About 60% of private schools in Lagos not approved — Govt

Just about 40 per cent of over 17, 000 private primary and secondary schools in Lagos State are approved by the state government.

The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Ministry of Education, Mrs Ronke Soyombo, gave this revelation in her keynote address at the 2019 annual leadership summit of the League of Muslim School Proprietors (LEASMP), Lagos State chapter, held in Ikeja, last week.

The one-day event and 14th in, the series, with a theme: “Building a School Excellence – Wither the School Owners? had many stakeholders, including the executive director of Oxbridge College, Dr Femi Ogunsanya; the general manager of Lagos State Building Control Agency, Mr Nurudeen Shodeinde; chairman, National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Lagos State chapter, and the LEAMSP’s national president, Mr AbduWahid Obalakun, among others as speakers.