pdpchangeapc:


You are an illiterate already. Is it his duty to pay teachers salary?

you are an illiterate for nt knowing that a senator is part of the FG. he should help his constituency first.

seunmsg:
Illiterate senator talking rubbish and thinking he's making common sense. He just goes about criticising everything just for the sake of criticising.

Primary education and paying schools teachers is strictly the responsibilities of state and local governments. Federal government is only supporting the efforts of the state government with the feeding program by ensuring school children are properly fed before classes. Students will never learn well when they are hungry so, there is nothing bad in federal governments plan.

Paying teachers promptly is good but not the major solution to the problem in the education sector. Most of the primary school teachers in rural states are not even qualified to teach and like the saying goes, 'you can't give what you don't have'. We saw the reactions of teachers in Ekiti and Edo state when the government wanted to administer competency test on them, they revolted and even voted out the Fayemi government in Ekiti and Edo state had to cancel the plan. What we should do now is for states to sieve the list of their teachers, sack the poor ones, invest massively in training the good ones and bring in fresh graduates just like the federal government is proposing with its plan to employ 500,000 teachers.

What did you smoke........... Your far away come back this is not all about buhari Oky. Haters club

Elosky20:

wailer

proudly wailing hope u are proudly zombie!

fabre4:




understand a post before you comment you that is a literate doesn't know the meaning of criticism he isn't against the federal government policy he is suggesting that payment of teachers should be the first priority. Anybody would see that he has a point unless you have a personal beef with him.

He is a federal senator with power and influence at the federal level to stand on the floor of the senate, argue his in support of better pay for teachers, propose and pass bills if he's really concerned about teachers welfare and better school grade for our children instead of sitting on twitter like a damn lazy coward everyday, crying and moaning dumb and unintelligent rubbish.

Twitter is not the senate floor and he can not help teachers or our school children on twitter, he knows his way to the senate floor.

Teachers salary and helping out our poor children are 2 different issues.

tuniski:
proudly wailing hope u are proudly zombie!

am nt a wailer or a zombie like you, am a nigerian

shala01:

Why are u trying so hard not to be stupid? Do u know any govertment school where the teachers earns above 100k?? Even a leve 12 officers earn just about hundred k. the few ones who are house masters/mistress connive with store keepers to argument their earnings.

Your stupidity know no bounds . Here you are trying to seem to make sense like your common sense nonsense senator. If a level 12 officer earns 100k after deductions then his real salary is not less than 115k. If you have uncles or even father that connive with store keepers to steal materials not every teacher does. Gone are those days you refer to ,teachers in government employ are paid well commesurate with what they do. A man works for 6hrs 5day week and earn 100k with other benefits like leave allowance,bonus on exam supervision, bonus on ecam marking and above all extra lessons and you think that is not good enough? When people work 8hrs 6day for far less.

APC hate this man simply because he speaks the harsh truth

the truth they say is always bitter, only those who are willing to grow will swallow it's bitter pills. Ben Bruce did hit the nail on the head. this an absolute waste of funds and another avenue to loot us in the name of feeding. that huge feeding bill should be invested in redeveloping our primary and secondary education to resursitate it from its current comatose state. And moreover what message are we sending to this small ones growing up? That they should spend on their stomach instead of developing their minds.

Ben Murray Bruce Throws Pool Side Graduation Party for Son

Senator Elect-Ben Murray Bruce Throws Pool Side Graduation Party for Son, ?Jared? at His Beverly Hills Mansion & Was Honored by Nollywood Producers Guild of America!

Last Saturday in Beverly Hills, California, Senator-elect and Silverbird Group Chairman, Ben Murray-Bruce was honored by the Nollywood Producers Guild of America with an Honorary Lifetime Membership of the Guild as a recognition of his support and contribution to the growth of the Nollywood film Industry and African Cinema as a whole. Mr. Murray-Bruce was in the United States for his son, Jared, who graduated with a B.A. in Communication from Loyola Marymount University.

