The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Professor Adeniyi Olowofela disclosed this on Tuesday at the flag – off ceremony for National Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN), Oyo state chapter, 2017/2018 training program, held at Loyola College, Ibadan.

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Revealing further, Professor Olowofela analyzed that the following subventions had been released to the state owned tertiary institutions : “The Polytechnic Ibadan got N83,701,442 as against N51,850,721, Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, received N27,557,507 instead of N12,778,753.60, while the Ibarapa Polytechnic, Eruwa collected N27, 907,151.46k instead of N12,453, 575.73k.

The Commissioner continued, ” also, Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo received N101,089,091.61k against previous N55,544,545.82k, the College of Education, Lanlate received N40,291,138.54k instead of N12,145,569.27k, and Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igbo-ora collected N43,090,139.06k as against N17,045,069.58k. The variance in the increase is due to the peculiarity of each institution”, he explained.

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While maintaining that the government is doing its best to help cushion the financial implication of running these institutions, Olowofela also emphasized that the dwindling accruals to the state, called for belt-tightening measures.

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The Commissioner, however highlighted abolition of mass promotion in public secondary schools, adoption of 80% class/subject attendance in public secondary schools, establishment of School Governing Boards (SGBs) and establishment of Education Monitoring Group, amongst other policies as efforts made by the government to improve on the dwindling performances of students of public secondary schools in the state in external examinations.

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Parents were also urged to check their young ones by examining their mood changes, as parental influence matters in checking this ugly trend.

Making the call at the inauguration of the newly elected executives of the National Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN), Oyo state chapter on Thursday held at Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan, the state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Adeniyi Olowofela who raised alarm over the increasing number of Nigerian youths abusing drugs, also noted that the societal menace remained a major health problem globally as many Nigerian youth experiment with drugs at one point or the other.

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“I want to admonish all parents that we should guide our children jealously, especially on the use of hard drugs. I am imploring NAPTAN to play meaningful roles in separating the youths from drugs”, the commissioner urged.

Prof. Olowofela added that youths had found a new past time in the consumption of hard drugs, cautioned them of the momentous negative health and social repercussions of drug addiction.

Congratulating the executives, Olowofela, however charged them to put in their best as much as possible towards reinvigorating the association.

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The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Professor Adeniyi Olowofela disclosed this on Wednesday during a meeting held with the National Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria, NAPTAN, Oyo state chapter.

Professor Olowofela assured that the policy will help in raising disciplined school children where tax force will be assigned to arrest and discipline students wandering out of school premises to change their attitude towards learning.

Olowofela noted that lack of discipline for the students has made many of the students to be wayward and engaging in devilish acts capable to promote moral decadence in the society.

While advising the parents on closer monitoring of their wards to prevent them from the increased moral decadence, he tasked members of the association to settle ripples among them to be able to achieve collective goals of promoting educational standard of their children.

He therefore thanked the state governor, Abiola Ajimobi for his unrelenting effort of achieving sustainable development despite his feat of second term in office.

He said the governor is physically and mentally alert to address issues which has resulted to the drastic improvements in all sectors in the state.

Also commending the giant strides of the governor, the chairman of the association, Comrade Moshood Toki said initially, the Educational Development Level was at about N3000 but for the convenience of the parents, he slashed it to N1000.

Added that the ‘No Automatic Promotion’ policy by the state government has resulted to excellent performance of the students saying the benefit is most visible in this year’s promotion examination where the students came out with flying colours.

He said: “The students scored 80℅ and above in the examination and this has brought sustainable solutions to the education sector in the state.

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