Lagos schools receive N268m

The Lagos State Government has given the 134 public secondary schools in the state the sum of N268m.

Each of the school is to receive N2m.

This came as the state Governor, Babatunde Fashola, said that only an All Progressives Congress-led government could sustain the education polices inaugurated by his administration.

Fashola stated this during the 2014 edition of the Governor’s Education Award in Ikeja, Lagos on Wednesday. The award is a component of the Lagos Eko Secondary Education Project.

The governor, who noted that the initiative would encourage competition in schools, urged the people of the state to continue to support the APC.

He said, “I can promise you that an APC government will continue this project. But it is for you to secure the continuity of this project by voting to elect an APC government at the next election.

“If you are a principal, vice-principal, a teacher, a student, a parent or a guardian who have benefited from this project, it is only your votes that can secure the project for you. If you have benefited from our vacation jobs, or you want to benefit from it, you know what to do with your votes when the time comes.”

Highlighting the success of the project, Fashola said, “Apart from the school results that have improved, the project has helped our public schools to procure 839 projectors, 753 Internet modems, 10, 441 softwares, and 656 generators. The initiative will also help provide 525 libraries, 305,000 textbooks, 10, 899 reference materials as well as to train 16,832 teachers and 2,609 principals and vice principals.”

Meanwhile, the state government has agreed to offer international leadership training to 12 top principals, just as it promised to establish Power Kids Club in the best 50 junior secondary schools in the state.

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