (MBA) and Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) are mandatory for all basic schools in the State.
h) The minimum age of a pupil to write MBA (primary 6) remains 10 yrs.
i) On social safeguards in all Schools, no food is allowed as gift to learners without the approval of parents.
J) Attending seminars during school hours in public schools without Ministry’s approval is prohibited.
k) Students on field trips are to be lodged with their chaperones on same-gender basis only.

(6) HARMONISED SCHOOL CALENDAR: All schools in the State are to strictly adhere to the harmonised school calendar issued by the Ministry for the 2025/2026 academic session. Any parallel calendar is prohibited. Violations will attract appropriate sanctions.

7) SALE OF BOOKS: All public school heads must provide the approved list of books and learning materials for students. The sale of books by school staff is strictly prohibited. No parent shall be coerced to purchase books from a specific vendor.

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8) ADMISSION INTO JSS1 CLASS: Admission into JSS1 shall be strictly based on successful completion of primary education and evidence to have completed Primary Six and written the Middle Basic Assessment (MBA). Admission is FREE in all public schools and must be properly documented.

(9) ADMISSION INTO SS1 AND TECH 1 CLASSES: Admission into SS1 and Tech 1 classes shall be strictly based on successful completion of basic education, that is, with evidence to have completed and written Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Admission is FREE in all public schools. Upon releases of BECE results by the Ministry, all Executive Principals / school heads should request their students who failed the core subjects to retake them. Transfer cases from other schools must be properly verified and documented by the receiving school.

10)ADMISSION INTO CERTIFICATE CLASSES (PRIMARY 6, JSS 3, SS 3, TECH 3): All schools (public and private) are hereby reminded that the Ministry’s policy prohibiting admission into certificate classes (Primary 6, JSS 3, SS 3 and Tech 3) without the written approval of the Honourable Commissioner for Education remains strictly in force. Schools are not permitted to admit new students into these classes without official clearance and approval by the Honourable Commissioner for Education.

Non-compliance will attract severe sanctions, including the immediate closure of the school without prior notice, and the School Head/Owner shall be prosecuted in accordance with the Education Law and other statutory frameworks of the Ministry.

11)EXAMINATION CONDUCT: All forms of examination malpractice and irregularities must be eradicated. School administrators, teachers, and learners must uphold honesty and credibility during all internal and external examinations. Any breach will attract strict sanctions.

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12)CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: All schools must implement co-curricular
programmes including sports, which are mandatory in Edo State schools.

13)SCHOOL SANITATION: All schools must maintain a clean and hygienic environment at all times Learning environments in all schools must be safe, child-friendly, and value-oriented. Weekly sanitation exercises must be observed, and students should be involved in keeping their classrooms clean. Heads of schools will be held accountable for poor sanitary conditions. However, keeping the school tidy should not in any way hinder effective teaching and learning which should commence from the first day of resumption.

(14)ATTENDANCE AND LOITERING: Executive Principals should ensure that both staff and students are regular and punctual at school. Daily attendance must be taken for all students. Loitering during school hours is strictly prohibited. Students found outside their classrooms without valid reasons shall face disciplinary measures while their principals sanctioned as appropriate. All School heads are expected to enforce full compliance with attendance policies.

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15) MANDATORY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS TRAINING FOR JSS 3 STUDENTS – NEW TRADE SUBJECTS: All Executive Principals and school
Heads of Junior Secondary Schools in the State are hereby informed that, as part of the Ministry’s ongoing reforms to bolster entrepreneurship skills among basic education students before graduation, a mandatory four-week intensive entrepreneurship skills training program has been introduced for all JSS 3 students. This is in line with the transformation drive of our education-loving Governor, His Excellency Senator Monday Okpebholo, in ensuring that every Edo child graduates with not just an academic certificate but also a hands-on skill. A certificate of training will be issued along with the BECE certificate.
Recall also that, effective from January 2025, the Basic Education Curriculum was expanded to include fifteen (15) new trade subjects,

Non-compliance will attract severe sanctions, including the immediate closure of the school without prior notice, and the School Head/Owner shall be prosecuted in accordance with the Education Law and other statutory frameworks of the Ministry.

