Category: Education

Wale Jagun In a bid to promote reading culture among primary school pupils in the state, the Lagos State Office of Education Quality Assurance has introduced an initiative, tagged “Read-Aloud, Lagos”, to create and stimulate their interests in reading books. The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs. Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, who disclosed this at a media briefing in Alausa, Ikeja on Friday, explained that the initiative was introduced to encourage all children, within the primary school age bracket in the State, to imbibe the culture of reading in order to…

The Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LASUBEB) is set to kick-start the distribution of food to primary school pupils at home. The Chairman of Lagos SUBEB, Mr. Wahab Alawiye-King, who disclosed this on Thursday when he visited the warehouse where the food palliatives were kept in Ikeja, noted that the initiative is part of the Presidential directive that the Home Grown School Feeding Programme must continue in spite of school closure. He explained that the government agencies involved have been working relentlessly for the past few weeks to ensure…

The management of the Lagos State Polytechnic has ordered her staff from level 1 to 12 to stay at home in line with the directive given by the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Sunday. The Governor who is the Moderator to the institution in an address ordered Civil Servants from level 1- 12 to stay at home for the next 14 days as part of the precautionary measure to contain the spread of the deadly Coronavirus. The release by the institution late evening on Sunday was signed by Mr Lanre Kuye,…

Wale Jagun As part of the efforts to contain and curtail the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, the Management of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) has announced the immediate suspension of academic activities until further notice. The Lagos State Government had on Friday, March 20, 2020, directed that all the tertiary institutions in the state should immediate closed down in view of the new cases of the disease discovered and as well as a way of containing its spread. According to the release signed by Lanre Kuye, Director, Information and Public…

The Lagos State Government has concluded plans to conduct promotion exercise for 4,942 Post-Primary School Teachers as part of efforts geared towards rewarding excellence in service delivery. Speaking on the conduct of the forthcoming promotion exercise for the teachers, the Chairman, Teaching Service Commission, Mrs. Olabisi Ariyo, disclosed that the exercise has been scheduled to commence with a Structured Training Programme (STP), which entails both the generic and professional programmes for all categories of eligible Officers between grade levels 06 -17 and will be handled by the Teaching Service Staff…