The proud father threw a pool party for his son at his Beverly Hills home with close friends and family members. It was there that the Publicity Secretary of Nollywood Producers Guild of America, filmmaker Pascal Atuma and another member and filmmaker, Jeta Amata presented him with the award on behalf of the Guild?s President Mr. Oliver Mbamara Esq. and the entire members of the guild. The President of the guild, Mr. Oliver Mbamara in a video message congratulated the Senator-elect for his immense support of the Nigerian Film Industry and urged him to continue in his stride.

Mr. Pascal Atuma in presenting the award said, ?My Honorable boss, your senate seat is for the representation of two groups, the Bayelsa people that elected you and the entire Nollywood Film Industry. So please always carry this on your shoulder. You are now our supreme voice with a direct, God given connection to the new administration. We already know that you will represent us very well.?

Jeta Amata added, ?It is a blessing for the entire Nollywood Industry that we are now represented at the senate level. We have one of our own in-house and in the policy making department. There couldn?t be a better time and season for Nollywood than this. I recently mentioned to the Honorable Senator about the problem of piracy with one of my movies and he said, ?Come and see me when I am in office and I will see what I can do about this piracy problem.? I cannot tell you how hopeful I am that we have someone in government who is willing to look into this matter. Thank you so much.?

The new Senator with his beautiful wife, Mrs. Evelyn by his side, thanked the guild members for the honor and promised to do everything possible, within reason, to make sure that Nollywood and Nigeria as a whole benefits from his involvement in government. He went on to congratulate his son Jared by saying,

?As you can see, my son Jared just made me a very proud father and I am very, very happy and proud of you son.?

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The hypocrite stashed his own children in the best schools money can buy in the USA, living in mansions, enjoying like the rich and famous, eating the best food in the world, but he's here worried about ordinary biscuit for poor Nigerian school children.

How heartless can some of these unfortunate leaders be..

The problem we have wit many people here that we do not reali look at issues with a fish-eyed view. Instead people have been separated along PDP and APC divides..
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.Can this biscuits giving be sustained?
.Are the teachers welfare also considered?
.can this reali solve the decay in the education sector?

Even as the idea is not bad, but then, investing in sanitizing the educational sector is an even a better plan that would eventually pay off in the future.

sparrowkid:
I thought this distinguished Tweenator said he wanted to make commonsense. Was he not the one encouraging us to patronize made in aba products some days ago? Has he forgotten that that biscuit they are talking about is not just ordinary one that can just be picked in the market? Infact that biscuit is a product of years of research in FIIRO to correct malnutrition in children. It's a case of using a stone to kill two birds - 1) improves nutritional values of food in children and 2) support the local industry and farmers by giving it to NASCO to produce.

So, distinguished Tweenator, that biscuit is solving so many problems at a time:

It is correcting malnutrition in our children;
It will solve the problem of low enrollment in basic education;
It will provide direct and indirect jobs for our teeming youth;
It will give impetus to agric sector developments because of the value chain involved in its production;
It will help revive some of our ailing industries in general and beverage in particular; and
It will help boost our local production as against sourcing that biscuit from abroad.

Sometimes our distinguished Tweenator, it is good to take your time to study a particular scheme very well so that you may not end up like one ineffectual buffoon. If this is the type of commonsense that you want to make, I think without doubt, there is a problem at hand. So much for a commonsense by a distinguished Tweenator.

You tried, but you would have made more sense by acknowledging the senators sentiment. All what you listed will not be achievable if the government fail to treat teachers well. This is practical and i have witnessed more than two situations where teacher eats the food taken to school by the student. Put yourself in that situation. Imagine you are owed 4, 6 months salary by the government and the same government is now giving you food to deliver to students, what will happen to the food?

woodcook:


A times the way you people twist things just to fed into your agenda of defending the present administration is alarming. The truth is Nigeria economy and the present policies being implemented will not affect you differently because you choose to support it even when it is obvious that such policy is flawed.

