Category: Education

The Lagos State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, through the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), has officially released the approved 2025/2026 Harmonised Academic Calendar for all public and private schools below tertiary level operating within  Lagos State. This approval comes after an extensive and participatory process involving key stakeholders across the public and private education sectors, including school associations, proprietors, principals, education experts, and regulatory bodies. The final version of the calendar was ratified at a stakeholders’ meeting and subsequently received the approval of the Honourable Commissioner for…

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Kunle Adelabu The pioneer Head of Department of Physics, Lagos State University of Education, Dr Okedeyi Sakiru Abiodun, FNIP, Phd., has been promoted to a full professorship status. His appointment as a Professor of Environmental Physics, was announced by the institution on Thursday. Dr Okedeyi was promoted to an Associate Professor in May 2023, and bagged his Ph.D., at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State in 2012 in Environmental Management and Toxicology with Specialization in Radiation Physics. He was inducted as a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of…

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Kunle Adelabu -Closing June 30 The Ikorodu Division Peace Initiative Limited (IDPIL) has enjoined students in various public universities, polytechnic and monotechnic across the country that are indigenes or residents of Ikorodu Division, to apply for its annual educational support initiatives – Scholarship and Bursary Schemes worth of 30 million naira. The application portal, which was opened the first week of May, will close by the end of June. This year’s edition is the fourth edition of the scheme which started four years ago. In the last year’s edition of…

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Kunle Adelabu -State officials commend IKIDASS for investing in education The Ibeshe community, under the aegis of Ibeshe Kingdom Development Association (IKIDASS) and in conjunction with the Lagos State Government, has commissioned the Owode – Ibelefun Junior School, Owode – Ibeshe in Igbogbo/Bayeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA), as part of the initiatives to invest in the young ones by giving them good and quality education. The new school has a block of six -classrooms and 10 toilets constructed with the sum of N125million.The new school was handed over to…

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As part of his educational support initiatives, Hon. Aro Moshood Abiodun (AMA), a member of the Lagos State House of Assembly representing Ikorodu Constituency II, donated school bags and exercise books to students of Owode – Ibelefun Junior Secondary School, Owode, Ibeshe, Igbogbo/Baiyeku Local Council Development Area of Ikorodu Division, Lagos State, Southwest, Nigeria. The lawmaker donated a total of 204 bags and 1000 pieces of 60 – leaves exercise books, and commended the Ibeshe Kingdom Development Association (IKIDASS) under the Chairmanship of Asiwaju Kaoli Olusanya, for the laudable initiative…

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Kunle Adelabu The Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LSUBEB) has described the emergence of Mr Taiwo Odumbo as the new Education Secretary (ES), Local Government Education Authority (LGEA), Ikorodu Local Government, as a new dawn in the primary education sub – sector. Odumbo, who was until his emergence, the Principal, Lagos State University (LASU) International School, Ojo, assumed his new position at the LGEA Secretariat, Methodist Primary School premises, Ikorodu, on Wednesday. On assumption, the new ES was introduced to the stakeholders whom he met briefly inside the NUT…

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Jare Olukotun In an effort to reward excellent performance, Dr Akinola Ogunlewe STEM (AOSTEM) Education Centre, has celebrated 25 of its students that sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) also known as JAMB and scored 250 and above marks. 25 students of the AOSTEM Education center gave a good account of themselves. While Oretuyi Babajide Chinedu with 317 was the only student that scored above 300 marks, Maryam Aderoju scored 299 and Praise Oluwapelumi Kolade recorded 298 marks along with 22 other students scored above 250 marks.…

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Wale Jagun -As stakeholders call for more support for education Exceptional students during the week – long celebration of annual Children Education Fund (C.H.E.F) Week of the Igbogbo Students’ Union, (ISU) have been honoured as One – Day student officials. The symbolic handover of the leadership of the union to the students who emerged as champions in the weeklong academic competitions, was the major highlight of the grand finale of the CHEF Week 2025, organized to drum support for the development of education at the grassroots. Following their exceptional performances,…

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Mariam Akinloye -Grand Finale, presentations of gifts hold Wednesday Winners have emerged in the spelling bee and debate competitions among primary school pupils and students from junior and senior secondary schools within Igbogbo Kingdom in Igbogbo/Baiyeku Local Council Development Area (LCDA). The finals of the competitions organized by the Igbogbo Students’ Union (ISU) in commemoration of the 2025 Children Education Fund (C.H.E.F) Week took place at AOSTEM Centre, 1, Adeseye Ogunlewe Street, off Akin Ogunlewe Way, Apalura, Igbogbo, on Friday. This event marked one of the most impactful educational engagements…

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Mariam Akinloye In continuation of its effort to ensure inclusive education for all children, the Igbogbo Students’ Union (ISU), through the Children Education Fund Week (C.H.E.F) Committee, on Thursday, held the second event of the week by going on the street to call the attention of the public to the challenges of street begging. Chieftains of the ISU led over 60 students across various schools on the walk on major streets in Igbogbo to drive the message home, with participants carrying placards with inscriptions condemning street begging, encouraging mass school…

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