₦airaland Forum

10, 444 private schools operating illegally in Lagos state may soon lose their license.

Idiat Oluranti Adebule, deputy governor of Lagos state, disclosed this on Monday at the 3rd quarterly stakeholders’ forum of private schools owners held at the state secretariat, Alausa, Ikeja.

Adebule also said the state government would commence enumeration of all registered private schools operating from September 26, 2016.

“The enumeration exercise is aimed at providing the State government with accurate data and necessary information on private schools so as to set effective quality control mechanism in place and monitor compliance.

“Government is not comfortable with our discovery that over 15,000 private schools are operating in the state and only just 4,556 are approved and registered.

“Let me state it clearly, henceforth, Lagos state government will no longer allow private schools that are not duly registered by the Lagos state ministry of education to operate in the state, their operation becomes illegal henceforth in the state.

The deputy governor further said a total of 119 prospective school owners that applied for registration have been granted provisional approval having met the guide lines set by the state government,

Adebule warned that schools not registered or approved by the state ministry of education will not operate, noting that some schools failed to take the advantage the easy registration procedure put in place by thesState government.

Keneking:
But where is lalasticlala sef

- so unemployment would be on the increase
- wickedness of government is increasing daily
- who would absorb all those NCE /PGDE graduates
- what is the capacity of so called (high tuition) approved schools
- what is the fate of publishers?
- what becomes the fate of parents that have enrolled their wards into those schools?
- why did it the authorities long to notify the public of this development?
- how do we recognize approved schools? By look, faculty, school fees, school uniform or logo of APC flag and LASG colours?
- what is the quality of the output of the LASG approved schools in terms of terminal exams etc?




Useless decision

badaru1:
Do you operate illegally and still have license?

badaru1:
Do you operate illegally and still have license?

Bolustic:
To the guy on the 2nd floor above me, you just wanted to as usual, sway emotions for likes and shares, I am sure you read the adjective ILLEGAL but you intentionally winked at it.

For how long must we support illegality? I am sure LASG would have given them prior notice and they would have thought it's business as usual.

Mind you most of these schools have been operating for years without approvals and are chronic tax evaders.

A chunk of them don't have conducive environment for teaching and learning, was it not some days ago we read here that a pupil died because of the negligence of the school proprietress who making soap in the school environment?

Even if we don't support a party's ideologies and policies, we should not sacrifice constructive criticism on the altar of partisanship.