Category: Education

Kunle ADELABU Miss Adekeye Ayomide, a Senior Secondary School 1 student of Sun and Stars College, Ikorodu, has emerged the winner of the inaugural spelling Bee competition in Ikorodu. The event is in commemoration of the 2018 Children’s Day Celebration in Ikorodu division, Lagos, Southwest, Nigeria. She beat three other finalists at the grand finale of the competition held at the FunCity along Lagos Road, Ikorodu, on Monday, May 28, 2018. The spelling bee competition, which was tagged “The Power Of An Alphabet”, was organized by ATOMA men in conjunction…

Kunle ADELABU The 1994/95 set of the premier college in Ikorodu, Oriwu College (now model) Old Students Association of Nigeria (OCOSAN), has donated a common room for the use of the  boarding students and staff of the school, twenty-three years after graduating from the school. The Common Room, which is equipped with a 40inches Samsung television set, a DSTV decoder with subscription  and 20 benches, was handed over to the school management for the relaxation of the students on Thursday, May 10, 2018. Education District II of the Ministry of…

  The Lagos State Government said on Friday that the Federal Government’s school feeding programme had yet to take off in the state because of some logistics.   The state government said it was still assessing FG’s N70 feeding rate per pupil which it described as unrealistic, just as it has begun training of environmental officers who would screen the food vendors before the commencement of the programme.   Dr Idiat Adebule, the Deputy Governor and Commissioner for Education, said this in Alausa at a media briefing to mark the…

Our Reporter It was an emotional laden moment filled with joy, excitement and sense of fulfillment when Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi on Wednesday granted scholarship and N5million cash reward to the overall best graduating student of Lagos State University (LASU), Ogunsanya Fuhad Adetoro.   Adetoro, who is of the Faculty of Management Sciences, was announced as the best graduating student at the 22nd convocation ceremony held at the Auditorium Complex of the University in Ojo having scored CGPA 4.78.   Responding to Adetoro’s request for scholarship to go for…

Our Reporter As part of the continued drive of the administration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to train one million Lagos residents to code through the CodeLagos initiative, the State Government has scaled up its coding centres from 193 schools last year to 275 for the new term including 10 public centres. Among, the new coding centres is the newly equipped ICT Centre located within the premises of the Methodist Primary School, Ikorodu and named after Prince Abiodun Ogunleye, the former Deputy Governor of State. Others were Ikeja Secretariat Library, Ikeja…

Our Reporter Pleased with the success of the first phase of the CodeLagos initiative with over 15,000 individuals trained so far, Lagos State Governor, Mr.  Akinwunmi Ambode has approved the implementation of the next phase of the initiative, focused on expanding the reach and scope of the project to cater for more Lagos residents through its “In–School” and “Out-of-School” pathways.   CodeLagos, which has set the goal of teaching 1 million Lagos residents basic coding skills, was initiated in 2016.   Giving progress report on the progress of the programme and…

Kunle ADELABU -Conferencees propose way out of infrastructure problems in Africa’s education sector An elder statesman  and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has called for increased funding for the nation’s education sector.   He said there must be active and deliberate commitment by Nigerian governments to actively invest in all levels of education to promote availability, affordability and accessibility of quality education.   The Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who was the keynote speaker at the opening of the 7th International Conference on Infrastructure Development In…