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*BREAKING NEWS*

*Dr. S'aidu Mijiyawa-led BOT and The Constitution of NAPPS, 2017, Restored by Corporate Affairs Commission* .

Pursuant to the Order of His Lordship, Hon. Justice D. E Osiagor of 25th February, 2025, the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria had restored the Dr. S'aidu Mijiyawa-led BOT and The Constitution of NAPPS, 2017 as presently published in the official website of the Corporation.

A letter to this effect signed by Ocha A. Imor, (the Compliance Officer of the Corporation), for the Registrar-General and a downloaded copy of the extant status of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools of Nigeria, are hereto attached for your confirmation.

This is a very cheering development for the advancement of our noble Association, under the leadership of Hajia Jubril Samira, PhD and Dr. S'aidu Mijiyawa, PhD.

Congratulations, NAPPS, Nigeria.

Hajia Samira Jibir, PhD.
National President.

Dr. Kayode Adeyemi
National Secretary .

Hon. (Barr.) Abitogun Oluwarotimi Stephen
National Legal Adviser.

🔴 *BREAKING NEWS: FEDERAL HIGH COURT NULLIFIES ALL ACTIONS TAKEN AFTER FEBRUARY 23, 2024 INJUNCTION*

*In a decisive ruling today, Tuesday, 25th February 2025, Justice Osiagor of the Federal High Court, Lagos has set aside all actions taken by Yomi Otubela and Co since the court’s order to maintain status quo on 23rd February 2024.*

The ruling mandates an immediate reversal of:
✅ Changes made at the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC)
✅ Decisions and alterations by Board of Trustees (BOTs)
✅ Implementation of the 2023 NAPPS Constitution
✅ Unlawful sealing of the NAPPS Lagos Secretariat
✅ Freezing of NAPPS Lagos State accounts
✅ Imposition of Executive Leaders over the duly elected NAPPS Lagos State officials

💥 *This judgment reinforces the supremacy of the rule of law and upholds the democratic structures of NAPPS Lagos State.*

Up NAPPS................!

*© NAPPS Lagos State Media & Publicity*

‘TIGHT CORNERS’

In the life of your school, there are many situations in which you will find yourself and it will appear as if you wouldn’t survive it. We have faced many of such situations in the past. One thing that I have discovered however is that at a point which you sometimes may not even know precisely, the problem just appear to evaporate. Let me share some of our tight corners which we never expected to come out of, but we actually survived and even made progress.

PAYMENT OF APPROVAL FEES.
When our school was approved in 1987, it was like a miracle because the officer in charge at the zonal office had told me frankly that the school would not be approved though we met the required standard, as I was not able to afford giving him the amount he demanded. He promised us however that the ministry would not disturb us about approval, and that we should just be content with running the school illegally. One day however, my wife challenged me that since the commissioner for education is a human being, I should seek her audience and explain myself to her.
I took up the challenge and went to the ministry of education at Abeokuta. I went straight to the office of the commissioner who was then a woman. The secretary asked me if I had an appointment with her, but I just told him that she would want to see me. I was then asked to come back by 2pm. As I was ushered into her office, she asked me, “Young man, what can I do for you?” I responded, ‘When I finished my youth corps, I decided to start a school with my savings and some loans but the school has not been approved because according to the Zonal Education Officer, you said the school should not be approved”. Surprised, she asked whether we have met the basic conditions for approval and I answered in the affirmative.
The commissioner then asked me go to the concerned director’s office and tell him that she wanted the file of our school on her table within ten minutes. Getting to the director’s office could not have been less than four minutes. By the time I told the director, he asked me, how I got to the commissioner’s office. While not even waiting for my answer, he practically ran with me to the commissioner’s office, to be able to get there within ten minutes. He submitted the file and bowed. After looking through the file, she asked him why the school had not been given approval, but before he could put his answer together, the commissioner authorized the approval and just told me that she was confident that I would be able to run a good school and that whenever she was in Ijebu, she would visit the school. When I got home, we celebrated, thinking that the battle was over.
The approval fee was N2,250 (Two thousand, two hundred and fifty Naira only). Some weeks later, I received a letter that if we did not pay the fees in another two weeks, the approval would be withdrawn. I knew where the battle was coming from so we started running up and down to be able to raise the money, all to no avail. I did everything that I could, but we could not raise the money. When all hope had been lost, I decided to write a letter to the ministry that since the given deadline was about one month to the end of the session, we should be given the grace to remain open to the end of the session, so that we might distribute the children to other schools before winding up! We could not just imagine how we could raise N2,250! It was a tight corner which we felt we could never escape from.
But guess what! before the date, God did it somehow through a source which we never expected. The money was raised and the closure of the school was averted.
Can you imagine not being able to raise that ridiculous amount!
There may be situations like that in the life of your school right now. It may not really be a payment to the government. It may be a loan repayment which you are looking at and can’t imagine how it would come, let me just assure you that somehow, the LORD will do it.

