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January 15, 2023 Akwa Ibom State Secondary Education Board Blames Boarding Fee Hike on Cost of Living
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Akwa Ibom State Secondary Education Board Blames Boarding Fee Hike on Cost of Living

The state secondary education board in Akwa Ibom state has hinged the 100% increase in boarding fees on the current economic realities in the country.

Last week, some parents of students in Cornelia Connelly College, CCC, Afaha Oku had reached out to Inspiration Fm and expressed displeasure over the increase of boarding fees from 30,000 to 60,000 despite the free and compulsory education mantra being preached by the state government.

Speaking exclusively to Inspiration Fm’s education correspondent, UHUOTU OMILABU, executive chairman of the state secondary education board, Mrs. EKAETTE OKON insisted that the decision became necessary owing to how the economy has panned out recently.

“The economy is not just what it used to be, on a daily basis there is increment in terms of food and every other thing in the market, we find it difficult to continue running a boarding school with the money that parents and students were paying”

“I also want to draw your attention that the same parents that are complaining in our public schools are the same parents that send their children to private boarding schools. In some of these private boarding schools, their charges are about 350,000, 250,000 but here you find the state government pegging the price at 60,000, giving breakfast, lunch and dinner for 13 weeks.”

Mrs. EKAETTE further appealed to parents to applaud the efforts of the government in subsizing education in the state instead of complaining, saying that education cannot be totally free.

“There is no part of the world that education is totally free, that parents only produce children and send them to government schools and expect government to do everything. It’s not done anywhere in the entire world. Education is capital intensive.

“If these children are supposed to pay tuition fee, I am sure that it will not be anything less than a 100,000. Look at simple private nursery and primary school, a child in the crèche will pay up to 60,000 and then in nursery school some of them pay 140,000 and we are talking of secondary school and parents are complaining”

The increment in boarding fees cuts across all secondary schools in the state and does not cover for other items like sanitary tools that students are expected to bring along to school.

January 12, 2023 INEC Releases Final Voters Register of 93.469 Million Persons, 2.35 Million in Akwa Ibom
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INEC Releases Final Voters Register of 93.469 Million Persons, 2.35 Million in Akwa Ibom

The Independent National Electoral Commission; INEC on Wednesday released the final voters register, showing eligible persons ahead of the 2023 elections, at a meeting with leaders of political parties at the INEC headquarters, Abuja.

INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said the total number stood at 93,469,008 a number which consisted of 37,060,399 registered youth .

 

In November 2022, the commission published the preliminary register of voters across the 774 local government areas on its website to enable eligible voters to confirm their details, as well as for Nigerians to report ineligible persons captured in the register.

Yakubu said the commission received more than 53,000 objections to the register, after which the ineligible voters were removed.

He stated, “After the cleaning-up of the data from the last continuous voter registration exercise, 9,518,188 new voters were added to the previous register, resulting in the preliminary register of 93,522,272, which was presented to Nigerians for claims and objections as required by law.

“At the end of the period for claims and objections by citizens, the commission received 53,264 objections from Nigerians to the prevalence of ineligible persons on the register by age, citizenship, or death. These names have been verified and removed from the register.”

According to the figures released by the commission, the North-West geopolitical zone has the highest number of registered voters with 22,255,562.

As of the 2019 elections, the North-West had 20.15m voters. However, the latest report released by INEC showed that over 2m new voters registered during the recently concluded continuous voter registration.

The South-West, which in 2019 had 16,292,212 registered voters, now has 17,958,966, having added 1,666,754 new registered voters.

The North-Central, which had 13,366,070 registered voters in 2019, now has 15,363,731.

The electoral body figures also show that the South-South has 14,440,714 registered voters. The region boasted 12,841,279 registered voters in 2019.

On the other hand, the North-East currently has 12,542,429 up from 11,289, 293 voters it had in 2019 while the South-East has 10,907,606 up from 10,057,130 registered voters it had in 2019.

By gender, men surprisingly dominate the voter register at 49,054,162 (52.5 per cent) while the figure of female voters stands at 44,414,846 (47.5 per cent).

January 9, 2023 Akpabio Makes Final Cut, as INEC Releases Presidential and National Assembly Canditates List
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Akpabio Makes Final Cut, as INEC Releases Presidential and National Assembly Canditates List

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the final list of presidential and National Assembly candidates of all political parties contesting the February 25 Presidential and National assembly elections.

The final list of candidates for national elections (presidential, senatorial and federal constituencies) was pursuant to section 32(1) of the Electoral Act 2022 and item 8 of the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 General Election.
The publication of the full names and addresses of all nominated candidates followed the conduct of primaries and completion of the nomination exercise by political parties’.

INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Chairman, Voter Education, Festus Okoye, had earlier said validly nominated candidates had the opportunity to voluntarily withdraw their candidature by notice in writing and personally deliver such notices to the political parties that nominated them for the election.

The list contained the names of Senator Godswill Akoabio from Akwa Ibom state, Senator Peter Nwaobishi of Delta State as well as Bashir Machina, who replaced the senate president, Ahmed Lawan.

January 7, 2023 CBN Stops Banks from Over-The-Counter Withdrawal of New Notes, Orders Banks to Load ATMs.
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CBN Stops Banks from Over-The-Counter Withdrawal of New Notes, Orders Banks to Load ATMs.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has directed banks to load their Automated Teller Machines with only new notes to ensure that the currency circulates across the nation ahead of the January 31, 2023, deadline when the old notes will no longer be legal tender.

CBN also ordered Deposit Money Banks not to pay customers making over-the-counter withdrawals of new naira notes again.

This was contained in a memo issued to all the branch managers to enforce the CBN order, which takes effect immediately.

The memo, which was titled., ‘Urgent update on currency redesign’ and signed by the Group Head, Retail Operation, stated, “The CBN has mandated that we immediately stop the Over-the-Counter payment of the new N200, N500 and N,1000 currency. Instead, all new notes should be loaded into the ATMs for customer withdrawals.

“This is effective immediately please,”

It was learnt that as of Friday, the banks had not been able to comply with the directive as they complained of inadequate supply of the new notes, prompting them to load their ATMs with the old notes.

Bankers have complained that the new notes were in short supply, hence hence the decision to load a mixture of the old and new N1,000 and N500 notes in the ATMs for customers to withdraw.

However, sources in the CBN, confirmed that the apex bank indeed issued the directive to the banks.

He explained, “From this weekend, new notes will be available for disbursement to bank customers. We are pushing the N1,000 and N500 notes through the ATMs for now. The N200 will be available later.

“The aim is to check inflation and currency abuse. A research was conducted and it showed that the demand for the N1,000 and N500 is higher, hence the decision to start with them.”

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