11)EXAMINATION CONDUCT: All forms of examination malpractice and irregularities must be eradicated. School administrators, teachers, and learners must uphold honesty and credibility during all internal and external examinations. Any breach will attract strict sanctions.

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12)CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: All schools must implement co-curricular
programmes including sports, which are mandatory in Edo State schools.

13)SCHOOL SANITATION: All schools must maintain a clean and hygienic environment at all times Learning environments in all schools must be safe, child-friendly, and value-oriented. Weekly sanitation exercises must be observed, and students should be involved in keeping their classrooms clean. Heads of schools will be held accountable for poor sanitary conditions. However, keeping the school tidy should not in any way hinder effective teaching and learning which should commence from the first day of resumption.

14)ATTENDANCE AND LOITERING: Executive Principals should ensure that
both staff and students are regular and punctual at school. Daily attendance must be taken for all students. Loitering during school hours is strictly prohibited. Students found outside their classrooms without valid reasons shall face disciplinary measures while their principals sanctioned as appropriate. All School heads are expected to enforce full compliance with attendance policies.

15) MANDATORY ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS TRAINING FOR JSS 3 STUDENTS – NEW TRADE SUBJECTS:

All Executive Principals and school
Heads of Junior Secondary Schools in the State are hereby informed that, as part of the Ministry’s ongoing reforms to bolster entrepreneurship skills among basic education students before graduation, a mandatory four-week intensive entrepreneurship skills training program has been introduced for all JSS 3 students. This is in line with the transformation drive of our education-loving Governor, His Excellency Senator Monday Okpebholo, in ensuring that every Edo child graduates with not just an academic certificate but also a hands-on skill. A certificate of training will be issued along with the BECE certificate.
Recall also that, effective from January 2025, the Basic Education Curriculum was expanded to include fifteen (15) new trade subjects,

designed to enhance employability through practical, hands-on learning.

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Therefore, training and assessment directives are as follows:

Every JSS 3 student must select at least one trade subject from the newly introduced list below.

Students are required to sit for the trade subject assessment immediately following the BECE practical.

Failure to take the entrepreneurship skills subject will result in disqualification from accessing the BECE certificate.

All JSS 3 students must remain in school for the entrepreneurship intensive training after the BECE.

The 15 Newly Approved Trade Subjects Are:
1. Plumbing
2. Tiling and Floor Works
3. POP (Plaster of Paris) Installation
4. Event Decoration and Management
5. Bakery and Confectioneries
6. Hairstyling
7. Makeup
8. Interior Design
9. GSM Repairs
10. Satellite/TV Antenna Installation
11. CCTV, Intercom Installation, and Maintenance
12. Solar Installation and Maintenance
13. Garment Making
14.Agriculture and Processing (including crop production, beekeeping, horticulture, and livestock farming)
15. Basic Digital Literacy (IT and Robotics)
Action required by all school Heads:
Executive Principals and school Heads are to communicate the requirements of this memo to all JSS 3 students, parents, and staff.
Update school timetables to accommodate the entrepreneurship training period.
Ensure students understand that completion of the trade subject is critical for eligibility to receive their BECE certificate. For any further clarifications or guidance, contact the Department of Education Resource Centre of the Ministry.

6) UNDERTAKING BY NEW INTAKES: All newly admitted students must sign an Undertaking of Good Behaviour along with their parents/guardians (template attached). Signed copies are to be submitted to the Chief Inspector of Education in the relevant LGA, and a copy retained by the school head. Deadline: Two weeks from the date of resumption.
3. All School Heads, Executive Principals are directed to fully comply with the content of this memo. Any act of non-compliance will attract serious sanctions as determined by the Ministry.

Dr. Emmanuel Paddy Iyamu, Honourable Commissioner for Education,
Edo State.

