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Ekiti Sends Delegates to Edo to Understudy Edo BEST
As the success story of the Edo BEST initiative continues to resonate across the length and breadth of the country and beyond, the Edo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), recently played host to a delegation from Ekiti State whose objective was to understudy the Edo BEST initiative and its success story in order to replicate same in Ekiti.
The delegation which was led by Mr. Familoni F.A, Director, Science, Technology and Mathematics, Ministry of Education, Ekiti State, were taken on a tour to public primary schools in the State for a first hand assessment of the impact, practicality and effectiveness of Edo BEST. Amongst the schools visited were Adesuwa primary School and Oghobaye Primary School, in Oredo and Ikpoba Okha LGAs respectively.
Welcoming the delegates, the Executive Chairman, Edo SUBEB, Dr. Joan Osa Oviawe, noted that the whole journey began when the Edo State Governor, His Excellency, Godwin Obaseki, decided to re-enact the tenets of basic education in the State in a bid to provide a solid education model for pupils of public primary schools in Edo State.
According to Dr. Oviawe, “The pillars of Edo BEST have helped greatly in improving basic education in the State. The Teacher Professional Development programme has been greatly improved upon as our teachers have been trained in the used of modern teaching techs and also equipped with mobile computer gadgets and smartphones to aid the teaching and learning process. So far, over ten thousand, five hundred (10,500) teachers have been trained in digital pedagogy and other modern teaching techniques with more than 450 education managers trained as well.”
Dr. Oviawe also stressed on the fruitful partnership between the State Government and the communities hosting Edo BEST schools as about 11,628 School Based Management Committee (SBMC) members have been trained so far.
Speaking, a field officer from Ikpoba Okha, Mrs Erhabor Osasumwen who covers 20 schools, stressed that her duty as a Learning and Development Officer involves mentoring and supporting teachers to achieve the desired results. According to Mrs Erhabor, “Through the help of field officers Edo BEST is able to sensitize the community on the need to send their children to school and also attain quality and standards”
Responding, the leader of the delegation, Mr. Familoni F.A., noted that they were satisfied with the level of professionalism displayed by the teachers in public primary schools in Edo State. According to Mr. Familoni, “Even schools in the rural areas have the same Pattern of delivery both in teaching and learning activities”. He emphasized that they are happy to be in Edo State and are willing to replicate Edo BEST in Ekiti State.
The leader of a UBEC TV documentary team, Mr Ossom Ossom, who was privy to be in attendance, stressed that Edo state caught the attention of UBEC, through the success story of Edo BEST. “Edo State was chosen by UBEC to showcase the achievements of UBEC across the 36 States in the country and the FCT as a result of its success story with the Edo BEST scheme”, Mr Ossom noted.
The Edo State Government under the leadership of Governor Godwin Obaseki is advancing and transforming the basic education sub-sector to meet with global standards and over two hundred thousand (200,000) pupils of public primary schools in the State are currently benefiting by this initiative.
Edo BEST provides quality education for every child.
Photo Caption: Delegates from Ekiti with Edo BEST teachers and pupils during the school tour in Edo
WHO investigates possible coronavirus link to infrequent disease in children
Several countries have disclosed cases of children highly-flown by an illness with symptoms similar to Kawasaki’s disease.
The World Health Organization has said it is finding a possible link between coronavirus and a rare inflammatory illness that has ill and killed children in Europe and the United States.
In recent weeks, several countries have disclosed cases of children strike by an inflammatory disease with symptoms similar to those of a rare condition, called Kawasaki’s disease.
“Initial reports hypothesise that this syndrome may be related to COVID-19,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing on Friday.
“It is critical to urgently and carefully characterise this clinical syndrome, to understand causality and to describe treatment interventions.”
“Initial reports hypothesise that this syndrome may be related to COVID-19,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing on Friday.
“It is critical to urgently and carefully characterise this clinical syndrome, to understand causality and to describe treatment interventions.”
*Tedros’s comments after a doctor in France on Friday said a nine-year-old boy there who had tested positive for COVID-19 had died from the syndrome, marking the first such death in the country.*
Close child casualties are being probed in New York and London.
