EDUCATION: LASG URGES STUDENTS, TEACHERS TO ENSURE EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE IN Y2024
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The Lagos State Government has called on educators, support personnel, learners, and students to make 2024 a year of exceptional achievement in all aspects of teaching and learning as classes resume for the second semester of the 2023–2024 academic year.
When Mr. Jamiu Alli-Balogun, the Commissioner of Basic and Secondary Education, visited several schools in Lagos on Monday to observe students and children’s return for the second term, he delivered the advice.
He expressed the government’s desire to make sure that the state’s limited resources are used to safeguard the safety of students, children, and school staff in what appears to be a New Year’s message to education stakeholders in primary and secondary schools around the state.
Alli-Balogun also restated the resolve of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s administration to upscale school feeding programmes in public schools to boost pupils’ welfare, improve attendance and reduce the menace of out-of-school children in Lagos State. He revealed plans to recruit new teachers across various subjects and classes which is expected to further improve the capacity of students to learn more under qualified teachers.
“Many of our students, pupils and teachers made us proud in 2023 individually or as representatives of various schools, this naturally encourages the State Government to do more. The present administration is also pleased with the level of support for interventions, collaboration, and initiatives in the education sector. Therefore, it’s expected that all stakeholders will aim higher for better performance in the second term of the 2023/24 school session’’, he noted.
During the visit, the Commissioner also admonished students to stay off drugs, shun cultism, and avoid gang wars and examination malpractices, saying “The energy for such vices can be diverted to various co-curricular activities in schools and sometimes supported by various non-governmental organisations”.
He assured education stakeholders that the State Government will continue to motivate school personnel with improved welfare, prompt payment of staff salaries and top-notch capacity development.
Alli-Balogun stated that the quest to improve the employability of youths in Lagos State will also be boosted in Y2024 with more intervention in the area of vocational and skills acquisitions in the State. He emphasised the need for parents and guardians to pay tax as at when due for the benefit of society, adding that, consequently, LASRRA registration and Tax Certificate shall be the condition for the registration of both BECE and WAEC SSCE in the State.
Alli-Balogun assured all stakeholders that together, they will create hope for future leaders by pioneering transformative solutions to Education Governance in Lagos State.
Some of the schools visited by the Commissioner and his team within Dairy Farm School Complex, Agege, are District Junior College, Sango Junior Secondary School (an Inclusive school) and Sango Senior Secondary School among others.
The team later moved to Idimu to inspect the resumption of students at Local Government Primary School, Community Nursery and Primary School, Olorunfunmi Junior and Senior Grammar School and Idimu Junior High School.
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