Education

Ekiti Government Establishes Five New Secondary Schools

By Web News 2528

Ekiti State Government has established five new public secondary schools as part of efforts to improve access to standard education in the state.

This followed the recent handing over of missionary secondary schools to the owners.

Among the missionary schools handed over to their owners, are Christ’s Boys and Girls schools, Mary Immaculate, all in Ado Ekiti, Annunciation Secondary School, Ikere-Ekiti as well as Baptist Girls School, Ifaki-Ekiti which are now under the control of Anglican, Catholic and Baptist Churches.

Ekiti State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Bimpe Aderiye, visited the new public schools where academic activities have commenced.

She explained that the new schools were established to ensure that students were properly accommodated since not all parents could afford the amount being charged by the authorities of the missionary schools.

Dr. Aderiye reiterated the commitment of the Fayemi-led administration to the provision of free, qualitative and compulsory education to all school age children in the state.

The Commissioner listed the new schools as Saint Michael Secondary School, Ifaki-Ekiti; Baptist Secondary School, Ikere Ekiti; Saint Michael Secondary School, Ado Ekiti; Saint Thomas Secondary School, Irona, Ado-Ekiti and Deji Fasuan Model College, Afao Road, Ado-Ekiti.

Ekiti State government had last year established three model colleges in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital while the fourth one Deji Fasuan Model College started academic activities in this new session.

Amos Ogunrinde

Crime

Mother, Pastor, Trade Blame Over Missing 18-Year-Old

By Web News 773

A middle aged mother, Mrs Bukola Ayeni and a Pastor identified as Ola John are trading blames over the whereabouts of an 18-year-old girl, Mariam Rauf who allegedly went missing in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State. 

It was gathered that Mariam who is a student of Baptist Girls School, Osogbo left home on the 29th of March this year without disclosing her destination to anybody. 

However, it was suspected that she has relocated to the eastern part of Nigeria to start a new life and selling herbal medicine. 

The worried mother while narrating the situation to journalists in Osogbo said, said her daughter was bed-wetting which made to seek help from, Pastor John who was introduced to her by a friend.

As part of the curative measure, the pastor said she needed to be sleeping in the church which she agreed with and missing girl spent most of her time in the church while she only came home to dress for school. 

Mrs Ayeni alleged that she informed Pastor John that her daughter had absconded, but said he accused her of victimising the missing girl.

The mother alleged that the pastor was not interested that whether her daughter was found, insisting that the Pastor incited her daughter against her on the grounds that she did not take good care of her.

However, when Newsmen contacted Pastor Ola John, he denied knowledge of the girl’s whereabouts, adding that he had reported the incident to the Oke-Baale Police Station in the state capital.

Pastor John explained that he offered to help her while in trouble, adding that he is also worried like her mother.

As at the time of filing this report, spokesperson of Osun State Police Command, Mrs Yemisi Opalola asked for more time to respond to the issue, when contacted.

Adenitan Akinola