Category: Education

Wale Jagun Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has directed all tertiary institutions in the State to resume new academic sessions on September 14. The Governor also asked Primary and Secondary schools in the State to resume September 21. An aide to the Governor, Mr Wale Ajetunmobi posted the information on his Facebook  page on Saturday. “Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, this afternoon, directs all Lagos tertiary Institutions to re-open on September 14. Primary and secondary schools to resume Sept 21, tentatively” Ajetunmobi posted on his page However, THE IMPACT gathered that…

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Wale Jagun Prof. Wahab Elias Olukorede, an illustrious Ikorodu son, has been elected as the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academics) of the Lagos State University by the Senate of the institution. According to a release by the institution’s Centre for lnformation, Press and Public Relations (LASU CIPPR), the election, which took place on Wednesday, 26th August, 2020, saw Prof. Wahab defeated the other candidate for the position, Prof. Ayodeji Abari, by 88 to 43 votes to emerge winner. Prof. Wahab, a Professor of Sociology and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, will…

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Wale Jagun Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has inaugurated the 12th Governing Council of the Lagos State Polytechnic to administer the affairs of the institution in the next four years. In a release signed by Mr Lanre Kuye, the Director, Information and Public Relations, LASPOTECH, on Wednesday, 26th August, 2020, he stated that the chairman of the Governing Council, Professor Rasheed Kola Ojikutu, and seven other members of the Council were inaugurated. Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, while speaking at the inauguration ceremony held at the State house Alausa, Ikeja,…

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Kunle Adelabu The Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo – Olu has charged the newly constituted Governing Councils for the State owned tertiary institutions to assist the government in the achievement of its development goals by running the institutions that they have been put incharge smoothly. Sanwo-Olu officially inaugurated the Governing Councils for four State-owned institutions – Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH), Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED), at a ceremony held in the Banquet Hall of the…

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Maryam Akinloye Some concerned residents and parents of the students attending Odogunyan Junior Grammar School, Odongunyan in Ikorodu North Local Council Development Area, have described the report  by an online news platform that the school prevented its students from collecting their West African  Examination  Council (WAEC) Number as untrue and a figment of the reporter’s imagination. The online news platform had, according to report, reported that students of Odogunyan Junior Grammar School were denied the collection of the WAEC Exam Number by the school. THE IMPACT newspaper’s attention was drawn…

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Wale Jagun Keke Senior Grammar School, Agege, Lagos, has emerged the winner of the Y2020 Lagos State Schools Governor’s Quiz competition with 14 points. Oriwu Senior Model College, Ikorodu with 12 points and Lagos State Senior Model College, Kankon, with 10 points for the second and third positions respectively at the competition held on Friday.. Speaking at the grand finale of the competition for Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in the State, the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo revealed that this year’s competition held virtually is in…

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Wale Jagun Ahead of the partial resumption by terminal students, the Lagos State Government has intensified the periodic fumigation/decontamination of all public secondary schools. In a release on Saturday by the Permanent Secretary, Office of Environmental Services, Mrs. Aderonke Odeneye, it was stated that majority of the public secondary schools in the six educational districts have been reached. While adding that the exercise was part of the resumption protocol/guidelines for the secondary schools in the State, Odeneye emphasised that Lagos has continued to adopt measures to ensure that the spread…

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Wale Jagun The Lagos State Government has directed all the Senior School 3 (SS3) and Technical Study Three (TEC3), students in both day and boarding schools in the state to resume on Monday, August 3, 2020. The directive was in line with the Federal Government’s pronouncement, directing students in exit classes across the country to resume on Tuesday, 4th of August, 2020 for revision classes ahead of their forthcoming examinations. The Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, who disclosed this on Tuesday in Alausa, Ikeja, stated that this is…

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