Nigerian Editors Praise President Jonathan Over FOI Law
Posted By pmnews On May 31, 2011 @ 10:40 pm In National,News,Today's Headlines | No Comments
The Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) has received the news of the assent of President Goodluck Jonathan to the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill with gratitude to a president who has kept his words.
President Goodluck Jonathan.
President Jonathan had, during the last Presidential debate, made a pubic commitment to sign the FOI bill into law once presented to him by the National Assembly as a personal commitment to openness, transparency, accountability and good governance.
President Jonathan has really started well with this sign-post for good governance, according to a statement by the NGE president, Gbenga Adefaye.
By signing the FOI bill into law, the President has more than anyone else empowered the citizens to participate in the governance of their own affairs. The people can now legitimately seek public information, corroborate their facts and make useful suggestions towards achieving greater good for the majority. With access to information, citizens can fight corruption and closet government and confront the few who misappropriate our resources to themselves alone.
For the media, the signing of the FOI law has expanded the frontiers of press freedom for Africa’s most vibrant press. No more will it be permitted for the journalists to hurry to press with half truth and misinformation when they can officially verify their facts.
While the NGE congratulates every Nigerian for this all important citizen’s law and commend the out-going National Assembly for freeing the democratic space for citizens’ involvement in our democratic adventure, we call on everyone to use the law, responsibly.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
The Dilemma Of 91,000 LASU Students
The Dilemma Of 91,000 LASU Students
Posted By pmnews On May 16, 2011 @ 11:53 am In Editorial | No Comments
The revelation that only two campuses of the Lagos State University, LASU, have passed the litmus test of providing qualitative education to students, out of the nine existing campuses in the state, is very disturbing. The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Julius Okojie dropped this bombshell at the weekend in Lagos. With this disclosure, the fate of at least 91,000 students in the affected campuses now hangs in the balance unless authorities of the state owned university move fast by providing the necessary facilities and qualified teaching staff in those seven satellite campuses to meet the standard recommended by NUC.
While the tertiary institution is still grappling with the non accreditation of some of its courses by NUC, the issue of lack of qualitative teaching staff and appalling learning environment is an albatross LASU authorities and the state government have to deal with to avoid the wrath of NUC. While the main campus in Ojo boasts of some of the best academics, the reverse is the case at the Satellite campuses.
The standard of education has fallen so abysmally that most tertiary institutions further shortchange their students by providing substandard facilities and ill trained teaching personnel.
It is even more appalling that despite the nationwide ban on university satellite campuses by NUC, LASU flouted the ban and allowed 9 of such mushroom campuses to flourish across the state. The result is the failure of the authorities of LASU to effectively monitor the satellite campuses and ensure that high academic standard is maintained on such campuses which are not legally recognised by NUC.
How the authorities of the school resolve the problem is left to be seen, but another cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabric of the institution is the inability of students who graduate from the school to receive their degree certificates many years after leaving the school. Students of satellite campuses are worse off.
Because of the large student population and presumably incompetent and careless staff in the satellite campuses, there have been complaints that students examination results are misplaced and by the time they graduate, everything is so muddled up that it is difficult to compile the overall results of students from 100 level to the final year.
It’s so disheartening that thousands of students who have graduated from the school are affected and they have been left in the lurch all these years. Why should keeping examination records be so difficult in an institution that was once highly respected because it towered above its peers?
Where did it all go wrong? This is one of the greatest challenges the school authorities are facing and how they would be surmounted remains to be seen. The students don’t deserve these avoidable problems created by the institution.
This situation has turned LASU, which was once the pride of Lagos state, especially the sterling performance of its law graduates at the Law School, the laughing stock of tertiary institutions in the country. Stakeholders and citizens of Lagos State are looking forward to the restoration of the institution’s lost glory.
Posted By pmnews On May 16, 2011 @ 11:53 am In Editorial | No Comments
The revelation that only two campuses of the Lagos State University, LASU, have passed the litmus test of providing qualitative education to students, out of the nine existing campuses in the state, is very disturbing. The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Julius Okojie dropped this bombshell at the weekend in Lagos. With this disclosure, the fate of at least 91,000 students in the affected campuses now hangs in the balance unless authorities of the state owned university move fast by providing the necessary facilities and qualified teaching staff in those seven satellite campuses to meet the standard recommended by NUC.
While the tertiary institution is still grappling with the non accreditation of some of its courses by NUC, the issue of lack of qualitative teaching staff and appalling learning environment is an albatross LASU authorities and the state government have to deal with to avoid the wrath of NUC. While the main campus in Ojo boasts of some of the best academics, the reverse is the case at the Satellite campuses.
The standard of education has fallen so abysmally that most tertiary institutions further shortchange their students by providing substandard facilities and ill trained teaching personnel.
It is even more appalling that despite the nationwide ban on university satellite campuses by NUC, LASU flouted the ban and allowed 9 of such mushroom campuses to flourish across the state. The result is the failure of the authorities of LASU to effectively monitor the satellite campuses and ensure that high academic standard is maintained on such campuses which are not legally recognised by NUC.
How the authorities of the school resolve the problem is left to be seen, but another cankerworm that has eaten deep into the fabric of the institution is the inability of students who graduate from the school to receive their degree certificates many years after leaving the school. Students of satellite campuses are worse off.
Because of the large student population and presumably incompetent and careless staff in the satellite campuses, there have been complaints that students examination results are misplaced and by the time they graduate, everything is so muddled up that it is difficult to compile the overall results of students from 100 level to the final year.
It’s so disheartening that thousands of students who have graduated from the school are affected and they have been left in the lurch all these years. Why should keeping examination records be so difficult in an institution that was once highly respected because it towered above its peers?
Where did it all go wrong? This is one of the greatest challenges the school authorities are facing and how they would be surmounted remains to be seen. The students don’t deserve these avoidable problems created by the institution.
This situation has turned LASU, which was once the pride of Lagos state, especially the sterling performance of its law graduates at the Law School, the laughing stock of tertiary institutions in the country. Stakeholders and citizens of Lagos State are looking forward to the restoration of the institution’s lost glory.
Monday, May 9, 2011
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
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