Ministry of Education denies harmonizing university degrees and HND

In response to the news circulating that the Ministry of Education has bridge the gap between University degrees and Higher National Diploma, the Ministry has made their stand known on the issue.The Ministry of Education has denied harmonizing the degrees and higher national diploma awarded by universities and polytechnics.

Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu

A spokesperson for the ministry denied recent reports that the dichotomy between Bachelors and HNDs had been abolished, saying HND holders must meet new requirements to attain the Bachelors level.Speaking to PREMIUM TIMES on Friday, Benjamin Goong, said the ministry lacked the power to end the inequality.
He however said the government had taken steps to bridge the gap to ensure HND holders are treated fairly when seeking for jobs.
“Two weeks ago, the ministry sent a memo to the National Council of Establishments (NCE) to institute a bridging program for the HND holders and the proposal was approved.
“The bridging program is for HND holders who can either attend the National Teachers Institute (NTI) or any institution offering post-graduate diploma programs, before they can attain the level graduates can attain in the public sector.
“As per the approved memo, after the bridging program, HND holders will now be offered jobs from grade level 8 and finish at grade level 17 like graduates. Before now, HND holders were only allowed grade level 7 and finish at grade level 14.
“That is as far as it goes for now regarding the B.Sc and HND dichotomy. Both are still very different from each other,” he said.

An education analyst, Dorothy Oseni, said creation of jobs for both B.Sc and HND holders was the surest way of bridging the gap between both classes of educated people.
“When the government, industries and companies no longer discriminate against HND holders in the labour market, the dichotomy will die a natural death,” she said

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States share N145billion allocation for July

The 36 states in July shared N145 billion from the Federation Account as their share of what the country generated as revenue from June and shared in July.
The breakdown is contained in a report obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday from a source at the office of the Accountant-General of the Federation.

NAN recalls that at the last Federation Account Allocation Committee meeting held in July, federal, states and local governments shared N559 billion as against the N305 billion that was shared before that.
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, attributed the increase, which is the highest for the administration, to efficiency in collection by revenue generating agencies, especially the Federal Inland Revenue Service.

However, a source at the office of the Accountant-General’s Office said the increase was simply companies paying their Company Income Tax.
The person said CIT was usually paid between June and August every year.

He said: “If you follow revenue trend, you will notice that the federation’s revenue goes up around these period, so it’s nothing new.”

The report showed that the revenue distributed included the Gross Statutory revenue, Value Added Tax, exchange gain, solid minerals revenue from 2007 to 2014 and 13 per cent derivation to oil producing states.

The report showed that before distribution, state liabilities were deducted.

The liabilities included external debt of N1.67 billion, contractual obligations of N10.62 billion and other deductions amounting to N17.1 billion.

The report showed that other deductions cover National Water Rehabilitation Projects, National Agricultural Technology Support, Payment for Fertilizer, State Water Supply Project, State Agriculture Project and National Fadama Project.
To sum it up, here is what the 36 states got after all deductions were made:

Abia N3.55 billlion,
Adamawa N3.53 billion,
Cross River N2.65 billion,
Ekiti N2.42 billion,
Edo N2.9 billion,
Kaduna N4.79 billion,
Kano N5.95 billion,
Lagos N8.30 billion,
Rivers N6.82 billion
and Zamfara, N2.95 billion.
Delta N5.1 billion,
Anambra N3.82 billion,
Benue N3.89 billion,
Borno N4.2 billion,
Ebonyi N3.40 billion,
Enugu N3.72 billion,
Gombe N2.89 billion,
Nassarawa N3.31 billion,
Imo N3.7 billion
and Kano N3.89 billion.
Yobe got N3.67 billion,
Taraba N3.36 billion,
Sokoto N4.08 billion,
Plateau N2.81 billion,
Oyo N4.13 billion,
Osun N1.2 billion,
Ondo N3.7 billion,
Ogun N2.83 billion,
Niger N3.82 billion
and Kebbi N3.78 billion.
Also, Katsina got N4.49 billion,
Bayelsa N4.98 billion,
Bauchi N4 billion,
Jigawa N4.25 billion,
Kebbi N3.78 billion
and Kwara N3.07 billion.

The report also showed that the Federal Capital Territory got N5.2 billion from the Federal Government’s share of the distributable revenue for the month of June, shared in July, 2016.

Source: The Eagle

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Leicester City's owner gives new cars for players

The celebration of historical English premiership win still continues in Leicester as Leicester City's owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha bought a BMW i8 each for every Leicester player. The £100,000 car which is a gesture from Leicester city owner to the players for their incredible title win.

19 BMWs were today lined up ready for the players to pick up following their Premier League title win. At £100,000 per car, that's a pretty generous gift.
 as Leicester City’s players would have already been well rewarded for their stunning Premier League title win last season but that has not stopped owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha from giving the squad a £100,000 BMW i8 each.

The Foxes made the unbelievable by breaking the odds to win the title by ten points last season and Srivaddhanaprabha had reportedly vowed to give every player a Mercedes B-Class Electric Drive, which cost in the region of £32,000. However,Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha appears to have gone the extra mile and broken the bank by spending nearly £2million on 19 new BMWs, which are waiting for the Foxes players to pick up outside the King Power Stadium.

Although there were 23 players used by boss Claudio Ranieri last season but only 19 cars have been purchased. The four players who have missed out the BMW car gift are reportedly Joe Dodoo, Andrej Kramaric, Yohan Benalouane and N’Golo Kante, who joined Chelsea earlier this summer.

The new Premier League season is just eight days away and Leicester City will be hoping they can defend their incredible title win.Leicester city face FA Cup winners Manchester United in the Community Shield on Sunday at Wembley.

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Waec has released May/June 2016 WASSCE result

All eyes have been up to when WAEC will release the result of May/June examination. I am happy to inform you that The West African Examinations Council has officially announced the release of the May/June 2016 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results.

Speaking during a press conference in Lagos, the Head of National Office (HNO), Mr. Isaac Adenipekun, said that a total of 1,552,758 candidates registered for the examination, out of which 1,544,234 sat for the exam.

He said that 825,650, representing 53.5% were male while 718,585, representing 46.5% were female.

In a breakdown of the results, a total of 1,393,907 candidates, representing 90.26% have their results fully released while 158,718 candidates, representing 9.74% have a few of their subjects still being processed due to some errors mainly traceable to the candidates and schools in the course of registration or writing the examination.

Such errors are being corrected by the Council to enable the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released subsequently.

A total of 878,040 candidates, representing 52.97%, obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

The HNO added that there was a significant improvement in the performance of candidates when compared with the results of 2014 and 2015 examinations.

Speaking on the performance of blind candidates, Mr. Adenipekun, said that 133 visually challenged candidates registered for and sat for the examination from which 23 candidates, representing 17.29% got credits in 5 subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

He further stated that candidates will be able to check their results on the Council’s website within the next 24 hours.

All candidates who sat for May/June WASSCE should visithttp://waecdirect.org to check their result

Wish you the best

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