talktimi:
lets be fair to him, this toutish aspect of him is a recent phenomena. I'm really surprised that an enlightened man like him would be speaking this way

What is wrong with what Fashola said? Let's debate.

Billyonaire:

I am proud of you. You are so smart, you carried out your little research in your little world and come to conclusion that 99.999% of rich people in Nigeria are crooks. Clap for yourself little man. I do not want to argue with you on that. I am sure Nairalanders already know your mental state judging you by that analogy.
Going back to GEJ and exchange rate. The Feds used our foreign reserve when the Brent Crude prices fell to cushion the effect on the economy and the exchange rate due to marginal fluctuation differences in the Exim indices, but we accused the Feds of depleting our foreign reserves. The Federal Government has stop using our Foreign Reserves to regulate the rate. So lets face it now. Dangote has lost half of his fortune. That's the reality we face in an Oil dependent economy. Now, we are facing the reality of the fall in crude price. Let's do the maths, empty head. When brent crude was 120 pb, Naira was 160 to a dollar, so now the brent crude price is 56dpb then you should expect (160 x 2.7 ) = (432 naira to a dollar)to be the exchange rate but the government is still able to control it to 225 at the moment.
Give respect to billionaires.

Firstly I am not an empty head so I reject that description. Maybe you have a point in that 99.999% of rich people in Nigeria are not crooks, maybe the figure is closer to 99.1% okay I stand corrected -if you read between the lines. Your response did not surprise me, Nigeria is the standard for you, your benchmark. I know people whose exposure is limited to Nigeria and you are one of them (This is not about travelling abroad spending a few weeks in New York or London, this is about interaction and being a part of a system that works and develops, prospers a nation and its people). Rogues or "million or Billion"aires who march up and down the Nigerian landscape are not known for their contribution to economy and industry (we have none) in the country, but only for "having money"

Let GEJ and his voodoo economic team come out and tell Nigerian why we are here and why the largest "fictitious" economy in the Africa cannot feed its children, women, the old and other vulnerable people in society, while people like "Billyonaire" transverse the landscape bringing mayhem, instability, systemic failure, poverty, hunger, despair and hopelessness. I have seen few "Billionaires" in Nigeria die needlessly when they face simple health emergencies.

You mentioned Dangote losing a portion of his wealth. What about the millions of hard working men and women in society whose purchasing power and savings have just been decimated? And yet it appears there is no government running the country.

The purpose of life is not to come and accumulate unnecessary and needless wealth.

If you dont know, everything is GEJ's fault - why? because he is the president and the welfare and economic security of 170m people lies with him. But this clueless ignoramus? God help us.

popoolay:
I respect Fashola a lot. But these days, it's like the man has lost his sense of reasoning and it's like his thinking faculty is being beclouded so as to score some political cheap points. What Fashola did not realize with this comment of his is that he is indirectly casting an aspersion on the candidacy of Buhari and some of the Northern political leaders in APC that they have not done enough to see to the educational needs of the Almajiri's in their respective domain. We must give kudos to the effort made by GEJ's administration for doing this. Let APC engage in issue base campaign and stop looking for cheap popularity.

Do you even know what "issue based campaign" is? Tell me what can be more issue based than this?

MKO4ever:


We have seen how fashola managed education in lagos, up till now, there are still schools where children sit under the trees in lagos

#GratiaeoShowYourCertificate!!!

Please prove your point at least pictures,or even a video clips will go a long way.

Source ? abi na hear say

Segeggs:
Fashola attacks with facts. @bold...you must have attended an almajiri school where pupils sit on the floor while their federal government goes about boasting as it's an incredible achievement southwest people are very sophisticated in the sense that they see through falsehood, unlike you "azikiwe" slaveswhat we are saying is that he should stop boasting about it as if it's something unique he did. With all the resources at his disposal, it's a mere school where kids sit on the floor he's basing his campaign on can you compare the above pictures with the picture of amaechi's school below? www.nairaland.com/attachments/2204470_tl_jpegb89a925f5325a7d7309210447889112d

You are so daaaafffffffftttttttt. You are the biggest mumu i've come across on NL. I wonder if you have achieve anything in life. Only a failure like you will rubbish the effort of another. Ameachi picture that was deliberately packaged to support a point. Between you and I, tell me that public school with such facility as in that picture anywhere in Nigeria. I believe you schooled in Nigeria, did you go to that kind of school. You are a mumu o. They need to check your brain, Foolish fellow!

xhamel89:


You are so daaaafffffffftttttttt. You are the biggest mumu i've come across on NL. I wonder if you have achieve anything in life. Only a failure like you will rubbish the effort of another. Ameachi picture that was deliberately packaged to support a point. Between you and I, tell me that public school with such facility as in that picture anywhere in Nigeria. I believe you schooled in Nigeria, did you go to that kind of school. You are a mumu o. They need to check your brain, Foolish fellow!

Guy calm down ooooo!!

Fashola I use to see you as something but you u have shown me u are something. Nawa o,so As dis children were roaming d.street before better abi. Must dey work in multinational companies, those with msc and all that, are they in multinational companies? D thing is let them have common sense dat even if they go into trading, they will do well.

