Safe online classroom for all Nigerian schools

In light of the global CORONAVIRUS pandemic, most countries have closed all schools forcing students to observe their government lockdowns, several countries, and schools have adopted some third-party video conferencing applications as a means of conveying lectures to their students. In recent days, however, it has come to light about concerns of privacy as in some cases while students were online in their chosen platform, voices of older non-students have been heard speaking in the conference calls. There are other incidents of a data breach in major calling applications too with students complaining that after conference calling with their classes they start receiving calls from strange and unknown telephone numbers, the reason is that hacking such third-party application is easy once the call or connection tunnel is open or activated.                

                                  

                                       

9jaacademy provides a fully secured network for schools and students alike, to ensure the privacy of all members are guaranteed 9jaacademy prides its self on implementing a different connection protocol which does not allow tunneling or third-party access into schools, classes, conferences, and subject rooms. With 9jaacademy, students’ true identities are concealed, classes are protected through secure network channels and access is strictly monitored for all login types.

                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                           

                                                                                                                             

                                                                                                                                                                                                

9jaacademy, unlike any other online school service provider, implements high-end forensic protective measures that provide real-time security for all registered schools with digital footprint marking, log analysis, student account protection guard. 9jaacademy also implements the world’s first rattle-snake web technology aimed at projecting the entirety of www.9jaacademy.com from malicious intrusions.

Schools registered at 9jaacademy are given total flexibility in all aspect of their web page, it feels like owning your school website and getting someone else to manage it for you, truth be told, third-party applications like WhatsApp, zoom, and Viber were not developed with schools in mind so I think liability cannot be given to them in cases of breach or hacking of class conference.

With 9jaacademy, a school can have in literal terms every class, every student, every function and every staff on their e-learning platform and function just as it would normally on the physical location of any school.

                                         

                                                                              

9jaacademy provides school in Nigeria with the A to Z of tools needed to ensure a decent e-learning platform free of the intrusions and distractions currently experienced by schools in Hong Kong.

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Nigerian government support for students in the fight against COVID 19

Nigerian government support for students in the fight against COVID 19

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The federal government of Nigeria at the start of April 2020 announced that it is considering using mediums like radio and television programs to convey education to the millions of Nigerian students who have been forced to stay home as their contribution to the fight against the spread of coronavirus, this consideration is seen at some areas of the Nigerian society as very welcomed and in other areas, the reverse is the case.

Nigeria has come a long way from the early years of its independence from the English, in previous years, successive governments in retrospect did abandon the plight of all Nigerian students, I  remember a case in point where when the academic staff union of Nigerian universities when on strike demanding better pay and working conditions, that action lasted for an upward of five years which had and is still having adverse negative social and economic effects, let me explain.

The ASU strike in the '80s lasted approximately five years, but the thing there was also that Primary and Secondary school teachers were not part of ASU so their students kept climbing up the academic chain towards the universities which were then closed, so in essence students from secondary schools were graduating and leaving the secondary levels but had no university to go to.

After some years of waiting, youth and boredom starting getting the best of the vulnerable students leading a high number of them into various levels of crime, at some point in the early 90s the situation got so bad that robberies and other violent crimes were committed by secondary school students, it then became obvious that the governments at that time did not care about the issues in the educational sector.

The deepening polarization of the Nigerian educational system resulting from years of government neglect and lack of proper government support saw many Nigerian upper- and middle-class families send their children out of Nigeria for education. Although applauded by many as a viable solution to the dying Nigerian educational system at that time, most people now realize that sending your child to some other country for education could guarantee a future for that child but what would that future be? or how would that future look like? If the country is over-ran by criminals and terrorists, how would your child who has spent years in another country cope with the daily Nigerian crime statistics?          

Scientists and researchers the world over have pointed direct correlation between the lack of good education and the increase in crime rate, a fact is already known and to some degree accepted by the Nigerian government thus the effort to acknowledge the existence of problems in leaving students with learning.

