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Focusing on the first E in our THEMES+ agenda, which is Education and Technology, the Tolu Schools Complex in Ajegunle sits on nearly 12 hectares and serves about 20,000 students across 36 schools, both primary and secondary.

Before the upgrade, many of the buildings were in poor condition. Today, the entire complex has been rebuilt and expanded, marking its most significant transformation since it was established over 40 years ago.

New classroom blocks have been added to reduce overcrowding. The facilities now include a football pitch, sports courts, a health centre, a fire station, and essential services like solar power and improved water systems.

There is also a clear focus on inclusion. Dedicated buildings for students with disabilities have been introduced, along with lifts to make movement easier within the complex. A vocational centre is now in place, offering training in practical skills such as tailoring, plumbing, and masonry.

With an ICT hub and a central laboratory, students are better positioned to engage with science and technology in a more hands-on way.

Focusing on the first E in our THEMES+ agenda, which is Education and Technology, the Tolu Schools Complex in Ajegunle sits on nearly 12 hectares and serves about 20,000 students across 36 schools, both primary and secondary.

Before the upgrade, many of the buildings were in… https://t.co/S0ChlCL0Hk pic.twitter.com/qxHMbRFLIZ

— Babajide Sanwo-Olu (@jidesanwoolu) April 6, 2026

Overall, the project creates a more supportive and functional learning environment for a densely populated community.

Focusing on the first E in our THEMES+ agenda, which is Education and Technology, the Tolu Schools Complex in Ajegunle sits on nearly 12 hectares and serves about 20,000 students across 36 schools, both primary and secondary.

Before the upgrade, many of the buildings were in… https://t.co/S0ChlCL0Hk pic.twitter.com/qxHMbRFLIZ

— Babajide Sanwo-Olu (@jidesanwoolu) April 6, 2026

It's actually the biggest in the world

This man is still trying but some confused people like passing his achievements to that of Chicago bobby that achieved nothing

Wow! The biggest in the world.

Oh dammmmmmnn biggest and largest in the world


I hope i didn't follow any pattern?

Waooo this is really massive.

To some people it doesn't matter if you don't build any school for 8 years, but they will have something bad to say about this

Hope they also have the biggest teachers and facilities?





No be all these kind of Guvnor Amuneke projects sha

christejames:
Hope they also have the biggest teachers and facilities?

No be all these kind of Guvnor Amuneke projects sha

Okoshuku, direct your question to your Governor building water fountain and digging gutters for you lot.

Biggest in where?
Make una dey do una linus small small na 😄😄
Wetin be this😄

Let's stop the bragging of "it is the biggest in Nigeria/Africa...." rehotoric.

The best schools in the world are not by size.

The school is big and beautiful. Fine.

The adminsitrators should ensure standard is maintained.

I can't find any big school in the picture

Hope it is not audio?

LZAA:
Biggest in where?
Make una dey do una linus small small na 😄😄
Wetin be this😄

Don't mind them jare... I wish Peter obi just lay a school foundation when he was governor... They would have understand what we call standard school 🏫

Lovit:
I can't find any big school in the picture

Hope it is not audio?

Alex Otti is a good example... The best social media governor so far. Hope all the governors expecially in south East emulate him

I wish all states could just give more to her citizens, especially the Northern states who seem to understand that being in power is a right to embezzle.

Big for nothing. Tinubu cannot produce any meaningful project.

"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" 😂

I seriously doubt that claim, though. We have some large schools in this country that can compete anywhere. If we’re talking elite standards, Topfaith in Akwa Ibom easily comes to mind, and of course, you can't overlook Grange School in GRA Ikeja etc. Those schools are really large.

Lovit:
I can't find any big school in the picture

Hope it is not audio?

No sir, it's actually a massive modern infrastructure. I pray lack of maintenance no kill am.

Guy wise up. The schools were built by Lateef Jakande. The present administration can only renovate it. Whats the big deal renovating.

adamkkk:
This man is still trying but some confused people like passing his achievements to that of Chicago bobby

Lovit:
I can't find any big school in the picture

Hope it is not audio?

It's a huge complex that houses over 20 schools. Emphasis on complex not building.

The governor is trying. Roads are better and many more. Education is a good environment is very important for our kids.

While Oga Alex was commissioning Fountain and Aba residents celebrated JB sign posts

30 schools in one complex. THAT'S IMPRESSIVE.

This is what we call VISIONARY LEADERSHIP.

Peter Obi take note. 📝

Because I heard you didn't build even half school as governor of Anambra state.

Only Breweries everywhere. Plus million pounds house in London.

Be cautioned, you this man.

I attended unity secondary school;one of schools in tolu complex. Unity secondary schools happens to be the oldest among about 16 secondary schools in the complex. Tolu complex was built by Lateef Jakande in the 80's. These government schools were built for those that cant afford expensive schools.

Obakoolex:
Waooo this is really massive.

To some people it doesn't matter if you don't build any school for 8 years, but they will have something bad to say about this

Yea cause he renovated the ones he met and kept them on top on all educational ranking

Till date Anambra still has the cleanest schools in the country

If i ask you what your own state did same period you will go offline

A nice one for educational research and survey. Oya edu students, proceed to Tolu schools.

adamkkk:
This man is still trying but some confused people like passing his achievements to that of Chicago bobby

You're not a Lagosian so you wouldn't understand how things work in Lagos.

In Lagos, no Gov comes with his plans. Just recently, Lagos Roadmap for 30 years, was launched and no individual Gov can alter it.