PAYMENT OF RENT.
The payment of rent was another big source of headache. We were never able to pay our rent as at when due. The compound in which we started the school comprised of two new buildings of four flats each. We started by renting two flats, one for school and one for residence. When the initial three months which we paid for expired, to pay the next month was a problem. At each point that we needed to pay, we would disappoint the landlord. However, despite the fact that we were not good tenants in terms of paying as at when due, we kept on taking more flats until we took up six out of the eight flats. I don’t know what made him to give more flats to us, but that was exactly what he did. We just appeared not to have enough to pay at the end of the month, but we kept getting more flats.
The landlord was based in Ibadan but a native of Ijebu, who would just come around during the weekend unannounced. One weekend, he came around unannounced and we were owing. When I heard the sound of a Mercedes Benz on that Saturday and I realized that it was the landlord, I became afraid and asked my wife, ‘What explanation shall we give baba for the two month arrears?’ We decided to hide and not show up that we were at home. Before hiding inside, I quickly called our first child, Lola and told her that the landlord had come and we didn’t want him to know that we were around. So she was asked to tell the landlord that we were not around. Lola was then probably about seven to eight years old. She quickly went downstairs, greeted the landlord and his wife. When they asked her about daddy and mummy, Lola innocently told them the truth; "Daddy and mummy said they are not at home!”
The landlord started lambasting us again, fully convinced that we were hearing him, “God bless you my daughter for telling me the truth. I wonder if they are thinking that this is their parents property, they must move out of this property, bastards!” The quit notice came the following week, but somehow, we did not move out as God took control.
In your own situation too, there may be quit notices from your landlord or even from your spouse. However, the truth is that if God is not yet ready to get you out of that property, even the landlord’s quit notice will not be of any effect. Don’t allow yourself to develop hypertension because of it. That same God that helped us in that situation is still on the throne and will help you out in Jesus name.

OUR GOOD NEWS THAT CREATED PROBLEM.
At a stage, we completed our residence and my wife said it would not be good for us not to tell the landlord. I tried to convince my wife that it could be risky as he may increase our rent but at the end of the day, we decided that we should inform him. Consequently, we travelled to Ibadan to see him and get him informed. We got there and informed the landlord that we had been able to put up a place as our residence which was not within the town. We made him to know that we would still continue to make use of all the apartments that we had been using for school. We noticed that his wife did not come out throughout the period of our discussion. Even when baba went inside to tell her the reason for our visit, she refused to come out. Then he prayed for us and we left, not knowing that our good news was bad news to them! I don’t actually know what their thought line was, but the steps which they took afterwards made us to conclude that we should not have informed them.
The following month, our rent was increased from N360 to N720per month for the six flats. We agreed to pay because we had no choice. The building we put up was a four bedroom bungalow which we intended to serve as our residence as we were even afraid to move the school to the permanent site due to the fact that it was at the outskirts of the town. We believed that the school could not survive moving to the site at once.
Then one month later he came to inspect the house and decided that we should repaint all the flats, which we also did. After repainting the flats, he came back and told us that we should have used gloss to paint the walls, whereas he originally used emotion paints. We also agreed, and started painting with gloss. On completion, he inspected the flats and appeared to be satisfied. Then the following month, he served us quit notice. In fact, he went to the customary court, settled them and we were asked to move out immediately. Can you imagine a court asking a tenant that is using six flats as well as temporary structures in the premises to move out with immediate effect!
Luckily for us, when the quit notice came, it was a few days to vacation. We just made up our mind that enough was enough! We decided to move to the permanent site, despite the fact that we had not put any structure in place. Consequently, during the holidays, we raised the fence of our land and constructed shed along the fence as temporary classrooms. The length of the shed was about 240 feet. Parents were then informed that we would resume the following term at the permanent site.
Three days to resumption, a rainstorm came and destroyed more than half of the temporary structure we made, pulling the fence down along with it. It was a devastating experience which really demoralized us. Had it been that we did not really make up our mind, we would have probably looked for people that would help us to beg the landlord for us to return to the old site. However, we had already made up our mind. One thing that really reduced the burden on us was that when we were about roofing the temporary structure, we wanted to use asbestos sheets to reduce heat, but could not get someone to sell to us on credit. A lot of disappointments in life turns out to be blessings in disguise. Had it been we used asbestos slates, the whole sheets would have been broken into unusable pieces but the roofing sheets were reused. It was indeed a disastrous moment in the history of the school. Among the proprietors that heard about it and visited us were Chief. (Mrs.) Sola Olunuga of Floret, Mrs. G.A. Osinubi of Gloria Schools and Mrs. Antonio of Bevola. The first two donated a bundle of roofing sheets, while Mrs. Antonio donated a ceiling fan. It was a tight corner which circumstances boxed us into, never expecting us to get out of it. Just as we got out of it and blossomed, so will be your own testimony in Jesus name.
Many parents withdrew their children initially, but after one term, most of them came back and the structures on ground gradually grew from the pitiable state of that time over the years to its present enviable state.
When the landlord discovered that we had successfully settled on the permanent site, he further sued us for N2 million damages. Through it all, he only succeeded in moving us to our permanent site to flourish, much earlier than we planned it. There are problems that God will use to take you to your place of fulfillment, may you experience such problems in Jesus name.