Yes it is the responsibility of the state and local government to pay primary school teachers, but if I remember correctly the building block of this present administration is 'change' which means we have to do what is right for our country by doing things differently. Don't you think that given the present situation of our education system that the federal government should put that money towards improving the welfare of teachers at the primary school level irrespective of whose responsibility it is? Because right now we are all fighting hard to save our sinking country it does not matter anymore whose fault it is it is now a collective effort to rebuild our nation. Mind you, am not saying that FG should take over payment of primary school teachers salaries but the FG could create an incentive at the federal level that helps better the life of primary school teacher all over Nigeria.


You made mention of food and poor nutrition, for one, biscuit is never and will never be a replacement for proper diet. Let even assume that NASCO isn't going to supple biscuit to the pupil what else are they going to supply if not processed food. Processed food when the world is doing everything within their power to move away from feeding their student process food.


Please I understand that you are a big fan of the present administration and its policies but the truth is you and people like you are not doing PMB any good with your blind support. The best you can do for him is to ensure he has sound policies by looking at his policies with an unbiased mind and critic it objectively so that by the end of his tenure he would have achieved that which he set out to achieve.

intelligent response. the problem I have with this administration is its shallow mindedness and their penchant for playing to the gallery instead of doing the real thing. Good governance is not rocket science, is about putting the nation first and doing everything to serve the interest of the nation. but Nigerians and our politicians make good governance look like an impossibility that will only require the IQ of God to achieve.

arresa:




He is a federal senator with power and influence at the federal level to stand on the floor of the senate, argue his in support of better pay for teachers, propose and pass bills if he's really concerned about teachers welfare and better school grade for our children instead of sitting on twitter like a damn lazy coward everyday, crying and moaning dumb and unintelligent rubbish.

Twitter is not the senate floor and he can not help teachers or our school children on twitter, he knows his way to the senate floor.

Teachers salary and helping out our poor children are 2 different issues.

federal government policies are different from laws he is a law maker not an Adviser to the federal government......secondly what he is doing is called reorientation which is what Nigeria needs



when I was in secondary school we were given food in schools I could remember some of my mates only came to school for the food but weren't interested in the education also our teachers always hijacked it I used to be angry then but no more while I know human beings are insatiable teachers are really suffering, if government is going to owe any body it will be the teachers. we give them the lowest salary but give them the heaviest task if you have taught in a government school before esp. a primary skl you will understand and am not a teacher just a grateful ex student

Elosky20:

are u in primary sch. if no u are nt benefiting frm it, We should try it first if it does nt work, we stop it

Work what? What is the bottom line? That's still my question but you have not answered me. Bros, it is totally a senseless programme together with the N5k for 1m. I'm forced to start asking, who are the think tanks of the present admin?

pdpchangeapc:


[b]You tried, but you would have made more sense by acknowledging the senators sentiment. [/b]All what you listed will not be achievable if the government fail to treat teachers well. This is practical and i have witnessed more than two situations where teacher eats the food taken to school by the student. Put yourself in that situation. Imagine you are owed 4, 6 months salary by the government and the same government is now giving you food to deliver to students, what will happen to the food?

Helping school children and teachers salaries are 2 different and separate issues and he's free to argue about teacher's salaries, but not on the back of poor Nigerian school children or taking food away from their mouth.

The senate floor is where the people of Nigeria voted for him to go and fight for them to address their issues, not siting on twitter rambling unintelligent rubbish everyday.

How many motions and teachers welfare bills have been proposed, debated or sanctioned by this senator on the senate floor?
ZERO.


Many of these kids don't even know where their next meal is coming from, but the twitter senators children in Sunny Southern California have access to the best food and nutrition money can buy..

It's called poor leadership and hypocrisy..

Elosky20:

you are an illiterate for nt knowing that a senator is part of the FG. he should help his constituency first.

Didn't he give half of his clothing allowance to widows? Didnt he do other works to help his people?

