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There are, in addition, many of us who think that the War in Iraq made Americans less safe in various ways -- it certainly made the 4,488 Americans who died fighting there less safe, and with uncertain at best safety benefits to those of us back in the United States. The more you look at the evidence, the more you real...
How about, "For all his failings, he tried his best."
According to him, residents of the council have benefitted dividends of democracy in various fields in the last 500 days.
He, however, promised to surpass the achievements recorded so far.
The weeklong events featured handing over of Estate Primary School, Ogba, opening of Senator Oluremi Tinubu Vocational Training Centre and Information Computer Technology (ICT) at Ogba, distribution of wheel chairs to the physically-challenged, presentation of empowerment materials, free health services, among others.
While receiving the Estate Primary School, from the representatives of Budhrani Charitable Trust, Oloro described education as the catalyst of sustainable development in the society.
He said: “Any nation that fails to empower the youths especially through sound education has compromised her future to failure,” he said.
According to Oloro, the school was handed over to the LCDA for onward transmission to the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).
“And to complement this project, we distributed 30,000 copies of books, desks, tables, Mathematical sets. We have also distributed GCE forms to 200 indigent pupils. On assumption of office in 2017, we made known to the people that education will be our priority. This has prompted us to construct six blocks of classroom...
He thanked the Budhrani Charitable Trust for investing in the future of the youth.
On the Senator Oluremi Tinubu Vocational Training Centre and Information Computer Technology (ICT), Oloro said the centre will encourage the youth to be self-reliant.
“It is known that most graduates cannot get white collar job, hence the need for the youth to be empowered. Studies have shown that empowering the youth will lead to reduction in poverty rate and aid economic growth. The center will offer training in hairdressing and cosmetology, catering and hotel management, textile ...
Oloro decried poor state of healthcare service in the country noting that the health sector deserves special attention.
The council, he said, conducted free medical screening and also provided drugs for the people.
“This is sacrosanct, because diabetes is regarded as number one high risk killer disease. That is the reason we are bringing free medical check-ups and drugs to the people’s door step. The effort was further complemented by the Ajoke Asisat Afolabi Foundation and Star Children Initiative Foundation in United Kingdom (U...
Senator Oluremi Tinubu hailed Oloro for impacting positively on the communities in the council.
Represented by former Sole Administrator of Bariga Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Sanya Osijo, Senator Tinubu said oloro’s achievements are outstanding.
According to her, the council boss’ landmark achievements are worthy of emulation.
The last time Baylor University visited Memorial Stadium wasn't so different from the lead-in to today's game against the Kansas Jayhawks.
The Bears were nationally ranked. Kansas was near the bottom. Baylor's offense was high-powered. And it was led by Robert Griffin III, who would go on to win a Heisman Trophy a couple of months later.
Kansas wasn't expected to make much of a game of it.
Guess again. The Bears fell behind early and needed Griffin to provide some fourth-quarter magic to force overtime. Baylor escaped with a 31-30 victory on that October day in 2011, but there was nothing simple about it.
"That was a tough, hard-fought game," said senior defensive back Sam Noll, who indicated that the docile Memorial Stadium crowd actually played to the Jayhawks' advantage that day. "When I think of Kansas, I think of going in there. It is a tough place to get yourself going because it's not the big environment like oth...
"We came out a little flat."
It will be interesting to see if the Bears learned their lesson from 2011.
The offense might be more potent than it was with Griffin at the helm. The numbers would lend credence to that. Through six games, the Bears are unbeaten. More impressively, they are averaging 64.7 points and 714.3 yards - both tops in the nation - per game.
Neutralizing Baylor might be a tall order - even for a Kansas defense that has climbed into the national rankings and figures to get a boost this week with the return of linebacker Ben Heeney, one of the Big 12's leading tacklers who sat out last week's loss to Oklahoma with a knee injury.
Charlie Weis is hopeful that prime-time affair (6 p.m. on ESPNU) might make a sometimes-docile crowd a bit more noisy. The noise could disrupt an offense that has played away from Waco just once - two weeks ago when Kansas State nearly shut down the Bears.