SAME DAY RESIGNATION OF FIFTEEN TEACHERS.
During the loan repayment crisis, a lot of things were upside down in the school. The loan could not be repaid as at when due and we could not pay salaries. In a situation like that, problems would just be multiplying. Then came July 2015, fifteen nursery and primary teachers resigned at the end of the session on the same day. It was more devastating because many of them were well trained teachers that have gone through various trainings in the Montessori method of education and were well experienced. It was as if the whole world would collapse on the school. You can imagine the bad publicity that such mass resignation would bring for the school. Guess what! the LORD took us out of it. Sincerely speaking, I don’t know how our Junior school survived it, but we did! Despite everything, some core staff remained which kept the boat afloat by the grace of God.
The experience may make you to conclude that it is not worth it to invest on the training of teachers but then we realized that it wasn’t by our own strength that we came out of such a time like that. Most teachers are with you because they need their salaries, one may understand if they desert you when the going gets tough or when they get better offer. However, it was a tight corner which many felt we could never escape.

The lessons which we learnt from our own tight corners were as follows;

Never Lose Hope.
‘And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren’. (Luk.22:31-32)

When you are boxed into any of your own tight corners, remember the scripture above. In it, Jesus told Peter that the enemy would scatter his life just as like when wheat is being sifted. However, the only prayer of Jesus for him was that his faith would not fail. In other words, that he would not lose hope. When hope is lost, it means everything is lost. When you see someone that committed su***de, it is just because he lost hope that the situation in which he found himself would never improve. Never lose hope in any situation, the devil, or the circumstances around you will make it to appear as if you can’t get out of the situation, but I have good news for you, it is just a lie, you will not only get out of it but actually share the testimony with others later.

Every Problem Has An Expiry Date.
If you buy any drug, check it very well, an expiry date will be inscribed on the package, so is every tight corner which you may find yourself as a proprietor. When a problem appears, it may have it’s duration but will expire one day, and guess what? You will survive it. However turbulent it may appear for you now, it is just matter of time, it will become history in the success story of your school.

You Are Not Alone.
When you are facing a problem as a proprietor, never succumb to the feeling that you are the only one experiencing it. There are numerous school owners that are going through the same challenges and probably worse situations. Consequently, you must never succumb to the idea that your situation is unique. There are a lot of situations that will definitely make you to suspect that it is your enemies that are at work. You may be right, as there are situations that may be the handiwork of dark forces, but if you cultivate the habit of believing that every uncomfortable situation is the work of the enemy, then, you may not be leaving the place of your herbalist, prophet, alfa or whoever is serving as your contractor in consulting God. However, if you believe that even if it is the work of the enemy, the scriptures says concerning such situations;

‘Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me:
whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake’ (Isa.54:14)

If you believe, all you need to do is to claim your victory, which was won for you by Jesus on the cross.