You are so foolish and ignorant it isn't even funny. He is one senator, with one vote and a junior senator at that, yet you expect him to play the role of Minister, President, etc..

abeg buscuit illeterate get sense..

goodgate:
NO!The Government will pay Nasco to supply directly to Schools daily, it won't have to pass through the teachers.

Continue to fool yourself. so, people will just come to school environment, enter classrooms and start distributing biscuits to students abi? Its obvious you have no idea how things are run in a school system.
Another angle is that government should be careful so that their enemy or opposition will not use that program against them. It reminds me of Akala regime in Oyo state when parents started running to schools to pick their children because of insinuations that some students ate Indomie akala sent to schools and they died.
Personally, i still don't believe that is what we need to improve the standard of our primary education.

Elosky20:

am nt a wailer or a zombie like you, am a nigerian

u are zombie! Both wailers and zombies are nigerians!! Abi u wan lie as in lying liars!

My brother, look u said what exactly is on my mind.

LordAdam:
My own is not all this one sef.

My own is how them jor deceive all these SW people when claim say dem dey sophisticated. So na #10 biscuit them 1 use tk feed school children.

Even for akara school, mumsi dem dey hand #10 for biscuit to all these smallie them. This government na SCAM!!!

Now, them say na only 1m extremely poor people them one pay 5k. We know say the region where extremely poor people dey na North.

So Buhari wan share 5k for 1m northerners then share #10 biscuit for school children with N500 billion.

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PS: Before you quote me for being tribalistic, we know if it was left to northerners alone, Buhari for lose for the fourth time. APC supporters in SS/SE don't count, all of us follow dey share the 5% tag. Plus, every region have their Judases.

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-Lord

fallout87:


Didn't he give half of his clothing allowance to widows? Didnt he do other works to help his people?

You are so foolish and ignorant it isn't even funny. He is one senator, with one vote and a junior senator at that, yet you expect him to play the role of Minister, President, etc..

abeg buscuit illeterate get sense..

what is biscuit illetrate? its quite unfortunate u got nothing to contribute, did u recieve part of the money he shared. or did u collect bribe frm him to insult others with ur illterate infested opinion.

fabre4:







federal government policies are different from laws he is a law maker not an Adviser to the federal government......secondly what he is doing is called reorientation which is what Nigeria needs



when I was in secondary school we were given food in schools I could remember some of my mates only came to school for the food but weren't interested in the education also our teachers always hijacked it I used to be angry then but no more while I know human beings are insatiable teachers are really suffering, if government is going to owe any body it will be the teachers. we give them the lowest salary but give them the heaviest task if you have thought in a government school before esp. a primary skl you will understand and am not a teacher just a grateful ex student

Teacher's salary and ordinary biscuit for school children are separate issues and you don't have to take biscuits away from school children to help teachers.


He can sit on the senate floor to address issues facing Nigerians just like his colleagues in the senate instead of acting like a coward on twitter and he doesn't have to be a presidential adviser to argue in favor of our teachers on the senate floor.

And going by your logic, if he's not a presidential adviser, why is he advising and crying over federal policies?

Makes no sense..

onyibajoe:
Work what? What is the bottom line? That's still my question but you have not answered me. Bros, it is totally a senseless programme together with the N5k for 1m. I'm forced to start asking, who are the think tanks of the present admin?

change is constant it does nt start in a day, we have to try it first.

how do people reconcile the fact that during the time when Nigeria produced her best students Nigeria was poorer and now despite our richness we produce poor students. Nasco biscuit is a snack and I have eaten biscuit all my life so I can authoritatively say its nutritional value is negligible so instead of giving them biscuits why not
1 Build a cafeteria where pupils can get food at a very low and subsidised fee

Secondly pay teachers well and on time so as to avoid hijacking of food cause they too have families to feed


Thirdly, assign the teachers inspectors to get feed back from the students by anonymous questionnaires so as to know the progress as well as its impact on the students or pupils.