By Suyi Ayodele

After settling KWAM 1 with ambassadorial epaulettes, it appears that National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) President, MC Oluomo, is next to receive Baba’s blessings. With the approval of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) at its meeting last week, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will be building six motor parks (aka bus terminals) across the country.

Our President is a personality prone to hilarious performances. He has introduced another phony enterprise into the business of state with the planned ‘Modern Bus Terminals’ in the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. Please pay attention to the qualifier, ‘modern’ because what follows is pure superlative! When the government is deliberate in its dictions, using adjectives to qualify its head words, you should know that it has something up its sleeves.

The motor parks are evenly distributed this time around. The ‘dot on the map’ zone got its own fair share. There is no ojooro, no magomago, no wuruwuru! The principle of ‘Federal Character’ is at its best element. There will be one bus terminal in Kano. That will take care of the seven states in the North-West. One will be in Gombe for the six states of North-East. The Confluence Town, Lokoja, Kogi State will have one for the entire people of the North-Central zone.

Down South, Abeokuta, Ogun State, will have one for all the children of Oduduwa in the South-West. The Ndigbo will all travel to the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, to enjoy the proposed state-of-the-art bus terminal. The oil-rich Niger Delta is taken care of, also. Their motor park is going to be tucked in the belly of Ewu in Esan Central Local Government Area of Edo State.

Never mind the distance; never bother about the 9.3 hours travelling hours between Sokoto and Kano; a mere 537-kilometre distance. The government has the magic wand to bridge the gap and extend the dividends of the bus terminals to everybody. Fela Anikulapo Kuti called it “government magic”! This government works wonders! Ógbenután!

Now the main gist. Each motor park, the government said, would cost ₦23.6 billion. Please don’t shout! Yes, the bus terminals will be built with bricks and mortar. It will merely cost the country an arm, a leg and several pints of blood. That is not too much of a pain to inflict by a government that is far away from reality!

But the beauty of it all is that the bus terminals will be beautifully decorated and equipped with world-class facilities and equipment. When completed, Angels would no longer want to fly. Our Celestial brethren will travel our roads with us. That itself gives us peace of mind. Nothing can be safer than to be in the same bus with the Angels, the Malaikas and the principalities in high places! We are lucky folks, aren’t we?

No sarcasm is intended. Methinks that every Nigerian that will commence and terminate his or her journey at the bus terminals (please add modern), is guaranteed of his or her safety. How? Aso Rock Villa will be able to monitor every vehicle that leaves each of the bus terminals (or is it bus stop sef?). I put my shirt on it! It is a sure banker! A ₦23.6 billion bus terminal must have security gadgets that should be able to monitor our present, our progress and our future! If it is otherwise, then it is a waste of resources, and President Tinubu blocks wastages!

Nigeria is an ojúmó kan, àrà kan (one day, one stunt) country. We don’t run out of damfool ideas here. The only thing in short supply is a leadership with depth. A complacent followership equally promotes inept leadership. We are gradually gravitating towards the precipice of a failed nation. Many people believe we are already one!

President Tinubu may end up the luckiest president by the time he completes his tour of duty. He is one president who treats the country like his personal estate. And he gets away with it, all the time. Nobody questions him, nobody interrogates his policies. Nobody has the temerity to say: “Baba Seyi, you are not fair to us.”

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In Aso Rock Villa, where he lives at our expense, Tinubu marks off the number of the strokes he has administered to our backs. Then, he takes his champagne. Or is it freshly tapped palm wine? He asks the boys to go back to procure more canes for future flogging. We are completely pummelled! How does he do that; how does he achieve that total appropriation of the people’s resilience?

We simply swallow whatever pill the President forces down our throats. We agonise like the proverbial woman being pleasured by a man with a big phallus. And nothing more. She merely waits in palpable trepidation for the next round of tortuous grinding.

Nigerians have been conditioned to be perpetually complacent by a government that trades in poverty and profits by inflicting pain! We blech. We stretch. We look for any available pillow to rest our weary heads. Then we wait for the next round of dosage. Our ruiners of this epoch are not just mean, wicked and audacious; they are inorganic, pathologically cold-blooded!

