To lessen the burden of parents in the academic pursuit of their wards, Lagos State Government yesterday said it paid a total sum of N561, 346,100 for 44,005 (Five hundred and sixty one million, three hundred and forty Six thousand, One hundred naira ) on Senior Secondary School pupils who sat for this year’s May/June  West African Examination Council (WAEC).

Deputy Governor Idiat  Oluranti Adebule, who also superintend over the Ministry of Education made the disclosure during the Ministerial Press Briefing

Adebule said the payment was part of government’s commitment to lessen the burden of parents and to strengthen the growth of quality education

She disclosed further that, 44,032 students sat for the 2016 mock exam out of which 44,005 were certified fit to sit for WAEC from the state’s public secondary schools.

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The deputy governor said the government as parts of the measure to ensure security in the state public schools, constructed wall fences in some schools and partnered with the Nigerian Police Force and other security agencies, noting that the effort is yielding positive results as there is more security in public schools now than ever.

On infrastructural development, she  said the state had 1, 014 primary schools, 349 junior secondary schools, 319 senior secondary schools and five technical colleges.

Construction of more schools, she said, is in the pipeline to accommodate more pupils.

She also said the state initiated the ‘Support Our Schools’ project to accommodate partnership with individuals and organisations to improve the state’s education system, adding that government alone cannot meet all the requirements of achieving total quality education.

“We need support in the areas of libraries, classrooms, furniture, toilets, science laboratories and ICT rooms. I implore well-meaning individuals and organisations to key into this initiative to contribute and complement government’s efforts as investment in education are service to humanity,” she said.

Also speaking, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh, Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, said works are ongoing to build a Lagos State Digital Library which would be an online platform offering education content to residents.

Bank-Olemoh said the library project would be delivered in three phases and the first phase would be launched in September for the new school year.

He said the Agency for Mass Education would commence the registration of Continuing Education Centres in the state for data collection and proper monitoring.

On the ‘Kick Illiteracy Out of Lagos’ project, Bank-Olemoh said plans were on to partner with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and religious organisations to eradicate illiteracy and raise the literacy rate from 87 per cent to 95 per cent over the next three years.

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