That's if the aim is to stop malnutrition.

tuniski:
u are zombie! Both wailers and zombies are nigerians!! Abi u wan lie as in lying liars!

are u a lying liar.

goodgate:
NO!The Government will pay Nasco to supply directly to Schools daily, it won't have to pass through the teachers.

And you think the head teacher or teachers wouldn't smuggle some biscuits? This is Nigeria not abroad oh

Elosky20:
your salary and allowances can pay 900 teachers comfortably why nt pay them. or stop complaining

Zombie. He is speaking for the masses and you are here talking trash

Rolings:


This is the worst of this man' s common sense nonsense, teachers are already well paid , Obasanjo made sure of that . You need to go to any government school and see how their car park compete with that of bankers . I even thought the man will talk if teacher training. Infrastructure and learning aids. Your common sense nonsense is now just noise from a biased opposition

That was before this government came to power. Its not that teachers are well paid but they are people that have learnt how to use their limited resources well. Have you asked how it was possible for teachers to buy cars and build houses. First reason is that teaching is a profession dominated by women, so more than 60% of those cars you see belongs to women in that profession which is made possible by their husbands in other noble profession. Second reason is that majority of them are on loan, you hardly see a teacher who is not oweing bank or cooperative loan and at the end of the month they go home with very small salary because their debt has been deducted by their banks or cooperative. And now no bank is giving out loans to them again since the inception of this government because of non-payment of salary, the same with cooperatves cos many of them are having difficulties with money. it is not possible to ride a good car, build a house from their salaries if they dont take loans. My junior brother is a teacher in oyo state and he is on level 12 (a level he has been since 2009 because oyo state refused to promote them) and he earns less than 85k having worked for 16 years. So, how are they well paid? And even the last salary paid by the state was october 2015. The government has only paid leave bonus of November 2014. This is a terrain i know much about. I was surprised the day i saw my brothers salary. 16 years in service as a graduate and you earn that ridiculous amount. Those are things i think government should try to correct before embarking on feeding the students.
I am using Oyo State as an example in this response

djkirkoo2:
Zombie. He is speaking for the masses and you are here talking trash

zombie must you reply.

Elosky20:

and only a PDP politically minded person will quote my post

hahahhahaahwhwhwwhwhahahahah

queenst:
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Lol @ biscuit illiterates. He is evidently referring to the recent report that the Federal Government signed a memorandum of understanding with NASCO Foods Limited, Jos for commercial production of high nutrient dencity special biscuits for the national school feeding programme.
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https://twitter.com/benmurraybruce/status/697296294725857280

Undiluted truth...We Nigerians are biggest culprits when it comes to discarding the truth,we always discard the words and attack the speaker,at this point in our underdeveloped country,we need the words more than the individual,as much as I don't like Ben,I won't discard some sensible words of his cos they could be useful

Mr "common sense" don open mouth again oooo. B4 we start arguing if what he said makes sense or not, I want to disagree with the statement that teachers are not well paid as someone said. Go to Lagos state n c d kind of cars these teachers drive to school, then tell me if a poor man drives such. I'm serving in Nasarawa n I can boldly tell u that teachers r being paid very very well.... Infact in my PPA, I have teachers earning 150k n above n our principal earns about 300k per month... Aside payments for marking WAEC N NECO n invigilation n science teachers that teach in private schools also; new teachers (B.Sc) earn between 60-70 depending on subject (science teachers earn more) n HND earn 50k for starters....... Note this z Nasarawa where students r compelled to come to school through free education n d main teaching z done by corpers n student teachers (TP)................. Bottom line of this jargon I wrote z, he might b right to criticise d sharing of biscuits to the students but shouldn't hide under d shadow of 'because of poor teachers salary' cos d reward of teachers starts here on earth in Nigeria........ #EXCEPT U R TALKING OF OYO OR ONE OF THOSE BACKWARD STATES#