Source___Aljazeera
Abundance of surrogate babies cast away in Ukraine amidst lockdown
Travel limitations prevent foreign parents from picking their babies, with fears quarantine additions could make issues worst
Infants in Ukraine born to surrogate mothers for foreigners are cast away because the country’s borders are closed under coronavirus limitations, preventing parents from the United States, Europe and elsewhere from travelling to collect them.
Ukraine’s human rights ombudswoman has appealed to authorities to find urgent solution to the matter in hand.
“About 100 children are already waiting for their parents in different centres of reproductive medicine. And if quarantine is extended, then it will not be about hundreds, but about thousands,” said Lyudmila Denisova.
It is unsettling that a long border closure will place a burden on clinics and distress the parents.
*The issue attracted wide attention after BioTexCom, the country’s largest surrogate operation, posted a video showing dozens of babies in bassinets arrayed in tight rows in two large rooms of its Hotel Venice where the clinic puts up clients.*
At BioTexCom, a surrogate mother receives between $15,000 and $17,000 for giving birth to a baby.
“Every day I make video calls with my wife for one hour or an hour and a half for her to see the baby,” he said. “It is very difficult.”
“Nurses and medical personnel in this hotel are wonderful. They make my life easier,” he said.
BioTexCom’s video, which was focused to encourage absent parent that their little ones were receiving good care, showed nurses bathing and caressing them and prompt the government into taking immediate action.
“The issue remains unresolved, but we are developing a mechanism to get out of the situation,” said Denisova, who met with foreign ministry representatives on Thursday.
Source___Aljazeera
Thousands of undocumented immigrants to get Italian work sanction
Thousands of undocumented immigrants will now be permitted to apply for a short time stay and work in Italy under an amnesty declaration as the country discovered a $59.6bn stimulus package to protect the economic impact of the coronavirus.
After weeks of discussions marked by political discordance and renunciation threats, the parties in Italy’s coalition government finally stretched out an agreement on Wednesday to approve provisional changes to allow for farm workers and home carers.
As per the decree disclosed on Wednesday, the new residency permits will be valid for six months.
*The changes also seek to legalise irregular work in farms and homes. Martinaro said employers who have irregularly hired either foreign or Italian workers in these sectors would also able to apply to regulate their staff by stipulating a fixed-term employment contract.*
“We have reached an important result,” Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said in a news conference after a cabinet meeting.
“This is a battle of civilisation because at its centre lay people’s dignity, fight against criminal organisations, against caporalato (a system based on the recruitment and exploitation of workers), the immersion of black work and the protection of employers and workers’ health, including the one surrounding them.”
Source___The Point
Draft Constitution to be handed over to the National Assembly in August
As stand in need by the Constitutional Review Commission Act 2018, His Excellency, President Adama Barrow having received the Draft Constitution on 30th March 2020, the Ministry of Justice will issue the national document in the Gazette before the end of May 2020, before it is later presented to the National Assembly in August 2020.
It could be remembered that in June 2018, President Barrow get off the ground a Constitutional Review Commission to take up a review of the 1997 Constitution and to come up with a suggested Draft that will be lay open to a referendum and usher in a Third Republic for The Gambia.
The Office of the President therefore guarantee the public that the due preceding will be followed in building up our democracy.
Source___The Point
Nigeria Records 288 New COVID-19 Cases, Total Infections Now 5,445
Nigeria has recorded 288 new cases of the novel coronavirus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.
In a tweet via its official handle late Friday, the NCDC said 179 new cases had been discovered in Lagos, the country’s hotspot.
In Kaduna, 20 new cases were recorded, 15 each in both Katsina and Jigawa, 13 in Borno, 11 in Ogun, eight in Kano, seven in the FCT, four each in Niger and Ekiti, three each in Oyo, Delta and Bauchi, two in Kwara and one in Edo.
The health agency also noted that the number of recovered cases had jumped from 1,180 on Thursday to 1,320, while the death toll increased by four to 171.
Source___Channels TV
Nigeria President Muhammad Buhari Projects Large Scale Installation Of Housing Solar Systems
Nigeria President Muhammad Buhari Projects Large Scale Installation Of Housing Solar Systems
This is made known a communiqué from the presidency.