"I'm hoping for a ... loud, boisterous crowd to make it not so easy on them," Weis said. "And that's what I think they got at K-State, it was a loud, boisterous crowd and Kansas State played conservative, they only blitzed a couple times the whole game."
Baylor has so many playmakers on offense, it puts pressure on a defense - even one that is playing conservatively. A long gainer, no matter the field position, is always one play away.
And quarterback Bryce Petty said this week that the Bears will be prepared to win - regardless of whether they are at home or on the road.
"To us it doesn't matter where we play or who we play or when we play," he said. "It's always about Baylor. This is a one-game season and Kansas is our game, so we've got to prepare and attack with that in mind."
Petty has already passed for 2,023 yards and 15 touchdowns, while two receivers - Antwan Goodley and Tevin Reese - have combined for 65 receptions for 1,565 yards and 14 scores.
That doesn't make mention of a rushing attack that has accounted for 1,802 yards. Lache Seastrunk has run for 760 yards and 10 touchdowns and five others have churned out at least 100 yards on the ground.
Shall we keep going? A total of 16 players have combined for 53 touchdowns in six games. The offensively-challenged Jayhawks by comparison have scored just 14 touchdowns this season.
Weis tried to jump-start the offense last week by inserting freshman quarterback Montell Cozart into the game in running situations. The next time he goes into a game - which could be against Baylor - Weis said it's important that he bring with him the entire offensive package.
"I think the first thing you need to do is get him involved with the whole game plan," Weis said. "That includes all of the passes, all of the runs, everything. If they think that every time we put in Montell it's just to go ahead and run the ball, it's not going to take very long for the defensive coordinators to figu...
Weis met with the Bishop Miege graduate this week for some private tutelage on the offense.
"He'll know everything this week," Weis said. "Last week, he wasn't quite ready for everything. ... (He) can't just know these 10 plays. (He) needs to know everything. We'll see how he handles it this week, but he'll be involved in everything."
"This is so important, it’s so historic," Taylor told the audience. "I'm so proud to be here with you tonight. Fellow democrats even a few republicans who see that they can’t go that way that can’t do that thing. Not this time."
Hours earlier, one New Hampshire Republican—former US Senator Gordon Humphrey—announced he’ll be voting for Clinton, and implored other Republicans to do the same.
A message of unity, and inclusiveness was the big message of the night.
"I want to be be the president for all Americans, those who vote for me, and those who do not vote for me," Clinton spoke. "Because we have to heal this country. And that’s gonna take everyone!"
Clinton came on stage with Khizr Khan—whose son was killed in Iraq, and who led a call and response with the crowd.
A few people held up constitutions while Mr. Kahn spoke—calling back to his speech at the Democratic National Convention. Others held up printed copies of Clinton’s agenda—as Clinton took one more trip through those promises: Affordable pre-k, bringing technical ed back into high schools, paid famiy leave, equal pay fo...
She told the crowd she expects New Hampshire to hold her accountable to those promises, if they elect her.
"We’ve got to get everyone to believe that this election is about you. It is about you, your dreams, your aspirations, your hopes, your family, your community. I have never felt more strongly about what we can do together. I am confident, and I am optimistic about the future we can make together."
Clinton pledged to bring healing, and reconciliation to the state and to the country, and that she hoped to get going on that as soon as November 9.
Chelsea Clinton is campaigning for her mother, Hillary Clinton, in New Hampshire on Friday. She'll make stops at Keene State and Dartmouth College, just the latest in a series of college campus visits for the Clinton campaign in the state.
The youth could mean a boost for Clinton in the New Hampshire polls -- but only if college-aged voters bother to cast their ballot.
The Judiciary Committee chair will bend every rule to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as part of his career-long mission to overturn Roe.
While Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court is a staunch conservative, his views on religious freedom are less well known.
To understand why evangelicals support the president, look to the first Protestant.
