Oakridge Schools: The Best Place to Enrol Your Ward

Brief History

Oakridge Schools is one of the top private schools in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. It is a modern school with lots of facilities. At Oakridge School, we have high expectations of our children and set challenging targets for them. Every child is encouraged to reach their full potential and we recognize that every child is special and has their own contributions to make. 

Our staff are dedicated, hardworking and experienced. We provide a safe, calm and caring atmosphere in school and foster a hardworking ethos based on an enjoyment of learning within a stable environment. We expect a great deal from our children and they do not disappoint us. We are pleased to offer a varied selection of enrichment and enhancement opportunities and possess excellent links with our diverse community – we are very proud of our reputation as a warm, welcoming, family school.

Our Vision

To provide a warm welcoming secure environment for all children

 To encourage, value and extend every child’s contribution to the school

 To recognise and celebrate success in everyone

 To provide a broad, balanced, carefully planned curriculum

 To build strong collaborative partnerships with families and the local community

 To encourage and enable the continuous professional development of all staff.

Aims & Objectives

Below are some of our aims and objectives:

To care for and support all children equally regardless of race, sex, ethnic group, religion or special needs

To enable every child to achieve their full potential and to demonstrate excellence

To offer a broad, exciting and relevant curriculum that recognizes and supports individual learning needs

To promote high standards of learning and achievement

To expect high quality academic work

 To equip every child with the personal resources they will need for the future

 To have high personal and social expectations of all children

 To promote high standards of behavior through firm but fair relationships

 To encourage respect for others

 To encourage children to take responsibility for their own actions

 To work in partnership with parents

 To work in partnership with the community

 To operate in a happy, well maintained, safe, clean and attractive school

Our Core Values

Below are some of the values that we hold high:

We have high expectations

 We put people first

 We value everyone

 We are excited when children learn

 We encourage through praise and reward

 We enable everyone to believe in themselves

 We are a mutually supportive community

 We love learning new things and we enjoy sharing our successes

 We enjoy finding new ways of thinking and we enjoy challenges

 We take care of, enjoy and respect our environment

 It is important that we feel successful

 We get excited when we learn something new

 We all feel good about ourselves

 We enjoy working as a team and also learn to become independent

 We value life-long learning

Photos: Woman shocked as she found puff-puff instead of egg in her eggroll

A pianist took to Twitter to show what she found inside the eggroll she bought.

 

Rather than a boiled egg, the woman found puff-puff inside her eggroll.

 

She said for someone who loves eggroll, the incident left her traumatised.

 

See her tweets and more photos below.

 

 

Photos: Melania Trump makes second public appearance in a week with her husband Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago

Former US first lady, Melania Trump made her second public appearance in a week on Wednesday night, April 14 after shying away from the spotlight for months since her husband Donald left the White House back in January. 

 

Melania was spotted enjoying dinner with her husband Donald Trump at a private roped-off table at Mar-a-Lago. 

 

 

The dinner outing marks the seventh occasion the 50-year-old former First Lady has been seen out and about since their departure from the White House. 

 

The photos, which were taken by guests at the Palm Beach resort and shared online show Melania and Donald, 74, sitting side-by-side at a round table outdoors at one of Mar-a-Lago's restaurants. 

 

 

For the outing, the mother-of-one rocked an elegant sleeveless dress, while her husband wore a navy suit, white button-up shirt, and a striped tie.

 

The public dinner comes just days after Melania and Donald stepped out for a fundraiser held at the Florida club - where she and former President Trump have been living since leaving Washington, D.C. in January. 

 

 

Nyanya bomb blast: Victims look back seven years afta deadly incident wey kill 88 people

Wetin we call dis foto,

Two of di victims of di Nyanya bomb blast

Business activities dey boom and pipo dey in high spirit for di Nyanya bus terminal seven years afta bomb blast kill 88 pipo and wunjure 200 hundred odas.

Di park now wear new look but di painful memory of April-14-2014 and di scars still dey visible for di mind of 30 years-old Ashiru Salisu.