That the Tinubu administration is heavily transactional is no longer ‘a topic for future symposium’ (apologies to Fela). That itself is not the real problem, not the real bad case, here. The brazen way the administration goes about its Mr-Giwa-is-a-trader activities is the most irritating. The citizenry appears completely battered such that not a whimper is heard from them anytime the government comes up with its nothing-go-happen policies.

By the approval given by the FEC last Wednesday, the six motor parks, colourfully presented to us as “Modern Bus Terminals’, will be built for the sum of ₦142,028,576,008.17. Nigeria’s FEC is the gathering of all ministers and any appointee of cabinet rank. Sa’idu Ahmed Alkali, the Minister of Transportation, told us FEC approved the project.

By simple Arithmetic formula of Division, the cost of each terminal is N23.6 billion! That will depend on the inflation rate between when the contract is awarded and when it is executed. If prices of goods and services go up the way they do daily in Nigeria, there will be room for contract variation. So, by the time the terminals are ready, the cost might have gone up.

When Alkali announced the ‘deal’, my mind raced to my secondary school days when we were taught Types of Legislative Power. Did our Government subject teachers misinform or miseducate us by saying that building a motor park is a function listed in the Residual Legislative List? Were they wrong to have said that construction, running and the maintenance of motor parks or ‘modern bus terminals’ are the responsibilities of the third tier of government, the local government? Do I simply say this “is confusing me?”

The minister, a former senator, while justifying this put-on, attributed “crimes, road accidents and illegal arms proliferation” to the lack of major bus terminals in the country. How can a man be phony and funny at the same time? How do we situate this type of reasoning: “because there are no bus terminals to address the interests of millions of Nigerian commuters, as a result, we have a lot of crime, road traffic accidents, and proliferation of arms and ammunition on our highways?”

What logic! In Alkali’s reasoning and Tinubu’s approval, once these bus terminals are built, all the bandits, kidnappers and other felons operating all over Nigeria will have no way to move their weapons? The Kano bus terminal designated for the North-West for instance, would ensure that bandits in Kaduna, Kebbi, Jigawa, Sokoto, Katsina and Zamfara are shut out of arms and ammunition supply? What exactly is lacking in this administration?

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How would a government think that in 2025, a bus terminal built in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, would solve the road transportation problems of the remaining states in the South-West? Couldn’t we have channelled the ₦142,028,576,008.17 to the East-West Road that has remained in a state of interminable construction?

How does one explain that of all the problems confronting us as a nation, the priority of this administration is the construction of “modern bus terminals” in the six geo-political zones of the country? How do we tell generations to come that at a time Nigeria was battling with insurgency and banditry in the North and kidnapping, farmers cum herders’ clash in the South, the Federal Government was busy constructing motor parks, a project that local government councils could handle? Why this lack of compunction by this government of promised but undelivered ‘hope’?

In China, there is a bridge that is 168.8 kilometres long. The Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is rated as the world’s longest bridge, spanning 164 kilometres! Constructed between April 18, 2006, and November 15, 2010, the bridge cost the Chinese Government $8.6 billion US dollar. That, in our currency, is a whopping ₦13.175 trillion.

Back here in Nigeria, we have our darling 3rd Mainland Bridge built by the Alhaji Shehu Shagari and General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) administrations in two phases between 1980 and 1990. The span of the 3rd Mainland Bridge is 11.8 kilometres. And to repair the bridge, this administration said it would cost us ₦3.6 trillion! In mathematical terms, the cost of repairs on the 3rd Mainland Bridge is one third the cost of the construction of Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge.

To know who we are and what the government thinks we are, we must understand that the Chinese Danyang-Kunshan Grand Bridge is 14 times longer than our 3rd Mainland Bridge! If Fela were to be here today, he would simply sing: arrangee na be that o. And he would be right!

