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SANWO-OLU COMMISSIONS 66-CLASSROOM BLOCKS IN FOUR LAGOS SCHOOLS
…As Governor connects 100 schools to broadband Internet to aid learning
…State to unveil 300 more education projects next week
Hakeem Smith, Chairman, Special Committee on Rehabilitation of Public Schools (SCRPS)
Four magnificent newly completed school buildings were unveiled on Thursday by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu across three Local Government Areas (LGA) in Lagos State.
The multi-level ultra-modern buildings are part of the infrastructure projects completed by the Ministry of Education under the Lagos Metropolitan Development and Governance Project (LMDGP), which is covering 970 basic and secondary schools across the State.
Sanwo-Olu inaugurated the school projects amid praises by teachers, students and their parents. As he stopped in each of the beneficiary schools to formally open the buildings, the Governor was warmly received by cultural troupes made up of pupils, singing in appreciation of the gesture.
Four-storey buildings of 18 fully furnished classrooms each were commissioned by Sanwo-Olu in Fazil Omar Senior High School, Iwaya, Yaba; Onike Girls Junior High School, Onike-Iwaya, and Igbobi Junior High School, Somolu. The fourth school project is in Akintan Junior Grammar School on Clegg Street, Surulere, where the Governor opened a single-story building of 12 fully furnished classrooms.
Sanwo-Olu said his administration’s intervention in education was predicated on revamping the learning environment and introduction on technology to raise quality and deliver excellent results.
He said education remained one of his Government’s building blocks to achieve its vision of Greater Lagos, adding that the projects would further strengthen the effort to achieve the goals in “Education and Technology” pillar of his T.H.E.M.E.S Agenda.
He said: “The move to actualise our Greater Lagos vision is hinged on delivering quality education as building blocks. We flagged off the upgrade of infrastructure in schools to deliver 300 classrooms, including seven new hostel blocks across our boarding schools.
“Some of the projects are being commissioned today and they include a block of 18 classrooms with administrative offices, library, laboratory, toilets, and water supply systems each at Igbobi Junior College, Fazil Omar Senior High School Iwaya and Onike Girls High School, Iwaya.
“We aggressively embarked on these projects to accelerate our children’s access to world-class learning environments, thereby providing requisite facilities and security in the schools that cut across Education Districts and Local Government Councils. All of these efforts are taken to expand access to quality education for our children irrespective of their location.”
In complementing the facility upgrade, Sanwo-Olu said the State Government had started to roll out fibre optics across the State-owned schools to aid learning through high-speed Internet connectivity.
Before end of the month, the Governor said broadband Internet infrastructure would be completed and commissioned in 100 schools selected for pilot scheme.
From next week, Sanwo-Olu disclosed that members of the State’s Executive Council would be commissioning iconic schools projects across the State, as part of the activities marking his second year anniversary in office.
The Governor acknowledged the national feats in academic recorded in the 2021 National Junior Engineers, Technicians and Scientist (JETS) Competition held last February in Abuja, in which pupils of Lagos State origin won 11 medals and 10 trophies in various categories of the academic contest.
Also at the recently concluded Maltina School Games, Lagos emerged the Overall Best State, clinching 21 gold medals. Sanwo-Olu described the feats as part of the results of his administration’s investment in education.
He promised to continue to improve the standard of education and quality of teaching personnel to make Lagos schools a positive reference point.
He said: “The infrastructure being put in place in our schools would amount to nothing if they were not complemented by competent, dedicated and passionate teachers. I assure all parents that the standard of education will continue to rise and we will not stop until Lagos schools become a positive reference point across the globe.”
Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo, said the Governor’s focus was not on infrastructure upgrade alone. She said the State’s intervention had also touched all elements of the value chain in education, including teachers’ recruitment and training, teachers’ rewards, curriculum review, investment in technology for learning, and provision of teachers tablets, among others.
She said the inaugurated projects were parts of the 1,097 projects being undertaken by the Sanwo-Olu administration, covering comprehensive upgrade of 970 public primary and secondary schools.
In the LMDGP, the Commissioner said the State Government had supplied 86,000 dual furniture sets to 775 schools, constructed 70 new school buildings, renovated 197 schools and built eight new hostel blocks in the State-owned boarding schools.
Adefisayo said: “The State Government’s ultimate purpose is to ensure that all students in our schools receive sound and quality education in a good environment. It is wonderful to see that these promises are being kept. In less than 2 years, the State Government has met every one of these promises to a significant extent.”
Chairman of Special Committee on Rehabilitation of Public Schools (SCRPS), Mr. Hakeem Smith, highlighted the details of the projects, pointing out that the intervention addressed spatial functionality, design efficiency, building durability, adequate ventilation and natural lighting.
He added that the Committee, since its inauguration in November 2019, had embarked on the construction of several classroom blocks, school hostel accommodation cutting across 100 primary and secondary schools in the State.