This is a man that did not build even a single community school here talking about the benefits of education. A man that increased tertiary tuition over 500% and was bold enough to say that "education is not for the poor". Hypocrisy of the highest order!

You are building schools and paying teachers peanuts

Okoyeeboz:
Okoshuku, direct your question to your Governor building water fountain and digging gutters for you lot.

Should Lagosians direct their own questions to the performance records of progressive UPN governor Jakande who built the school some 46 years ago, before Sanwo Olu renovated it.

The school was abandoned by his predecessors.

Splashme:
The first civilian governor of Lagos State, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, on Tuesday, said that the cancellation of the Lagos metroline project in 1985 was a major mistake and disservice to many Nigerians.

Jakande spoke in Lagos during the launch of a book which chronicled his life in politics and journalism.

The book, entitled, ‘Jakande: Leadership in Action’ is written by Dr. Bola Olaosebikan, who told the audience at the event that the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was not responsible for the cancellation of the project.

Jakande said, “Reflecting on the metroline project, I think it is a major disservice to many Nigerians. Imagine how many people would have benefitted. It would have made life easier and changed the face of transport in Lagos. Whoever cancelled it or gave the advice towards its cancellation didn’t do right.”

The former governor asked Nigerians not to vote for unserious leaders in the coming polls, saying the elections presented Nigerians with a good opportunity that should not be squandered.

Expressing the hope that Nigeria would soon overcome its developmental challenges, Jakande said hope would be actualised faster if credible people emerged as leaders in the next dispensation.

He said, “This book comes at a very auspicious time in Nigeria’s history as we need leaders who can act. We need leaders who would not compromise the standards of good governance. God has blessed this nation the most in Africa, although we have not reached where we should be; with the right leaders, Nigeria would overcome its challenges.”


http://www.punchng.com/news/cancelling-metroline-a-major-mistake-jakande/

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eluquenson:
REVISITING SOME OF THE LATEEF JAKANDE'S GOVERNMENT ACHIEVEMENTS FROM OCTOBER 1979 TO DECEMBER 1983 (FOUR YEARS AND 3 MONTHS) IN LAGOS STATE

* His government built the current Lagos State Secretariat which houses all the state ministries as well as the popular round house hitherto occupied by all subsequent governors of the state.

* His government built the Lagos State House of Assembly complex.

* His government built the Lagos State Television

* His government built the Lagos Radio

* His government built Lagos State University

* His government established General Hospital in zones all over the state with assurance of free health care.

* His government established Teacher Training College and the College of Education.

* His government built low cost houses in Ijaiye, Dolphin, Oke-Afa, Ije, Abesan, Iponri, Ipaja, Abule Nla, Epe, Amuwo-Odofin, Anikantamo, Surulere, Iba, Ikorodu, Badagry, Isheri/Olowu, Orisigun etc.

* His government established the Water Management Board and Waste Disposal Board on the 18th of August, 1980.

* His government constructed the Adiyan Water Works to increase water supply in the state to 18.16 million litres per day.

* His government modernized and expanded the Iju Water Works which was first commissioned in 1915. This increased daily capacity from 159 million to 204 million litres per day.

* His government purchased and commissioned the giant car crusher equipment. The equipment was designed specifically to crush derelict vehicles in Lagos State. It had the capacity to crush 45 vehicles per day.

* His government constructed, rehabilitated and resurfaced Epe/Ijebu-Ode Road, Oba Akran Avenue, Toyin Street, Town Planning Way, Alimosho-Idimu-Egbe Road, Idimu-Iba-LASU Road, the new secretariat road and several others.

* His government constructed Victoria Island/Epe Road and thereby creating an ‘oil rig’ for Lagos State.

* His government established Asphalt Plant for the Department of Public Works.

* His government established Electricity Board for Rural Electrification with provision of street lights.

* His government modernized, expanded and commissioned Onikan Stadium in 1982.

* His government established a singular school system and ensured genuine free education in Lagos State and the beneficiaries of this policy are in different positions of eminence in the country and around the world.

* His government raised the primary schools in Lagos State to 812 with 533,001 pupils (against 605 primary schools with 434,545 pupils he met in 1979) and secondary schools to 223 with 167,629 students (against 105 schools with 107,835 students in 1979).

* His government constructed 11, 729 classrooms with the maximum of 40 children per class between March and August 1980, by 1983, he had constructed over 22,000 classrooms.

* In July 1983, two commercial passenger boats christened "Baba Kekere and Itafaji" to run the Mile 2 - Marina (CMS) route via the lagoons were inaugurated by his government to mark the official launch of the Lagos State ferry services.

* His government took over the ownership and financing of Lagos State Printing Corporation in July 1980

* His government established the first State Traffic Management Authority (Road Marshals).

* His government established small scale Industries Credit Scheme which preceded the EKO bank.

*His government established LASACO Insurance.

*His government expanded existing market and built new ones.

*His government established Traditional Medicine Board.

WHO SAYS 4 YEARS IN OFFICE IS NOT ENOUGH FOR MEANINGFUL ACHIEVEMENTS?

IT'S A FACT THAT 90% OF GOVERNORS IN NIGERIA SINCE 1999 WITH REVENUES AT THEIR DISPOSAL CANNOT BOAST OF A QUARTER OF THESE ACHIEVEMENTS EVEN WITHIN THEIR EIGHT YEARS IN OFFICE.

Tolu, the headquarters of good boys and girls. Interestingly 4 of my cousins went to this complex. Weeds, prostitution, creativity, football, bankers, doctors, engineers at its peak.