BANK OF EDUCATION (BOE) PROJECT: THE BIG IDEA ....AS PROMULGATED BY DARE OLOWOLEYE

  Overview/Background

The Education Sector in Nigeria is in shambles. The standards of Education are abysmal. Education infrastructures are rapidly decaying and restoration or resurrection process, or even damage control plans are non-existence. The United Nations (UN) in its reports has continued to warn the Nigerian Government on the negative outcomes of its inaction in the sector. Such of the negative outcomes may include Poverty, breakdown of Law and Order, Extremist, Terrorism and indisputably, War.

Nigeria was a golden destination to the world pre and post-independence era. What then happened? How come the standards of Education in Nigeria took a nose dive? A 2018 UN report on Education indicated that Nigeria has the highest number of children out of the school in the world. Over 13.2million Nigerian children are out of school! Why?

JUNE 12 ELECTION ANNIVERSARY...24YEARS AFTER

June 12,1993 will forever be remembered by Nigerians. That day, Nigerians trooped out en masse to voted in Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola,CFR the adjudged winner of the most free and fair election in nigeria history.

FIVE-MINUTE MANAGEMENT COURSE.

Lesson One ...

An eagle was sitting on a tree resting, doing nothing.

A small rabbit saw the eagle and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing?"

The eagle answered: "Sure, why not."

AMAZING STORY OF KFC FOUNDER, COL. HARLAND SANDERS

KFC was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, an entrepreneur who began selling fried chicken from his roadside restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky during the Great Depression.

WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES BACK AROUND

One Afternoon A Husband Arrived Home With Sad News.

*HUBBY:* Baby, I just received a call: mother is not feeling well. Shall we go to town and get some necessities for the Visit? Please write a list and then we can go.

FOR THE RECORDS...The Mossad Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko: The Full Story

by Max Siollun

Umaru Dikko
Alhaji Umaru Abdurrahaman Dikko was born on December 31, 1936 in the small village of Wamba, close to Zaria in Kaduna State. As a young man Dikko worked for the BBC’s Hausa service. He has been at the vanguard of northern Nigerian politics since the 1960s when, then as a promising young politician he was instrumental in (i) mobilising northern public opinion against Nigeria’s first

MOTHERING DAY: SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MY MOTHER, CHIEF S.O.BELLO ON HER HOME COMING TO OSOGBO

By Ajibola S. Bello

In 1972, your husband Chief J. Olajide Bello was transferred from Ibadan in the old Oyo state to Akure suddenly to became a Station head, even though there was no friends or relatives there to help him settle down and he must resumed unfailingly the next 48 hours, you have an option to remain in Ibadan where there is abundance of your family or return to

MUST READ! "FULANI HERDSMEN KILLINGS; MODUS OPERANDI, THOSE INVOLVED, AND THE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS" BY Professor Charles Adisa

The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the people/s hopes and aspirations. Apart from lack of adequate preparation for leadership, one other notable factor that had inhibited good leadership among African leaders is the seemingly non-existent structures for research and information management in the society. Hence, many well-meaning leaders often do not have the requisite information needed for a thorough appraisal and resolution of problems as they arise.

GET BETTER, NOT BITTER

A teacher asked her students to bring some tomatoes in a plastic bag to school. Each tomato will be given a name of the person whom that child hates.

 Like this, the number of tomatoes will be equal to the number of persons they hate.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

A group of 50 people attended a seminar.

Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each person a balloon.

Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker.

Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

*I WANT TO BE A TV*

A Primary School teacher asked her pupils to write an essay on ”A wish you want from God?" At the end of the day, the teacher collected all the essays given by her pupils. She took them to her house, sat down and started marking.

Whilst marking the essays, she sees a strange essay written by one of her pupils. That essay made her very emotional. Her husband came and sat beside her and saw her crying. The husband asked her, "What happened?" "What's making you cry"

MAYBE...

One day, the farmer's horse ran away, and all the neighbours gathered in the evening and said ‘that’s too bad.’

He said ‘maybe.’

DEAD CURIOUS

**Why are they called STAIRS inside but STEPS outside?

**If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?

**Who was the first person to look at a cow and said
    " I think I will squeeze these dangly things here and drink
     whatever comes out.???

KEY ABBREVIATIONS AND THEIR MEANING

1.) *NEWS*- North East West South
2.) *ATM*- Asynchronous Transfer Mode
3.) * CRV*- Current Replacement Value
4.) *UMTS - Universal Mobile Telecommunication System
5.) *VSAT- Very Small Aperture Terminal
6.) *SMS - Short Message Service

HISTORY: DID YOU KNOW THAT....(NIGERIA VERSION PT 2)

1. The River Niger Bridge at Onitsha was constructed between 1964 and 1965 by Dumez- a French construction company and cost £5 million.

2. Patience Jonathan is one of Nigeria’s most-educated First Ladies, with an NCE, a B.Ed, and Msc from University of Port-Harcourt.

3. The highest peak in Nigeria is located in Taraba and is called Chappal Waddi which means “The Mountain of Death”.

YORUBA EPIC POEM AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATION (AKOSORI YORUBA FUN GBOGBO OMO KAARO OOJIIRE)

*ISÉ NI ÒÒGÙN ÌSÉ
Work is the antidote for poverty.

*MÚRA SÍ ISÉ RE, ÒRÉÈ MI
Work hard, my friend.

*ISÉ NI A FI Í DI ENI GIGA
work is used to elevate one in respect and importance
(Aspiring to higher height is fully dependent on hard work).

BE LESS PREDICTABLE

They killed him at 7pm at Ebute Metta Lagos, he was fucking predictable, they knew he will always remove all the magical charms on his body whenever he is praying Maghreb at 7pm, Prof Peller paid the price for being too predictable!

26 LIFE PRINCIPLES YOU NEED TO KNOW

          *A*
      *ACCEPT*
      Accept others for who they are and
      for the choices they have made even if
      you have difficulty  understanding their
      beliefs, motives or actions.

          *B*
      *BREAK AWAY*
      Break away from everything that
      stands in the way of what you hope
      to accomplish with your life.

LITTLE DROPS....

Recently, when I was going to bed after using my bathroom, I started hearing sound of drops of water from the tap in slow successions, but since it was dropping into an empty bucket, I decided to let it be.

YORUBA INTERPRETATION OF DIFFERENT GRADES OF CHOPIN' IN GOVERNMENT IN NIGERIA

1. When you chop alone in government and no one chops with you, that is called ADAJE.

2. When you chop in government and you allow others to chop their own, that is called AJOJE.

3. When you chop in government and you give others from what you have chopulated, that is called AFUNJE.