A radio station as a medium to convey education to the millions of Nigerian students staying home to avoid coronavirus infection can be seen or taken as a very laudable step by the Nigerian government, however, radio program as a learning medium would be more successful in the 1970s, '80s and perhaps to some extent it might yield some favourable results in the 90`s but we are in the '20s and times have changed.

In education there is no one size fits all, this is a fact that cannot be disputed by academics even in Nigeria because even a classroom settings present a wide variety of learning patterns which the academic staffs try to work on, so how can a single radio program suffice for millions of students, there are lots of unignorable setbacks to this radio plan.

One major setback in this radio plan is disability ratio between Nigerian students, World health organization estimates that there are between one to four million students with some form of disability or the other, having radio as a means would completely leave out students with hearing disabilities and also the slow learners just to mention the least another point to consider is that if the Nigerian students were so capable to have unsupervised learning then why do we need teachers in the first place?

The television program idea, once again a laudable effort from the Nigerian government but again it is too little as the television learning program lacks inclusiveness what is guaranteed under supervised learning and again it also lacks consideration of others with disabilities.

Good education and not just any type of education is the fundamental right of all Nigerian students regardless of age, gender, religion, disabilities and the government should be held to task on providing productive education in Nigeria. In western countries, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, schools were closed and students ordered to learn from home, this did not imply self-control learning from home but rather schools took to online platforms for communications between their class teachers and students.

In some countries schools form WhatsApp groups where there is the unavailability of a proper online platform, others use retail platforms like Udemy and google scholar. In Nigeria, the new trend is Naija-academy (www.9jaacademy.com ) and this is for several understandable reasons which I will break down in a short comparison between these retail online platforms.

One major reason for the overwhelming preference of 9jaacademy in Nigeria over Udemy and Google scholar is to high cost which creates in its self-limitations for Nigerian student as Udemy charges per person and it's considered by most Nigerian schools because it is a drop and pickup website or like a YouTube for courses and thereby no classes created there or even feeling of being at school, another thing that Nigerian schools consider is that Udemy is not flexible to enable the integration of Nigerian schools basic philosophy.    

 

Google classroom, on the other hand, does provide classrooms and some useful tools but then again too expensive as the payments are charged per person and the google online classroom is very rigid and not flexible enough for most Nigerian schools thus making it not particularly fitting for the Nigerian educational

structure.

Another thing is that neither Google nor Udemy has channels of negotiation with Nigerian schools in matters of late payments or inability to meet up, even payments apart, if used by Nigerian schools then they (the School) will have to also comply with rules laid down by these websites.

Leading Nigerian schools now use 9jaacademy for several reasons and not just because they are leading schools, for example, 9jaacademy now offers full one-year free premium membership for all Nigerian schools and school level. The platform provided by 9jaacademy gives schools the possibility of adding all students or all classes, grades, and levels. Why should the future of any Nigerian student be put into disarray in their learning and development process? 

      For Nigerian students, it does not matter if you don't have money, 9jaacademy is and will always remain free for all Nigerian students, all it takes is that your school is a registered member of 9jaacademy. In this time of global coronavirus pandemic and of course, any future event of similar or greater events 9jaacademy ensures that all Nigerian schools have their fully customizable web presence.

With 9jaacademy school sessions are in fully functional order, with live classrooms, video streaming classes, video lessons uploading, assignment setting, assignment collection and submission, global bookshops for affordable books for all school class types, these are just a tip of the iceberg 9jaacademy putting it shortly is a school away from school. The 9jaacademy bookshop provides books from publishers national and global covering every subject topic.   

9jaacademy prides itself in working with Nigerian schools to help schools improve their standards and quality of education, I think parents and academic staffs responsible for children MUST demand that their schools be registered in a managed platform like 9jaacademy the reason being that management of owned platform is costly and with high manageability issues for a simple school, IT staffs. Several main academic institutions of western nations can agree on the fact that the advantages of managed schooling platform far outweighs the disadvantages, this is because of most leading online school use managed platforms.