In its breifing on Thursday, the presidency make known that President Buhari is on a project to have large scale installation of residential solar systems, making use of mainly local materials.
On the report of the statement signed by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, the President also plans to overcome Nigeria’s delicate health system through the setting up of standard laboratories, intensive care units, and isolation centres.
The communique also noted that the health infrastructure will in due course be reformed for the good of the people, and in readiness for upcoming emergencies.
Source___Channels TV
Messi Has To Win World Cup To Be Better Than Me – Ex-Brazilian Star Edilson
Former Brazilian star, Edilson says Lionel Messi has to win the World Cup to demonstrate he is better than him.
The 49-year-old was a participant of the Brazilian side that won the Japan/Korea World Cup title in 2002
He also professed that during his time, he was better than Messi and Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo.
Similarly, Edilson said fellow coountryman Neymar has to win the competition to be better than him as well, denying that he was more talented than the threesome.
Messi and Ronaldo have won 11 of the last 12 Ballon d’Or and have a number of individual tag and well known prizes to their names.
But Edilson, who played for Palmeiras and Corinthians in his home country and was never a nominate or won the Ballon d’Or, emphasized that his World Cup medal gave him a step over them.
“At my best, I played better than Neymar,” he was quoted as telling TV Bandeirantes.
He added, “He (Neymar) needs to win the World Cup in order to be better than me. I have personality, and for Messi to be better than me, he also has to win the World Cup.”
For Ronaldo, Edilson blmake that the Portuguese is talented with both feet and has strength but still does not match his talent.
Messi in 2014 played the final World Cup with Argentina where his side lost meticulously to Germany one to nil in Brazil.
Ronaldo and Neymar have also made it to the semi-final of the competition with their respective nations.
Source___Channels TV
Brazil’s Bolsonaro sees second health minister quit
Brazil’s health minister has step down after less than a month in the job following arguments over of the government’s dealing of the country’s spreading coronavirus dilemma.
Nelson Teich had find fault with a decree put forward by President Jair Bolsonaro permitting gyms and beauty parlours to resume work.
Though, he gave no ground for his stepping down at a press conference.
His antecedent was removed after contradicting with Mr Bolsonaro.
The extreme-right president is still keeping on to oppose lockdown measures.
He has lessoned the virus as “a little flu” and has said the escalation of Covid-19 cannot be stopped, attracting global condemnation.
Brazil has lately burst past Germany and France in terms of its coronavirus toll, becoming one of the world’s threatened vwith not less than 200,000 cases. The latest daily figures on Thursday showed 844 new deaths reported, bringing the official death toll to 14,000.
At his news conference, Mr Teich did not bring forward why he had stepped down. He just thanked President Bolsonaro for giving him the privilege to serve as a minister as he praised healthcare workers.
But there is still a clashed between him and the president over many aspects of how the government has tackled the spiralling epidemic.
Source___BBC News
Mexico at ‘focal point’ of coronavirus pandemic after biggest daily rise in cases
*Mexico has reached “the peak moment” of its coronavirus outbreak, officials said, as the country recorded its largest one-day rise in cases so far.*
More than 2,409 new cases of the virus were recorded on Thursday – the first time their latest figure has surpassed 2,000.
The toll of confirmed cases in the country is now more than 40,000.
The grim milestone comes amidst strategies to ease lockdown measures and restart their economy, mainly factories near the border with the US.
Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell – an epidemiologist and Mexico’s coronavirus tsar – marked out this as “the most difficult moment of the first wave of the epidemic”.
He said that the country “could not relax measures” in place to reduce the escalation of the virus, and in alternative needs to welcome a “new normal” to prevent another wave of infections.
On Monday, some key industries – including mining, construction and automobile assembly – are scheduled to partially reopen.
*Mr López-Gatell stressed that the re-opening of these industries will be largely preparatory, with a broader restart of businesses not scheduled until 1 June.*
Government data shown on Thursday also pictured more than half of hospitals in the capital, Mexico City, were at capacity with coronavirus patients.
Earlier this month, Mexico gained a shipment of more than 200 ventilators bought from a US firm.
Source___BBC News
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