If you leave out the part about him being a corrupt, immoral con man and bully, there’s lots for them to like.
Based on a single quote, which doesn’t say what he thinks it says.
For the first time in the history of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) College of Medicine, Ogun State, a graduate of Medicine and Surgery, Dr. Saheed Alabi has achieved an unprecedented feat with distinctions in seven courses out of 10, emerging as the overall best graduating student at the institution’s combined ...
He was among the 43 first class graduates the institution produced this year. He got an automatic employment and promise of further studies abroad from Governor Ibikunle Amosun.
A breakdown of the statistics revealed that 5,809 graduands received their degrees, diplomas and certificates in the Faculties of Law, Pharmacy, Basic Medical Science, Health Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Arts, Education, out of which 41 had PhD; 379 master’s degrees; 110 got postgraduate diploma; 811 ma...
Alabi said he plans to commence and complete his internship programme and afterwards do his postgraduate programme in clinicals and academic.
The best graduand, who said he had assisted in carrying out a surgery on a patient during his COBMES posting, thanked the vice-chancellor and his management team for their efforts in putting the institution in its rightful place, as well as the governor for supporting the university.
In his remarks, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Saburi Adesanya, congratulated the graduands while advising them to bring to bear the skills and technique they acquired to excel in their areas of endeavour.
He expressed concern that the university is faced with enormous challenges, which threaten the sustenance of its achievements, adding that it needs more facilities to meet its immediate need of increasing student population and development of its urban social amenities.
A disposal well owned by New Dominion near Prague, Okla.
Trial is set for September.
A district court judge has approved class-action status for a lawsuit accusing an Tulsa oil company of being responsible for damage caused by earthquakes.
The judge ruled that residents and business owners with property in nine counties — Cleveland, Creek, Lincoln, Logan, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Payne, Pottawatomie and Seminole — can join a 2015 lawsuit brought by resident Jennifer Lin Cooper after a string of earthquakes shook near the city of Prague in 2011.
The lawsuit accuses New Dominion of operating wastewater disposal wells that triggered the shaking, which peaked with a 5.7-magnitude earthquake that injured two people and damaged more than a dozen buildings.
New Dominion President and General Counsel Fred Buxton declined to comment on the pending lawsuit, but the company has denied causing the earthquakes in court filings.
The Prague earthquake was the first Oklahoma temblor scientists linked to the energy industry practice of pumping oil-field wastewater into underground disposal wells.
Trial is set to begin in September. Attorney Scott Poynter, who represents Cooper and the class of plaintiffs, expects trial to last two weeks.
A national push for teaching standards; Clinton plan: Improving the quality of classroom teachers through voluntary licensing.
POLLS SHOW the public wants the federal government to help improve the quality of public schools. Yet each time the Clinton administration suggests an initiative, crit- ics issue warnings about the loss of local control.
The familiar drama was played out last week after Education Secretary Richard W. Riley proposed a uniform system for qualifying teachers nationwide.
The idea is a good one. Research shows teacher quality varies dramatically between states and even school districts. In Baltimore, for instance, 17 percent of teachers are not certified compared with 6 percent statewide.
Thirty-eight states, including Maryland, require teachers to pass a test or performance review to obtain state certification. But while some licensing requirements are stringent, others are lax. For example, Maryland is one of the few states requiring its teachers to take reading courses.
Yet state tests and licensing requirements offer little protection against unqualified teachers. Several states routinely change the required "pass rate" to guarantee that an adequate supply of teachers qualify. And school districts frequently get around licensing requirements by hiring uncertified teachers.
The Clinton plan calls for phasing out the use of uncertified teachers by 2004. It would set up a three-tier system for licensing teachers with compensation tied to each educator's license, skills and experience. New teachers determined to be unsuitable would be advised early on.
At a time when students are asked to meet tough new performance standards, we must ensure their teachers are competent. By setting voluntary national standards, the federal government can help articulate what is expected of teachers.