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That is not all. In the last two weeks again, the FEC also approved the sum of N712 billion to remodel the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA). In justifying this prodigious spending, we were told that by the time the facelifts were completed, Angels would want to fly to Nigeria because the airport would be as beautiful as the gold-paved streets of heaven!

Nobody is saying, by any stretch of argument, that the government should not fix decaying infrastructure. Our argument here is that the government should get its priorities right. The data gleaned from the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) as of December 2023, gave a figure of over 5.9 million passengers at the MMIA in two years.

What percentage of Nigeria’s estimated population of over 200 million people is that? The simple implication is that there are far more Nigerians on the road than in the air. A government that is masses-sensitive will address critical segments that touch the lives of the highest population distribution. If more than 70 percent of Nigerians use road transportation, the focus should be on building more roads in addition to rehabilitating existing failed roads across the country.

In the last one week, Ekiti State has been in the news for the wrong reasons of the bad roads there. The videos of the terrible states of the roads are too graphic to ignore. The state is almost completely cut off from the rest of the country. And the situation is the same in all states of the Federation. There is no state in Nigeria without its own tales of woes when it comes to bad roads.

Worst hit is the Niger Delta where we get the resources that oil the engine of Nigeria. It is an eternal shame that the East-West Road has remained in perpetual state of construction. It is a national embarrassment that the terrible state of the Benin-Warri Expressway makes people spend six hours on a journey that was less than one hour before!

For Pete’s sake, the MMIA is not in a beauty pageant with any international airport. Yes, fix it, make it good but not with the humongous figures the government is throwing at us. That we are not hunters does not mean we cannot identify the spores of games on wet soil (àìi sode rí, kò ní ká má mo sa kò ko níhîn). If the government is looking for chop money for the boys, it should come out clean.

The defense by Tunde Moshood, Special Adviser on Media and Communications to Festus Keyamo, the Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, asking Nigerians to adopt a ‘more informed and constructive approach’ to the N712 billion MMIA project, is to say the least, very insensitive and insulting to our sensibilities. We cannot all be slaves to our stomachs; Moshood should be told to be bold enough to advise his boss and the government he represents that certain things can wait. He and his boss are the ones to learn to gauge the mood of the people before they begin to call the dog monkey for us!

A Federal Government that is talking about building motor parks in a true Federal State needs elementary tutorials in Government and Devolution of Power. Minister Alkali got it completely wrong to think that lack of bus terminals is the reason why crimes like kidnapping and armed robbery happen on our highways.

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The felons on the bad spots of the death traps we call highways don’t need any bus terminal or motor park to operate. They don’t have to register their vehicles and their content before they move to ‘sites’. We should be able to boast of someone with bare-bones penetration in this government. The jejune argument for the Federal Government ‘Modern Bus Terminals’ is annoying, very unnerving.

It is odiously nauseating that presumed men and women of class sat in that FEC to approve such a proposal. If the short among them is lacking in depth, the tall should show acuity (bí kékeré won bá gò, ó ye kí gíga won gbón). Someone should have shot down the Alkali’s proposal as lacking in sensitivity to the needs of the people. Someone should have reasoned that Nigerians cannot be going through the pain in the land and a FEC would be debating or approving inane proposals like the motor park project, no matter the deodorant sprayed on it!

How did they all sleep with their heads in one direction in that Council? How did the cabinet members come up with the conclusion that six motor parks in six different locations in our 36-state federation is the best the government could offer? And these are the ones leading Nigeria of 2025? Yes-men and women with illogical minds? Ghosh!

Can someone please tell President Tinubu to spare us this farce! Can those close to the President tell him that his boy, MC Oluomo, cannot be doing the monkey business of motor park management pan Nigeria as NURTW President, while the Jagaban himself is running the same show at the centre, from Aso Rock? This ‘Modern Bus Terminals’ project is nothing but an agbero business. Mr. President, e kúrò nídìí ìdò, eré omodé ni (Leave the hide and seek game, it’s juvenile play)!