Learn To Hand Over To God, What You Can’t Handle.
Some of the challenging situations can be handled by you effectively, others may be handled with varying degrees of difficulty, there are many that you may not be able to handle on your own. If you discover that you find yourself in a tight corner and there is no way of escape, there is still something you can do; hand it ver to God! Such was the situation in which king Hezekiah found himself in the Bible, look at the way he handled it:

‘And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD’ (2Ki.19:14)

If you can learn to hand over to God, those matters beyond your capacity, you will see God settling the matter in a way that will make you to trust him more.

It May Be For Your Own Good.
We also learnt that there are terrible situations that may occur in the life of your school which may later turn out for your own good. For instance, all the trouble that we went through via our landlord might have been God’s way of moving us to our permanent site at His own time. Recently, I visited a proprietor who got some plots of land for his permanent site but since he was comfortable at the place he was using, he just built his residence and felt relaxed where he was. He just suddenly discovered one day that someone bought the land opposite him and started building a school. Incidentally the person was well known to him. Now he is thinking of selling the land and looking for another location to avoid unnecessary competition. It would have taken us a very long time to develop the site as we were so much apprehensive that the distance would affect our enrollment drastically. In fact, we were not planning to leave the former premises at all.
Despite it all, instead of nursing ill feelings towards our landlord for treating us that way, we thanked God for using him to speed up our movement. There may be a trusted staffer that suddenly leaves, don’t feel too disappointed, it may be the best time for him to leave for the future well being of your school.

CONCLUSION.
In the life of your school, you are going to meet with situations that will appear like being boxed to a tight corner, without any hope of escape. However, be assured that the difficult situation of today will become a testimony tomorrow. So shall it be for your school in Jesus name.

(Culled from LESSONS IN SCHOOL PROPRIETORSHIP by Dr. Mike Oluniyi)

STAFF WELFARE MATTERS: IT IS NOT ALL ABOUT MONEY.

Introduction.
In our last chapter, we were talking about how dangerous some staffers could be. In this edition, we are going the other way round. Yes, some staff can be treacherous, but we must not treat every staffer as if he or she is an agent of the devil sent to destroy us. We must remember that some of them are spending the most active years of their lives to work in our institution. We must also not forget that as much as there are treacherous staff, there are also inconsiderate proprietors. Consequently, we must imagine ourselves or our children in their shoes: We must imagine what it would look like to work for someone for such a prolonged period of time with nothing significant to show for it. We must therefore think about their welfare within the available resources. That is what this chapter is all about.
As a proprietor, you must pay attention to the needs of your staff. As you do it however, don’t expect payback. If you are expecting payback, you may be grossly disappointed later. To have your peace of mind, do it as unto God. If you do so, from our own experience God pays back in diverse ways.

IT IS NOT ALL ABOUT MONEY.
Often, when we as proprietors hear about staff welfare, our mind quickly goes to money, we have the erroneous feeling that staff welfare is all about money. Let me share an experience with you;
One day, our school nurse came to me that she wanted to be transferred to our school in Togo. When she made the request, I immediately concluded that there must be challenges in her marriage, a lady that was under thirty years of age with only one child with a good relationship with her husband could not have made such request under normal circumstances.
I consequently requested that she should see me later. When she arrived, I told her that we actually needed a nurse over there, but I wanted her to share with me a little bit about her marital life. She then went into a long story of how irresponsible the young man had been. The man according to her doesn’t care about her and her daughter, so she felt that it was better to go somewhere far away so that they would not be seeing each other. She had actually been staying alone with her daughter for over two years without any concrete effort on the part of the husband to restore the relationship. When I probed further, I discovered that the guy was a worker in his church, I also discovered that since the two years that they have been apart, he had not taken another wife. After hearing it all, I told her that though she was needed in Togo, I would prefer to intervene in her family and get the family restored rather than send her to Togo. She was disappointed but she couldn’t do anything about it. Sometimes a staffer may not know what is best for himself or herself, it may take someone like you to help to behold the proper perspective.
I got the contact of the husband’s pastor and that of her husband and asked her to leave. After a lot of efforts which took a considerable chunk out of my time, to the glory of God, the family was restored and God has added to the family. Today, the lady and her husband sees me as an instrument that God used to save their home and are so grateful for it. There are so many things you may do to better the lot of your staff which may or may not actually involve money.