On the top most floors of the inaugurated schools are laboratories, assembly grounds and office spaces for teaching personnel.
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How National Assembly Allegedly Inserted N46billion, N90billion Projects To Pad Oyo, Enugu Federal Colleges Budgets – Report
BudgIT Foundation, Nigeria’s civic tech organisation, has revealed that the National Assembly in a budget padding spree of the 2024 Fiscal Appropriation Act, inserted over N100billion in the Federal Co-operative College in Ibadan, Oyo State and Oji River in Enugu State.
According to BudgIT report, the Federal Co-operative College, Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria, submitted a proposed budget of N1.5billion to the National Assembly.
The civic organisation, which raises the standards of transparency, citizen engagement and accountability, especially in public finance, said however that “The National Assembly inserted 182 projects worth N45.36billion and approved N46.9billion,” for the college.
Similarly, the Federal Co-Operative College, Oji River in Enugu State, South-East Nigeria, submitted a budget proposal of N12.8billion to the National Assembly, but the National Assembly sent back N103.6billion as an approved budget.
BudgIT which made the revelation in posts on its X account said, “Nigerians, there’s no easy way to say this, #TheBudgetisaMess.
“The Federal Co-operative College Ibadan submitted a proposed budget of N1.5 billion to the National Assembly. The National Assembly, @nassnigeria inserted 182 projects worth N45.36 billion and approved N46.9 billion.
“Is the National Assembly mining gold at the Federal Co-Operative College Oji River?
“How else do you explain 419 insertions and a N90 billion budget hike?
“FCC (Federal Co-Operative College) Oji River sent N12.8 billion to the National Assembly. The National Assembly sent back N103.6 billion as an approved budget!”
The organisation revealed that some of the inserted projects, most of which are projects outside the constitutional mandates of the colleges, include N500 million allocated to the college in Ibadan for “Construction of lightening facility within selected rural cooperators communities.”
Others are, N500 million budgeted for “Renewable energy intervention in selected cooperators communities,” N500 million budgeted for “Construction of solar powered street lights across selected communities for sustainability,” N500 million budgeted for “Energy poverty intervention in selected rural cooperators settlements.”
Another N500 million allocated for “Construction of sports complex, motorised borehole and flood lights for farming communities in Ipoti Ekiti,” in Ekiti State; N500 million allocated for “Construction and installation of solar street lights in selected locations in South West states.”
Others are, N498 million budgeted under the same Federal Co-Operative College, Ibadan, for “Construction of rural farming Nazareth road, Imeko,” N498 million allocated for “Construction of rural farming Lafenwa Alagbe road, Ilara,” N498 million allocated for “Construction of rural farming community Ona Odo Ilara road.”
Also budgeted under the college are, N498 million budgeted for “Construction of rural farming community Ayekoja road, Idofa,” N498 million budgeted for “Construction of rural farming community Sabo road, Owode,” and N498 million budgeted for “Construction of rural farming Obaladi Afon road.”
For Federal Co-Operative College, Oji River, Enugu state, the National Assembly allocated N500 million to the college for “Provision of motorcycles and tricycles to some youths in Ogun, Lagos, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti and Oyo states.”
Other allocations include, N500 million allocated to the college for “Construction of mini sports centre at Alor, Idemili South Local Government Area, Anambra State,” N600 million budgeted for “Construction of Fistula facility at National Obstetric Fistula Centre, Abakaliki,” Ebonyi State.
Also, N600 million was allocated for “Provision of empowerment of selected skilled youths and market women in Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states,” N500 million budgeted for “Construction of renewable mini solar grid and renewable all-in-one solar street lights and boreholes in Akinmorin, Afijio Local Government Area, and Ijomu Oro in Oyo Central and Kwara South Senatorial districts.”
Another N1.5 billion allocated for “Deployments of all-in-one solar street lights in selected communities in South East senatorial district of Rivers State,” “Provision of 90w all-in-one solar street lights in Eleme Local Government Area of district of Rivers State,” and “Provision of 100w solar street lights in various market squares and Kira-Bara-Alue communities in Tai Local Government Area in South East Senatorial District in Rivers State.”
Other inserted projects are, N1 billion allocated to the college for “Installation of all-in-one street lights in Andoni Local Government Area in Rivers State,” and “Furnishing of community town hall with ICT and others in selected areas of Rivers State.”
Another N1 billion was budgeted under the college in Enugu for “Provision of 100watt street lights in various secondary schools in selected schools in Rivers State,” and “Installation of 100watt all-in-one street lights in hospitals and health centres across South East senatorial district of Rivers State.”
Decrying the mindblowing budget padding, BudgIT Foundation said, “If we continue like this, where will it take our country?
“The 2025 Budget will soon be presented,
and insertions like this should not happen again.”
Sahara Reporters & BudgIT ( on X)
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