Category: Education

Striking non-academic workers of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) have urged the state Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu to institute a panel of inquiry into the administration and finances of the polytechnic in the last four years. Mr Semiu Fasasi, Chairman, Non Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (NASUP), LASPOTECH Chapter, and spokesman for the other affected unions, made the call  at a media briefing on Wednesday in Lagos. Fasasi said that Sanwo-Olu should urgently come to the aid of the institution to prevent its fall. He said that the unions were against…

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Kunle ADELABU -Badly injured students moved to LASUTH The Tutor-General/Permanent Secretary, Education District II, Mr Ebenezer Olusanya, has stated that his administration is working towards making the Lagos State Government intervene in the infrastructural deficit in Ipakodo Community Junior Secondary School, Ipakodo in Ikorodu division, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria. He spoke with our reporter on Thursday(today) while supervising the movement of students of Ipakodo Community Junior School that were evacuated from other threatening blocks of classrooms in the school to a temporary structure at Majidun Secondary School, Ogolonto in Ikorodu. One…

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Kunle ADELABU & Wale JAGUN The collapse of a classroom on students at the Ipakodo Community Junior Secondary School in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Ikorodu, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria, on Tuesday, June 25, 2019, was the fourth of such incident since 2013, investigation revealed . Six students were affected in the latest incident. While two are critically injured and are still on admission at the General hospital, Ikorodu,  the other four have been discharged after treatments. THE IMPACT gathered that the hospital is considering transferring the critically…

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Kunle ADELABU About six students of Ipakodo Junior Community School, Ipakodo in Ikorodu West Local Council Development Area (LCDA) suffered varying degree of injuries as the wall and ceiling of their classroom collapsed during lecture period. The sad incident occurred today, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. The affected classroom was an old structure built by the first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande in the 80s. THE IMPACT gathered that the wall collapsed on JSS 2 and 3 students during lecture hours. When our reporters visited the school around…

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Our Reporter -Govt. Senior College, Ikorodu wins quiz competition Lagos State Government has urged school children to embrace the culture of reading books, saying that the advantages of using the library cannot be subverted for reading books online or on social media. The Permanent Secretary, Office of the Special Adviser on Education, Dr. Shamsideen Allison made the plea recently during the maiden edition of Lagos Reads Quiz competition organised for selected public schools in Lagos State and the unveiling of the Lagos State Library Board’s Mission and Vision Statements held…

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Wale JAGUN Jare OLUKOTUN The national body of Oriwu College Old Students’ Association of Nigeria(OCOSAN) has announced the postponement of the planned week-long activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the existence of the Ikorodu premier college. The cake cutting ceremony to mark the anniversary was observed amidst interaction between the old and current students  of the College on May 29, 2019,  the exact day the first college in Ikorodu was formed in 1949 by some prominent people in Ikorodu division such as  Late Papa C.O.S Benson aka (Baba Aladura),…

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The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) says it is set to hold the May diet of the Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) for teachers nationwide between June 7 and 8. The Registrar of the council, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, said this during a world news briefing in Abuja on Friday. Ajiboye said that no fewer than 30,000 prospective teachers would write the computer-based examination in 50 centres nationwide. ‎ “About 30,000 would-be teachers across the states of the federation and the FCT have registered for the examination. ”The examination would hold…

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