Abeg the Amechi picture is camouflage. Is called "K W S" ke ewe si..............

Is fashola high? When did Almajiri school become university that he should be talking competitiveness?
Please someone should this man the aim of that school is to get those children to learn to read and write not to work in oil company. Did he read his own law with primary school cert?

reborn1:


As usual, you resort to attacking the Yorubas over Fasola issue. You yeeboes are just foolish and cursed esp you. You can always make your point without insulting a whole tribe, your senile father should be shot for giving birth to a cursed child like you. Pathetic.

Wow! You accused him of insulting your people and you turned around and did exactly the same thing you castigated him for. Hmmm!

At least an APC member don admit say jona do something that northern leader neva do

Fashola:I can see dat ur apc of a tin is not coming to help nigeria rada der are coming to colect ur share of the luts

kunle75:


Sorry sir,can you please expatiate more on your argument?

Are you saying,the govt shld because of BH ideaology tailored her decision around the enymies agitation?

pls i just dnt get it?

What the Govs is simply saying is that if they finish from the school how do dey stand the chance gainful employment side by side their contemporary who graduate from secular school?

Please tell me more sir

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Almajiri schools are meant to combine elements of Western education with their typical Madrasa education in a controlled environment.

Should we leave impressionable youngsters at the mercy of radical clerics to fill their minds with hate for every moderate person including fellow Muslims?
1.4 million people did last JAMB, should people not aspire because we don't have 1.4 million places in uni/poly/monotechnics? Or because all graduates cannot get Shell BP jobs upon graduation?

Did any other president/HoS proffer a better solution to Almajiri issue since 1960?

In all prosperous countries worldwide, are all kids not compulsorily in school up to age of 14 to 16? Failure of previous governments contributed to the huge population Boko can recruit from. Should we not start doing something to prevent similar stuff, 20 years from now?

Or you think it should be all about fire brigade approach of here & now?

Nawa o. It's really a shame that this APC politicians are up to no good for the country. They just don't want to acknowledge Jonathan's efforts in anyway. They keep giving stupid excuses all the time. Jonathan's regime has done more to the north than any northerner has ever done. But yet, they're so ungrateful and they keep hating him. They hated him even before he became a president for no reason. APC keeps blaming GEJ for everything. They've never ever commended anything good that he has done. They blamed and accused him for bringing boko haram to Nigeria, they blamed him for building almajiri schools and taking them off the streets, shockingly they also blamed him for the robbery that happened yesterday in Lagos. That is pure wickedness and not politics. I'm sick and tired of their sh*t. At least no matter the differences, learn to appreciate along with your criticism. Now we know so clearly who is clueless and senseless.

This is a sure indication that APC can't do any good for our dear country Nigeria.

VOTE Wisely

theoctopus:
The first and most important gain of basic education is not skills acquisition. Non of us acquired any skill in primary school.

the most important gain is to give the child a basic foundation for life. to open their minds to modern society and give them the ability to reason independently and rationally. Even boko haram knows this that is why they hate it. Since Fashola doesnt know this, then its sad to say he is an olodo

The problem here with many of you is reading and comprehension . The question is, what's next for them after the almajiri education? What part of our socio economic existence in Nigeria employs the products of almajiri education and as what to do what. ?

Btw, what ever college or university education you get is called skill. Skills is not limited to vocational education.

Eluwilussit:


Wow! You accused him of insulting your people and you turned around and did exactly the same thing you castigated him for. Hmmm!

The guy is fond of saying jackshit about Yoruba for every little thing, even when a thread is about something else he will just find a way to throw jabs at a whole tribe. I just have to give it to him as well.

CyberWolf:
GEJ builds school, problem..GEJ no build school,problem...What do you people really want? ..So it's better the way those children are roaming the streets of northern Nigeria ..Nawa oooo

I follow you tire for some comments sha. People and their opinions.

[quote author=macpetrus post=31570082]Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, says the Almajiri schools being established by the Peoples Democratic Party-led Federal Government in the northern part of the country have no feasible end gains.

Fashola said this at an event on Thursday ─ Support Our Schools Breakfast Meeting with the Governor─ held at the City Hall on the Lagos Island.

The governor explained that the purpose of training someone was for the person to be able to use the knowledge gained and the skills acquired to his benefit and the good of society.

He said that could not be said of the Almajiri schools as they had no competitive advantage for the graduates.

He said, “If you train people to acquire certain skills, you must develop avenue where the skills will be useful and that will be the end gain. For instance, graduates of our technical and vocational colleges will become our major contractors.

“And so, it worries me, what is the end gain of products of the Almajiri schools? Will you put your child there? Will a company looking through its job appraisal consider such graduates from Almajiri schools? What chance will the product of the Almajiri schools have working for multinational companies? Are we giving the children a chance when we segregate them into Almajiri schools? Think about it.”

Fashola said as part of measures to encourage vocational and technical education in the state, his administration had issued over 600 contracts as annual maintenance projects of Lagos schools, adding that graduates of the state’s technical schools were the main beneficiaries.