Unfortunately, that's not the way Mr. Clinton's critics see it. They question why teachers from California to Maryland should be encouraged to meet the same qualifications.
Two obvious answers: In today's mobile society, teachers -- like students -- frequently cross state lines. States including Maryland don't know precisely what they are getting when they accept other states' certifications for relocating teachers. National licensing standards would clear up the confusion.
Additionally, standard licensing requirements would send a clear message about the training needed from the colleges that educate future teachers.
No one expects Mr. Clinton's proposal to pass this year. But it is igniting a valuable national debate about what makes a good teacher -- and whether those qualities vary from state to state.
Gov. Hogan has no reason other than stubbornness not to release school funding.
When Gov. Larry Hogan announced that he would not spend the $68 million the General Assembly had set aside to fully fund K-12 education or $15 million earmarked for the Prince George's Hospital, his contention was that he would use the money instead to shore up the state's pension system. The legislature had voted a fe...
The governor's message was a bit misleading, in that he did not actually have the authority to transfer the unspent education and hospital money to the pension system. That money has just been sitting in the state's accounts collecting dust (and a bit of interest). But there was at least a theoretical grain of truth in...
But in the last six months, Maryland's fiscal situation has gotten markedly better, so much so that leading Democrats on Monday held a news conference to declare victory in the state's long standing battle with an imbalance between ongoing revenues and expenditures. We're not quite ready to hang a "Mission Accomplished...
We absolutely agree with Mr. Hogan's caution about loosening the state's purse strings in response to the latest good fiscal news. The Department of Legislative Services has declared the state's structural deficit eliminated before only to see its projections upended by the global financial crisis. And this time, much ...
But funding GCEI now does nothing to change the state's long-term finances. The legislature voted this year to make full funding of that program mandatory in future years, and Mr. Hogan allowed that bill to become law. Refusing to spend the money now does not help the pension system, nor does it affect the state's stru...
But for the school systems that took a cut as a result of Mr. Hogan's decision on GCEI, it's much more important than that. Carroll County's school system, for example, cut 56 positions this year to address a deficit driven in large part by the governor's decision not to fully fund GCEI. Howard County schools, which lo...
If those justifications aren't enough, there is the political reality. That $50 million extra payment for the pension system exists only so long as the General Assembly doesn't vote to take it away. Mr. Hogan now faces a united front between House Speaker Michael E. Busch and Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller on t...
Thousands participated in student-organized walkouts at schools from Redlands to Yucaipa on Wednesday, March 14, to promote school safety and to memorialize the students and educators killed in Parkland, Florida.
About 500 students at Redlands High School stood silently for 17 minutes, gathered around a flagpole. They then placed shoes, photos, flowers and a poster board bearing the names of those killed during the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
At Redlands East Valley High, students planned a voter registration drive in front of the school. But from outside the campus, all that could be seen were a few security vehicles and a group of about a half dozen students standing together for a prayerful reflection. Redlands Unified School District spokeswoman MaryRon...
Dylan Miars, 18, who was organizing the voter drive said school administrators suggested he move his voter drive into the school’s quad for safety.
He said he was able to hold his drive, asking students to sign up or pre-register to vote.
About 200 students walked out at each Moore, Clement and Cope middle schools in Redlands, and Beattie Middle School in Highland. Most gatherings lasted 17 minutes — one for each victim in the Florida shooting. At Citrus Valley High in Redlands about 400 students walked out, and at Orangewood High in Redlands about 10 d...
At Beattie, students wore orange in solidarity with Marjory Stoneman Douglas High and their school color, and were encouraged to make 17 positive connections.
Superintendent Mauricio Arellano noted in an emailed statement that preparation by staff was successful in keeping schools safe with minimal interruption.
“I am very proud of the students who participated because they did so in a peaceful manner and then promptly returned to class. Opposing viewpoints were also respected,” he wrote.
Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District Superintendent Cali Binks said in an emailed statement that the district had students, faculty, administration and staff peacefully recognize the lives lost in Florida.