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COVID 19 / CORONAVIRUS IN NIGERIAN SCHOOLS, STOP THE VIRUS NOT EDUCATION

   9jaacademy seen as the one true solution for Nigerian schools

Since the outbreak of COVID 19 global pandemic several countries have been put on lockdown, some for a stipulated period of time while others are told to be on self-quarantine indefinitely or at least until the global infection rates starts a downward trend. These national lockdowns includes all non-essential businesses like fashion stores, building materials stores, bars, public swing pools, cinemas and  schools, the origin of the Coronavirus is not particularly clear but one thing that is becoming increasingly clear is the damage that this pandemic if not handled swiftly and with great care, will unleash upon countries and economies.

Covid-19 is here and it does not really matter what protectionary method a country takes, the damage will be incurred one way or the other, sadly some people and families will be more affected that others, there are also  issues arising from total educational  disruption  and in this case some students are more affected than others.

Schools in majority of countries European union  have been shut and students told to stay home and self-isolate in a bid to stop or reduce the threat of person to person transmission of the coronavirus, however, the most European   schools and schooling systems are aware that leaving a student home with no learning on a daily basis would be even more devastating to the economy in the long run, to meet this challenge of maintaining the mental development process of each school age European child , schooling for the time being have been moved to online only, in essence, each student still attends school just not physically .

In Nigeria, some schools have also closed their door and ordered students to stay home until further notice, however, in most cases the students stay home and study at their own volition,  

With no proper guideline on what the student should lean and areas to cover within this lockdown period it seems the average Nigerian student is again left in the dark by their schools and their leaders. I recently had a call with a professor at the university of Abuja Nigeria, our discussion of course was centred around the school closure and what is expected of the students, when I suggested that the children will be missing their lectures and asked what facilities are put in place so that the time is not wasted for the students he told me that when the schools resume they will start off from where they stopped.

Well my  thought at that moment was “what if this social distancing approach takes a year will the student who was 19 years old when the school stops return back to school after a year and still be 19?” Well to be fair to the professor, online schooling facilities is not that common and is mainly the very rich schools that can afford it, even then more than 90% of the schools that have online learning facilities have their websites not really functioning in its best. Another reason is the cost of developing and maintain their own learning platform is considered by some schools as on the high side, what this means is that millions of Nigerian students if asked to remain home would essentially loose the time spent at home and therefore remain behind their counterparts in the international educational arena.

With the short term notice given in light of this coronavirus pandemic it would not be fair to totally blame Nigerian schools for not being able to provide the online learning possibilities for their students as most schools in Nigeria were just in the early stage of planning the implementation of online learning. 9jaacademy at www.9jaacademy.com provides to all Nigerian schools online learning platform for one(1) year free premium membership to help school reach their students and conduct proper school work.

9jaacademy provides schools with fully customisable school online platform for one year free, schools can create their classrooms, add staffs, add students, subjects, periodic testing, examination centres and even much more, with 9jaacademy premium membership Nigerian schools are granted unlimited student  listing which means teachers, instructors and lecturers can reach each and every one of their students at any time, in this time of the coronavirus pandemic, social-distancing is recommended as a means  of combating the spread of this pandemic.

Retail online schooling system

If your school or the school of your child does not use any online service or own a dysfunctional online platform then you can register here and get your 1 year free trial , or you are a teacher, instructor or lecturer you can invite  your school  to join the 9jaacademy  to help you still teach your students while in self-isolation, with 9jaacademy you can function normally  as a teacher, lecturer and even student because 9jaacademy is not just a place to do classwork but rather provides various socialisation channels for each and every member of 9jaacademy, 9jaacademy is a place also for tangible knowledge transfer and personal development.

Visit www.9jaacademy.com today and give your school an outstanding global acknowledgements, help your students build the bridge for a better future for all, unlike most other retail online schooling platforms, 9jaacademy offers one year premium membership to all school, and a lifetime free standard user membership , together we will defeat this coronavirus pandemic !!!