“We have issued maintenance contract to all our schools. We have issued about 600 contracts of annual maintenance of our schools and they ranged between N2m to N4m per annum. Our graduates in the technical and vocational colleges are the substantial beneficiaries of the contracts. We now want to ensure that every school in Lagos has regular and uninterrupted power supply,” he added.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye had expressed government’s gratitude to organisations that embraced the ‘Support our school’ initiative, saying the support had contributed to the success of the Fashola’s administration in the educational sector.

they wanted an almajiri school n now they have it... what is this dude saying... in Nigeria just everybody is talking.. right or wrong no one cares...

Fashola is trying to say the almajiri schools are below standard ...how many of u on nairaland can put yur child in dat almajiris school?

Segeggs:
we appreciate the efforts of a good government, but when a government with resources larger than imagination feeds its elephant sized citizens as if they are ants, then we all raise alarm. Almajiri schools is below what a Federal government should build or even boast about with all its resources.

YOUR COMMENT SHOWS YOU ARE OUTRIGHTLY IGNORANCE OF WHAT YOU ARE ARGUING ABOUT, NIGERIA IS OPERATING 3TIERS OF GOVERNMENT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT, STATE GOVERNMENT AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THE LAWS THAT ESTABLISHED THESE 3 TIERS GOVERNMENT PLACES ELEMENTRY EDUCATION UNDER STATE GOVERNMENT, SO WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT IS DOING AS FAR AS THESE ALMAJIRIS EDUCATION IS CONCERN IS THE SOLE RESPONSILITIES OF NORTHERN STATE GOVERNMENTS....

Association of passed creminals( APC) u people are still as usual:gej carry gooooooooooooo --------------------------2019

Segeggs:
what he's saying is that the quality of the schools are far below what can empower an individual towards achieving anything meaningful in life. As for your talk on 9 universities, pls post pictures of the universities or keep quiet cos they only exist on newspapers. Check their shoddy websites for confirmation.

U see what APC has done to u. For ur information my friend is a lecturer in one of those schools

Sir please retrieve your statement,i personal have respect and love for you and I would have voted for you if APC were fair with in presidential a primaries.everybody is above mjstake.

Volksfuhrer:


Fashola goofed big time! Perhaps he was playing mediocre politics, I'm nevertheless still a fan of his.

Your suggestion that Fashola hates the progress of other ethnic groups is quite unnecessary, because it's obviously not true.

However, the truth must be said: Fashola really messed up. What in God's name was he trying to prove?(!)

fashola is talking sense. Give them UBE and not almajiri sch. Give them standard +qualitative foundation. Don't breed an educated illetrates 4d future. A little learning they say is DANGEROUS.

ADUBA1:
U see what APC has done to u. For ur information my friend is a lecturer in one of those schools

post pictures of your friend lecturing in the school or shut up.

theoctopus:
The first and most important gain of basic education is not skills acquisition. Non of us acquired any skill in primary school.

the most important gain is to give the child a basic foundation for life. to open their minds to modern society and give them the ability to reason independently and rationally. Even boko haram knows this that is why they hate it. Since Fashola doesnt know this, then its sad to say he is an olodo

best post ever....fashola has lost it completely...but why won't he say that in the first place...these guys have over time associated with buhari,so how would he(fashola) understand the importance of basic education anymore..

aresa:


The problem here with many of you is reading and comprehension . The question is, what's next for them after the almajiri education? What part of our socio economic existence in Nigeria employs the products of almajiri education and as what to do what. ?

Btw, what ever college or university education you get is called skill. Skills is not limited to vocational education.

who told you almajiri is higher institution? Its primary education mixed with islamic/arabic... With that they can gain admission in higher institution then you can talk of employment. Smh

This Governor use to be very responsible in making comments but it seems he is beginning to lose it lately.

I pray this election comes and go quickly so Fashola doesn't loose his mind completely on time lag. For pete sake, all he needs do is to go to a core north and see the practical definition of a typical almajiri boy

I have been observing and noting fashola's comments lately,and i must say he's beginning to lose it big time. He should leave the real politiking to the politicians cos he isnt one. He seems to talk before thinking things through these days just cos he wants to promote apc at the expense of his reputation. Almajiri schools were targeted at a particular set of children that have been disadvantaged over the years leading to them being used to cause violence cos of their ignorance. If getting them to school to be refined is the only thing achieved,then its worth commending. When your house is on fire,you direct all your efforts at quenching it first before any other considerations,same applies here,lets get them out of their ignorance then we would know what we would do with them when we get to that bridge.

Here is one of fasholas school. This school is located in Agungi Lekki Area. A supposed rich peoples environenviron. How can a man whose house is not in perfect order run down another just for vane sayings. So he would rather have the almajiria roaming the streets and later trained to be bokos then give them a school?. No wonder even under his nose where education is highly valued some kids attend this kind of school.
Smh

Izontubo:
best post ever....fashola has lost it completely...but why won't he say that in the first place...these guys have over time associated with buhari,so how would he(fashola) understand the importance of basic education anymore..

Azonto (or whatever you call yourself) can you send your first son to Almajiri school?