Salisu wey be member of di Road union, bin come park early to load passengers wen e hear a bang sound and e feel as if something pass im hand- before e go say jack, im hand cut for ground.

E bin never know say im hand cut as everybody dey try run to save dia lives- na later e realise say e no get hand again and e say di whole incident change im entire life.

E say di work wey im dey do before to feed im two wives and pikin dem, im no dey fit do am again.

And dat tins wey im dey do wit im hand before, e no dey do am again and dat now, e dey depend on pipo to do am for am.

Sake of say epp no dey, Salisu return back to di park to kontinu im work. E say as e waka di park, di painful memory dey flood back im mind.

'Sharp object still dey inside my body'

Thomas Adoche Adanu bin dey cari im family go park make dem travel for Easter break wen di blast happun.

Di blast tear im belle open and im intestine pour out.

But for di timely intervention of di rescue team, wey cari am go hospital and doctors and specialists wey operate on am for hours, e for no dey life today.

E dey for hospital for six months and do almost five operations before e start to get better.

E tell BBC Pidgin say, for four months, e no fit eat anything except for drip wey dem di give am.

WIA DIS FOTO COME FROM,THOMAS ADOCHE ADANU

While oga Thomas dey glad say e dey alive, e say im get mixed feeling as dem look back seven years afta di incident.

E say plenti pipo wit dreams bin perish for di blas t- many of dem blast to pieces and dia hopes for a better life wey be di reason why dem come Abuja-dem no realise am.

Even though Thomas don pick up im life, e say some of di objects from di blast still dey im bodi and dat, each time dem begin rust, belle go start to di pain am and e dey cause am fever.

E say on monthly basis, e gats take drugs wey reach 30 thousand naira and as a family pesin, sometimes tins dey hard

Di victims say dem dey neglected and dat say goment no send dem.

N7.9 billion cash: EFCC grants Okorocha bail

After spending two nights in its custody, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, released former governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, on administrative bail. But the EFCC had to vary the bail terms before Senator Okorocha could meet the terms and be able to go home after spending 48 hours with his interrogators.

A source said the anti-graft agency had demanded that the former governor produced two former governors or two serving senators from the South East as a condition for his bail but he objected to it on the grounds that it would be difficult to achieve that within the short period at his disposal.

Based on the objection, Okorocha’s legal team filed for a variation of the bail conditions, which the EFCC finally granted. Vanguard, however, learned that the former governor was able to produce a ranking Senator from the Northeast as a guarantor for his release from EFCC custody. A source in EFCC confirmed that the former governor would have another date with the operatives but did not specify the date he is expected to reappear. The whole gamut of the interrogation, according to the source, relates to the N7.9 billion allegedly traced in many banks to the former governor, something he has repeatedly denied and had written a statement in that regard as part of his submission on Wednesday night to the anti-graft agency. The spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the release of the former governor but declined to give details on the matter. Okorocha was arrested on Tuesday by EFCC operatives on the suspicion of diverting Imo State funds into private property and banks but he has consistently denied the claim by the EFCC. It was not clear as of last night if the EFCC had gathered adequate evidence to charge him and his associates linked with the cash and choice property to the court.

Culled www.vanguardngr.com

Loochi LEAD Centre: Granting Micro Loans, Facilitating Trainings, and Free Financial Advice

Also known as Loochi LEAD Centre is a membership based NGO – Microfinance Institution duly registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) with registration number CAC/IT/NO 145765 is at 3, Daramola Street, Off Akowonjo Road, bakery Bus Stop, Egbeda, Lagos Nigeria.

It is registered as an Affiliate Member with the Association of Non- Bank Microfinance Institution of Nigeria (ANMFIN) under the state category in accordance with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) revised Microfinance Policy with affiliation No. 04/02/0069 and certificate No. 865.

They are also an official member of the Nigeria Network of Non-Governmental Organisations (NNNGO)

Services

Micro Loans

This is a loan granted to members to be paid daily for up to 2-3 months.

