Category: Education

The Lagos State Government has released the approved 2020/2021 academic calendar for primary and secondary schools in the State. According to the calendar released by the Lagos State Ministry of Education, public and private schools will resume First Term academic activities on Monday, 21st September, 2020 and end on Friday, 18th December, 2020. The Second Term starts on Monday, 4th January, 2021 and runs until Friday, 16th April, 2021, while students will resume for Third Term on Tuesday, 4th May, 2021 and close on Friday, 6th August, 2021. The Director-General,…

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Wale Jagun The Permanent Vice Chairman, Lagos State Council of Obas and Chiefs and the Ayangbure of Ikorodu, His Royal Majesty, Oba (Engr,) Kabir Adewale Shotobi has reiterated his support for the Lagos State Polytechnic’s aspiration of transmuting into a University of Technology so  that it will be better positioned to serve the Ikorodu Community, Lagos State and the Nigeria at Large.  The royal father said that he once asked the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch A. Adeboye, to pray for the upgrade…

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Kunle Adelabu It will be an end of a glorious and eventful era in the history  of the premier College in Ikorodu, Oriwu Senior Model College, when the award winning Principal of the school, Alhaja Abiodun Ogunniyi, retires after 35 years of meritorious service to the teaching profession  in Lagos State. Alhaja Ogunniyi, who was posted to Oriwu Senior Model College, the number one school in Lagos State, on 20th December, 2012, will be retiring from active service on the 28th of September, 2020. Retiring school administrator is expected to…

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The Lagos State Examinations Board has announced new dates for the conduct of 2020 Screening Test into Lagos State Model Colleges and Upgraded Junior Secondary Schools in the State. A release issued by the Director, Lagos State Examinations Board, Mr. Supo Gbadegesin, stated that the Computer-Based Testing (CBT) version of the Screening Test is scheduled to commence from Saturday, 26th September – Wednesday, 30th September, 2020, by 9.00a.m daily at the Lagos State Examinations Board. He added that the Paper Pencil Testing (PPT) version is also slated to take place…

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Wale Jagun Lagos State Government has agreed to pay workers in state-owned tertiary institutions the new minimum wage starting from October this year. The agreement was reached on Tuesday at meeting with the leaders of the staff unions in Ikeja. A statement signed by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Mr. Tokunbo Wahab, said that the State Government took the decision to restore and sustain normalcy as all stakeholders collectively strive to ensure a guaranteed future for the students and institutions. It was gathered that workers across various…

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Oluwakemi Jospeh & Tawakalitu Ashimiyu -Institution maintains strict adherence with COVID-19 protocols. It was a great moment of relief on Monday, September 14, 2020, as students in Higher National Diploma I and II in the Lagos State Polytechnic resumed back on campus after about seven months that the institution, alongside other educational establishments, were closed due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic.  The Director, Information and Public Relations of the institution, Mr Lanre Kuye, had last week informed THE IMPACT that Higher National Diploma (HND) I and II students…

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Kunle Adelabu There is every possibility that the process of making the Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu main campus, a residential institution will commence this year after 42 years of its establishment. The acting Rector of the institution, Mr Olumide Olushola Metilelu, gave the assurance at the weekend in his address at the Stakeholders’ meeting on the presentation of the Ikorodu Sub – Region Master Plan, held at the 500 – Seater auditorium, LASPOTECH, Ikorodu main campus, on Friday, September 11, 2020.  Mr Metilelu stated that the state government is working…

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Primary schools in Lagos State will not resume on September 21, the state government said on Thursday, as it adopts phase re-opening of schools. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu had said recently that primary and secondary schools in Lagos State would resume on September 21, but said the date would be tentative. Special Adviser on Education to the Governor, Tokunbo Wahab, in an interview on Channels Television’s breakfast programme, Sunrise Daily, said even though it was announced that schools would reopen on September 21, it would be done in phases. “Primary school…

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Kunle Adelabu The management of the Lagos State Polytechnic has announced that students of the institution will resume in phases for the post COVID – 19 academic session. Governor of Lagos State, Mr Babajide Sanwo –Olu, had announced that tertiary institutions in the state should resume back on campus on Monday, September 14, 2020, after about seven months that they have been closed down due to COVID – 19 outbreak. According to Mr Lanre Kuye, the Director, Information and Public Relations of the institution, Higher National Diploma (HND) I and…

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Kunle Adelabu & Wale Jagun Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly’s Committee on Education have charged the state government to declare state of emergency on Odogunyan Junior Secondary School and relocate students to alternative accommodations on resumption. Chairman of the Committee, Hon. Yinka Ogundimu, made the call after a comprehensive tour of the school on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, as part of the visitation of the Committee to schools in the state to ensure compliance with COVID-19 protocols as schools in the state prepare to resume. Other secondary…

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