The Lagos State Government through the Office of Education Quality Assurance has designed an initiative, tagged “Read-Aloud, Lagos”, to create and stimulate the interest of school children in reading books.

The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, who disclosed this at a media briefing at the weekend in Alausa, Ikeja, explained that the initiative was introduced to encourage all children, within the primary school age bracket in the state to imbibe the culture of reading as well as increase their knowledge and improve their comprehension.

Seriki-Ayeni said, “As an education quality assurance person, I was moved by the conviction that children perform better when they are led in the act of reading by someone else.
Therefore, Reading-Aloud is expected to be the most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success”.

She further explained that the programme was initiated to bridge the identified reading gap among school pupils, revealing that the information available to the Office shows that the time currently allocated to reading, during and after school hours, is inadequate.

The Director-General, however, maintained that the reading ability of Children would greatly improve if they have role models to look up to, saying “Children should have role models that will...
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Good move.The fact that i can read and type this is all thanks to my teachers.

The truth is we already have too many books and more than enough readers. What is the point of being able to imbibe knowledge if not to better your surroundings? I don't see any of that happening in this country.