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Vienna: Europe’s CBD capital

Unlike most other European and world nations post the hiatus, production of  industrial scale  cannabis was legally permitted  this would later be ratified in 1995 for  CBD, fibers, and hemp seed oil, the Austrian legal system applies specific distinctions between  personal use and  the commercial distribution of drugs as far back as 1971, this legal provision implies that technically the consumption of  cannabis remains a non-punishable offense but however, actions like  possession, purchase, and distribution remains illegal.

With an estimated sale of over 300,000 seedlings per month., Austria has been in the leading position out-running other larger European nations in the sales volume of cannabis clone, cannabis clone sales in Austria is partly boosted by the illegal status in major European powers like Germany and the Switzerland of the sales of cannabis seedlings thus making Austria a very popular location for customers in need of high quality cannabis clones and cuttings.

The Austria cannabis regulation is a rather complex mosaic do´s and don´ts that require a good understanding both for consumers and businesses alike, for example, the regulation of industrial cannabis production and distribution was put directly under the  Austrian Ministry of health which allows the cultivation of cannabis for medical and scientific purposes  but still there are no government approved treatment for medical cannabis patients.

Another example of the complexity of the Austrian cannabis legislation can be seen in the case of CBD ( cannabinoid), in 2018 the famous Austrian café chain  Aida rolled out with sales of cakes containing CBD, the sales was immediately stopped  because although the sale of pure CBD  remains legal in Austria the sales of products containing  CBD is illegal thereby prompting Aida to give away all the baked cakes for free.

At this point in time, it is safe and not out of place to state that the Austrian cannabis law can be viewed as a flag that is ultimately directed by the flow of the political wind, for example, in 2017 right-leaning conservative party led by Mr. Sebastian Kurz proposed changes to the Austrian criminal justice system that would ultimately see the banning of the sale of hemp plants and hemp seeds, this attempt was taken very seriously by the  Austrian market leader in sales of hemp plants, Flowery Field, thereby prompting a migration of their operations to Italy.

Although the legality of cannabis as a whole in Austria is  somewhat subjected to the political winds of the time, the statistical facts and figures are on the upward, with an estimation of approximately  170,000 cannabis patients in 2028, it is also important to point out that this number represents 1.8% of the general Austrian population, the net worth of medical cannabis could be estimated to be within the range of  €720m to €800m by 2028.

www.cbdwien.at the online Cannabis provider in Vienna

The Austrian governments very own statistics indicates that 23% of Austrian have used cannabis on minimal one time and an estimation of 45% of Austrian between the ages of 15 to 25 still consume cannabis till date. Since summer of 2017, Vienna has seen the rise or spread of several outlets where one can purchase CBD or CBDA products, but it would by wise to be careful when buying medical marijuana, CBD Oil Concentrates, CBD Isolate, CBD Capsules, CBD Edibles, CBD Tinctures ,CBD Vape Oil, CBD Skin Products, CBD Hair Products ,CBD Pet Products, there have been several reports of people who have either been overcharged for their CBD requirements or have gotten the wrong prescriptions from non-professional sellers.

Most CBD sellers in Vienna would like to give buyers the impression that they grow the plants by themselves while they are actually just resellers  who add synthetic stuffs in their CBD to increase the volume and boast profit. After an extensive check for quality and originality in CBD products this study could only identify one distributor (www.cbdwien.at  known as the green queen CBD also )whose products are truly authentic and CBD levels are precisely accurate.

Original CBD cortsy of greenqueen CBD vienna www.cbdwien.at 

Greenqueen CBD offers a wide range of CBD and CBDA products with specialist who can assist customers to get the exact CBD that meets their need, if you are a turist visiting Vienna and in need of any CBD products then greenqueen would serve you better as they also do door-door delivery, this means you can relax in the comfort of your hotel or accommodation and just visit www.cbdwien.at for any and all products that you might require and get it delivered to you anywhere in Vienna for free.