ACADEMIC WELFARE.
What of their academic welfare? There are certain things you can do which will advance them academically without hurting your school. I used to tell them that if you are with me for three years and you don’t improve your qualifications, I’ll send you away. Consequently, many of them came in, in those days with school certificate but became graduates after some years with our encouragement. You can do it too.
There was a lady that came in as a nursery helper / bus conductor, it was in our school that we arranged for her to rewrite her school certificate examination, she subsequently went on to obtain NCE and later degree. She grew over the years from being a teaching assistant to nursery teacher to nursery coordinator, assistant Headteacher and eventually the Headteacher of our Nursery and Primary School. When she was leaving to establish her school years later, she did not even give us appropriate notice. In fact she left with fourteen other teachers on the same day! during the period of the worst crisis we have ever experienced as a school. However, it doesn’t really matter, there are many of them that are so grateful for the impact that we had upon their lives so much that even long after they left our school, they are still endeared to us.

EMOTIONAL WELFARE.
Some of them are wounded emotionally, it may be through your interactions with them that you will discover, and be of help. Many of us, because we know that some staff can be treacherous, also become unfriendly, indifferent, and sometimes callous (if I may use that word) Some of them are going through tough times, but kind words may help them to pass through such tough times, especially when it comes from someone like you.
I was discussing with one of our female staff recently in the presence of my wife, and asked her what she was going through. My wife was surprised at such a question but I told her that I noticed that for several days, she had not been her usual self, I perceived that she was going through something. She told us that I was right and started crying, she was almost forty years of age and not yet married. According to her, she saw one of those that they were in school together recently. While she kept herself in those days, the lady was so promiscuous and underwent abortions severally, yet she is now happily married with her own children, whereas she that kept herself is still without even any serious man who is wooing her. We allowed her to pour out her heart before saying anything. I then called her attention to the following scripture

'For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.' (1Cor.13:9)

I made her to realize that I don’t actually know how to console her but a careful look at the scripture above makes us to realize that however knowledgeable you are about your life, you don’t know it all. There are questions about your life or about the life of others that as much as you may try, you may not be able to explain certain things. It takes God to know the whole story.
Secondly I told her that though it is not a desirable situation, there are worse situations. I gave her an example of a vibrant female proprietor who got married, and for several years without any child. The doctors then said she would need to undergo an operation to remove fibroid which she submitted herself for. In the process of the operation, something went wrong which consequently affected her sight as well as made her to become a shadow of her former self as she could not really coordinate herself properly any longer. At the end of the day, the husband eventually married another lady that later had children for him and separated from his wife. Really, nobody would blame him for doing so because of some circumstances surrounding the case. Now, I asked her the question; ‘Would you like to exchange your position with hers?’ In response, she shook her head that she wouldn’t. Yet the woman to which it happened is grateful to God for being alive. She still runs her school with the help of those around her. To demonstrate her appreciation to God, she even has a non governmental organization that takes care of widows. Finally, I pointed her attention to what Job said:

'Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him:..'(Job 13:15)

I used it to encourage her that what is happening to her must not be allowed to affect her spiritual life. If she could continued to trust God despite everything, one day all that are happening to her would become testimony. By then she had brightened up. I then prayed for her and she left with a joyful countenance. (To the glory of God, she is happily married today. Dear proprietor, that could be more than giving out money. There are people who committed su***de because they did not have someone to give them hope through the right words.
Be friendly with your staff, but be firm. They must know the boundary line between your being nice to them and their call to duty.

