Quality Education, Crucial to State’s Progress, Growth- LASG

Lagos State Government has stressed that quality education is crucial to the state’s progress and growth in this 21st century.

Executive Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board’s, LASUBEB, Wahab Alawiye-King, made the remarks at the commemoration of year 2022 International Day of Education, themed: ‘Changing Course, Transforming Education,” held in Ikeja.

Alawiye-King, therefore, promised not to relent in its efforts towards improving primary education in the state.

Recall that EKOEXCEL was launched in 2019 by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to provide quality education and up-skill teachers leveraging technology

Alawiye-King, commenting on this year’s celebration and EKOEXCEL’s strides,  said good education is the foundation for the better future the present administration wants for all Lagos state pupils.

While, highlighting the achievements of EKOEXCEL in just two years of existence, he said it would not relent in up-scaling the skills of teachers and improving pupils’ learning environment.

“The recently released EKOEXCEL 2020-2021 Endline Fluency and Numeracy Evaluation that showed EKOEXCEL pupils are making remarkable progress in oral reading fluency and foundational numeracy compared to their performance before the initiative’s commencement, is a challenge to us to up our game and we shall do just that so that by the next evaluation, we will have more progress to report”, Alawiye-King said

The Permanent Board Member of LASUBEB and oversight chair of the EKOEXCEL programme, Adebayo Adefuye, in his remark, disclosed that the initiative has big ambitions this year, with the total transformation of basic education the overarching goal.

According to him; “Just like the theme of this year’s International Day of Education ‘Changing Course, Transforming Education’, we at EKOEXCEL won’t relent until we completely change the course of public education in Lagos for the better. A total transformation of public primary education is our goal and we are happy we are on course”, Adefuye said.

He further stated, “EKOEXCEL has commenced a robust public awareness campaign which include driving enrolment and reducing the number of out of school children in alignment with the government’s ‘Leave No Child Behind Policy’ and boosting academic excellence from a foundational level in Lagos public schools.

“The others include engaging parents and communities on the need and importance of education and connecting citizens to the government’s economic growth agenda through the transformation of education. “