Category: Education

The fourth edition of ReadySetWork, RSW, initiative by the Lagos State Government kicked off on Saturday, November 23,, 2019 with strict warning to the participants to be guided by the RSW rules or get disqualified from the programme. The programme which would continue for the next 12 Saturdays of 6 weeks interactive training session and 6 week on line session within the campuses of Lagos State University, LASU Ojo and Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu was flagged off at both institutions. The students were advised to play by the set of…

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Wale Jagun The first Secretary to the Lagos State Government and former Commissioner for Education, Asiwaju Olorunfunmi Basorun, has charged administrators and teachers in public schools across Ikorodu Division to always bring the state of infrastructure in their respective schools to the attention of political leaders in the division. The elder statesman gave the charge at the award ceremony organized in honour of Mrs Iyabo Agnes Elusakin, the Best Teacher in Nigeria and Alhaja Ogunniyi, who was honored for her feat in 2017 when she emerged as the Best Principal/School…

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Kunle Adelabu The 2019 Best Teacher in Nigeria, Mrs Iyabo Agnes Elusakin, and Principal of the Oriwu Senior Model Ikorodu, Alhaja Abodun Ogunniyi, were on Thursday, November 21, 2019, honored by the Ikorodu Division Women Forum of the All Progressives Congress (APC). At the well-attended ceremony held at the Ikorodu Teachers House located withn the premises of Oga/Aayngbure/Methodist Primary Schools in Ikorodu, the two outstanding teachers were presented with Excellence Awards. While Mrs Elusakin was honoured for emerging as the 2019 Best Teacher in Nigeria, Alhaja Ogunniyi was honored for…

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Kunle Adelabu State officials of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, led by its Deputy State Chairman, Comrade (Mrs) Bolanle Adomeh, and members of the Endwell Scheme Board, on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, visited Ikorodu to sensitize teachers on the retirement initiative started by the board about 4 years ago. The event took place at the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Secretariat hall located within the Ayangbure/Methodist/Oga Primary Schools premises, Allison Street, Ikorodu Garrage in Ikorodu. The visiting State officials stated that the sensitization is necessary because only 35 teachers out…

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Kunle Adelabu & Temitope Mistura Owolabi (SIWES Student) It was yet another day of honour for Mrs Iyabo Agnes Elusakin, the 2019 overall best teacher in Nigeria, on Wednesday, November 20, 2019, as she was honoured with award of Excellence and gift item by the Comrade Olufemi Fakolade led Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Ikorodu branch. The award was in recognition of Mrs Elusakin’s heroic feat for emerging as the best teacher nationally in October while she was a teacher in Oriwu Senior Model College, Ikorodu in Ikorodu Division of…

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The Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board, LASUBEB, Mr. Wahab Alawiye-King has called on parents of primary school pupils to monitor the usage of social media platforms by their wards. Alawiye-King made the call on Thursday during a sensitisation programme organised by the Guidance and Counselling Department of LASUBEB on “The Effect of Social Media on A Growing Child” at Agidingbi Primary School, Ikeja, Lagos. While noting that it might not be totally possible to debar the pupils from using the internet, he maintained that parental involvement and control…

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Kunle Adelabu Vision Rescue, a non-governmental body of former students of Ipakodo Grammar School in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division of Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria, on Friday, November 8, 2019, distributed educational materials to 40 students in Ipakodo Grammar School. The beneficiaries of the educational materials were students that are academically brilliant but needing support . Among the materials distributed were textbooks for subjects such as English Language, Mathematics, Government, Chemistry and Accounting among others, Mathematical sets, notebooks and pens. At the brief ceremony which took…

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In continuation of the sensitisation programme for 2019 Ready.Set.Work, RSW, programme which started at Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo on Thursday, the Special adviser to the Governor on Education, Barr. Tokunbo Wahab on Friday disclosed that 2,000 final year students of Lagos State Polytechnic, LASPOTECH, will also benefit from the initiative. Addressing the students today at the Ikorodu campus of the institution, the Special Adviser, who was represented by the Director of Accounts, Office of the Special Adviser on Education, Mrs. Lola Akinsola stated that the 2,000 beneficiaries will be…

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