ASSET ACQUISITION.
Before I talk about salary which is the ultimate source of welfare financially for your staff, let me share some experience of some of the other things we have done to help them which you also may do. In most schools, you may not be able to compete with the government as far as salary is concerned, but there are some ways in which you may help them to ensure that they also achieve what their friends in the public service are achieving. Take for instance land, some years ago, we announced that any member of staff who had spent at least five years was entitled to either a land or car loan. It may appear big to you, but a good percentage of us can do it conveniently. We achieved the land loan by getting land on the outskirts of the town where land was not yet so expensive and giving out plots to the staff who were qualified, to be paid back through their salaries. For several of them, when they were ready to lay the foundation, we donated 500 blocks, one tipper each of granite, sharp and soft sand, just to encourage them to do it. We were also able to get cars for some of the senior officers which they paid back in installments. At your own level, it may not be car but motorcycle or any other equipment that may enhance their lives. The land or vehicle was purchased in the name of the school, to be paid back in some years. It was when they completed the payment that it became their own legally. I noticed that it helped them a lot.
Don’t worry that some will still be ungrateful. There was a particular staff that we were paying full salary while on a full time course for first degree at Tai Solarin University of Education, we bought the land on which he built his residence, we were the one that bought his first car for him on which he paid interest free ridiculously low installments. Can you believe that when he was going to leave, he did not give us one month notice? Apart from leaving unceremoniously, he was still saying ridiculous things about us! Despite all such, you must still think about how to put smile on their faces.

STAFF COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES.
Another way of helping them which we have successfully done is the issue of staff cooperative society, which you must ensure is registered with the government. When we were going to start, I called for a staff meeting and explained to them the advantages of having it. I made them to realize that often when they go to the Bursary to ask for IOU, it is often not convenient for the school, but if we have the cooperative society, it would help everyone. I made it mandatory for every member to contribute a minimum of N2,000 which would be deducted at source from their salary monthly. That was where problem started, with many saying that it should be voluntary, some said they had other cooperative societies while some gave other reasons. At the end of the day, I realized that for the plan to work, I had to make it mandatory so that the funds would grow at a fast rate and secondly so that there wouldn’t be sabotage. I therefore put my feet down that it had become a school policy and that anyone that was not ready to go along with us should consider resigning his or her position. That was how we were able to take off effectively. To encourage them, my wife and I also joined and we made our own contribution so high that there were immediate funds. The staff cooperative reduced the request for IOU and it helped them to be able to achieve quite a number of things including the payment of school fees for those on different courses for which many appreciated us. The assets of the society grew to almost N10 million before the bank loan crisis came and we were initially not able to remit deductions from salaries. I later asked the bursary unit to stop all deductions and we were only doing skeletal services. Recently, it was fully restored to normalcy to the glory of God, and the financial assets growing at a very fast pace.

SALARIES.
Basically, salary is the first consideration of staff anywhere. Once salary is delayed or unpaid, most staff will forget every other good thing which you have done for them. Unfortunately, many of us owe salaries. As proprietors, there are a lot of situations in which we find ourselves which often make salaries to come late;
• Low enrollment.
• Debtors.
• Infrastructural developments.
• Other important school expenses.
• Over staffing.
• Loan repayments.
• Low income during holidays
• Unforeseen circumstances etc.

However, you just need to know that nothing gives your school bad publicity more than unpaid salaries. When you don’t pay salaries, your staff will expose you by buying things on credit and promising their creditors that they will get paid when salaries are paid. You can just multiply the number of your staff with the people that would have inadvertently been told that you are not paying salaries when due! Apart from buying things on credit, they will also complain to one or two people that they are under one form of difficulty or the other because you are owing. Some of those that hear about it from your staff will help to spread it all over. Because those who are speaking ill of your school are not in your shoes, they can open up their mouth and say terrible things about the school probably out of envy. The negative publicity will definitely affect your enrollment and give your competitors an occasion to reduce you. We have been there before, as there was a time that we were owing as much as six months salaries due to complications arising from loan repayments. It was a terrible situation which we could not do anything about at that time. My advice to you will be; DON’T OWE STAFF SALARIES. It’s effect on the image of your school and consequently, the enrollment is devastating. I don’t know how you will achieve it, but please plan and pray towards it. It is better for your salaries to be low than for you to owe.

CONCLUSION.
When you consider all that I have shared above, you will agree with me that staff welfare is not just all about money. It is not just paying salaries and spending money to make staffers happy, but goes much beyond that. However, the payment of salaries must be given prime place because you will actually lose more than you gain, due to the bad publicity that non payment of salaries attract to your school.
God bless you with the idea and resources to pay as at when due in Jesus name!

(Culled from LESSONS IN SCHOOL PROPRIETORSHIP by Dr. Mike Oluniyi)