Trainings

Relevant ski

Pool Contribution

We basically take banking to our target customers who ordinarily don’t have access to vanilla banking services. Our sales team are situated in various markets to directly provide our services. We currently have several registered members across over 25 market locations in Lagos as of July 2020, who have benefited from our loan advance scheme.
Apart from loan advances, we go further to train some of these traders on skills to improve their business structure and operations.

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COVID-19: Traditional ruler tells Nigerians to set aside fears, take vaccine

Eze Samuel Ohiri, former chairman of Imo Council of Traditional Rulers, on Wednesday, urged Nigerians not to entertain fears about safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, have recommended that America suspended the Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, after six cases of a “rare and severe” type of blood clot was reported. The cases were reported among women between the ages of 18 and 48 years, and the symptoms occurred six to 13 days after vaccination. Ohiri, a medical laboratory graduate and also chairman of HI-TECHDIAGNOSTICS LIMITED, manufacturers of Diagnostic Test Kits, however, told NAN in Abuja, that both Johnson & Johnson and the Astrazeneca vaccines were safe for humans. “The U.S. Government has taken this action just out of an abundance of caution. It is prudence to make sure that the risk, if any, is not significant.

“Again, looking at the data, only six cases of this blood clot, out of about six million people who have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the United States, to me is very insignificant. “I believe that both Johnson & Johnson and the Astrazeneca vaccine being used in Nigeria, are Safe,” he said. The royal father, who reiterated confidence in the vaccination process, said it was the roadmap to genuinely containing the virus, as well as achieving national immunity. He strongly advocated for universal immunisation for global wellness, aimed at restoring prosperity both in health and wealth. Ohiri, however, advised the public to disregard insinuations that could undermine the reality of the dangers COVID-19 and its emerging strains, posed to health. (NAN)

President Mohammad Buhari returns to Nigeria: Photos

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Nigeria following his London medical checkup two weeks ago.

He was pictured arriving to Abuja at about 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 15 after spending about two weeks in London for ‘medical checkup’ and ‘rest.’

Mr Buhari was welcomed by president mail aides, military heads and other top government officials. See photos below.

Ramadan: Hisbah police arrest eleven persons for not fasting

 The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested eleven persons for refusing to participate in the ongoing Ramadan fast.

The Director-General of the Hisbah board, Dr. Aliyu Musa Kibiya, confirmed that three males, and eight females arrested after they were caught eating in the daytime during the Ramadan.

Kibiya says that it is compulsory for every adult in the state to participate in the fasting during the Islamic holy month.

He said;

“We will investigate and if they have cogent reasons we will release them. Those found wanting will however be enlightened and even prosecuted if need be” Dr. Kibiya said

However, he added that women on their menstruation period , old people and traveler are allowed to eat.

“Fasting is compulsory for healthy, adult Muslims in the month of Ramadan except for the travelers, menstruating women or old people.” he added

Hackers gain access into JAMB’s website, divert over N10m

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says hackers have gained access into its intranet site and reportedly diverted over N10m after altering the profiles of its ad hoc staff.

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This was made known by the Registrar of the exam body, Ishaq Oloyede, while addressing journalists in Abuja on Tuesday April 13.

Oloyede who disclosed that the diverted money was the allowance of the board’s ad hoc staff, said it was uncovered after an investigation was carried out.

The investigation also led to the arrest of one Sahabi Zubairu from Takum in Taraba state alongside others.

On how the fraudsters gained access to the profiles, Oloyede explained that they used Key Logger, a software that allows access to the profile of anyone who has logged in using a public cybercafé even after the person has logged out and gone.

He said that the site wasn’t for application to become JAMB ad hoc staff, but for JAMB ad hoc staff to supply their account details and names for payment of their allowances.

Oloyede said Zubairu deleted the names of the original ad hoc staff and their telephone numbers and substituted them with his, adding that those affected include code numbers 313 and 312, among others.

The JAMB registrar also disclosed that the accounting department failed to detect the fraud by not cross-checking the names on the accounts to ensure that they tallied with those listed on the website or owners of the codes.

Revealing that the ad hoc staff of the board have since been paid and also giving an assurance of the stolen money being recovered, Oloyede further stated that payment into the accounts of the beneficiaries led to the divertion.