By Kenneth Atavti
Spokesperson for Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, yesterday said that ‘the opposition is now hunting for the examiners who marked PMB’s scripts in 1961 to ascertain whether the grades in PMB’s WAEC result tallies with the marks they actually gave him.’
Keyamo made this known on his Twitter handle yesterday.
He also said that the dumbest comments he has read about the now dead issue of the President Muhammadu Buhar’s WAEC result is to say WAEC forged its own document.
Where there’s only one body authorized by law to issue a document, it can only make mistakes or clerical errors on it (I don’t concede that here) but cannot forge it.
Nigerian Pilot recalled that last week the West African Examination Council, WAEC, based in Ghana, presented attestation certificate and confirmation of WAEC result to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Registrar of the Council, Dr Iyi Uwadiae, made the presentation at the president’s mini conference hall at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The presentation was witnessed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu and other presidential aides.
Saraki lauds FG for adopting Kwara’s 10-yr old policy
By Olugbenga Salami
Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has commended the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government for adopting the ‘Every Child Counts’ education policy initiated by his administration 10 years ago, when he was governor of Kwara State.
Saraki, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, applauded the government for keying into his decade-old vision for education reform, which was initiated to resuscitate public education in Kwara State by ensuring an improvement in teaching quality across the state and building strong educational institutions in the state through the development of the Ministry of Education, the Teaching Service Commission and strengthening the state Education Management Information System, EMIS.
“I commend the federal government for adopting and modifying the ‘Every Child Counts’ programme that we began in Kwara State in 2008 for the entire country. This shows that this administration values such time-tested ideas that leave positive impact on the lives of our people – especially our young children.
“Right now, our nation is suffering from a rising epidemic. We have over 10.5million out of school children across the country. In order to systematically and strategically cut down on this number, we must work to implement the ‘Every Child Counts’ policy across the country,” the senate president stated.
Saraki also emphasised that the federal government must work to ensure that improving the quality of teachers through constant training and re-education – which was a central focus of the Kwara State model – must play a central role in the Federal Government’s policy approach.
“Teachers are the bedrock of our educational system. The better and more equipped our teachers are the smarter and more educationally sound our young children across the nation will be. Hence, it is important that as we work to build strong educational institutions through this repackaged policy, we must also work to enhance the individual capacities of our teachers to meet the demands of a constantly changing world”, he said.
Saraki called on other states across the nation to study and emulate the Kwara State model, while also commending his successor, Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, for sustaining the model that his administration began in 2008.
“Right now, we must look beyond our political affiliations to address the issues that are important to our people. Other states across the nation should key into the successes of the Kwara State model, as the federal government has done, to ensure that we not only get our students back in the classrooms, but also to improve the quality of their education through strategic and holistic reforms”, he added.
