The Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said investment education is one of the tools that can end the poverty ravaging the country.
The governor stated this via Zoom during the two-day 2022 Lagos State Education summit held on Victoria Island.
Sanwo-Olu disclosed that his administration had intervened in over 1,000 education projects in the last three and a half years, saying education should be a major cardinal of any government.
He said, “Education is not just a pillar in one of our THEMES agenda, it is one of the major dividends of democracy and the cardinal objectives of any government. We see education as one of the tools that can end poverty in our system and we see it as one of the areas that can be fixed for generations to come.”
The state Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, noted that the government had implemented 210 out of 220 resolutions for the education sector.
“This summit is about audacity. Some of the outcomes of this summit will contribute to the process of solving education problems in Nigeria.
“The state has executed 1,400 projects since the inception of the administration. We have also employed over 7,000 teachers to replace our fast aging teachers and Lagos State teachers are the best paid in Nigeria,” she said.
The Vice-Chancellor, Pan Atlantic University, Nigeria, Prof. Enase Okonedo, in her lecture, lamented the decay in the education sector, saying the knowledge-based system that Nigeria now practices is no longer appropriate.
Likewise, the Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, said the focus of the interventions of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu-led’s administration was to ensure that the out-of-school children in the state were brought back to the classrooms.
Hazmat stated this on Wednesday during day two of the 2022 Lagos Education Summit.
He added that the essence of the government reforms and interventions was to ensure “every child that goes through the system comes out better and enhanced.”
Hamzat said, “In Lagos, It is important to create a sustainable education system fit for purpose and maintain the conversations that must be taken to the front of concrete steps for implementation.”
In her remarks, the Vice Chancellor, of Lagos State University, Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, commended Sanwo-Olu for his investment in education.
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