Lagos State, Has Registered 6,083 Schools

About 6,083 private schools have been
captured in the ongoing Private School
registration in Lagos State.
However, some well established schools are
yet to be captured.
The state government had began a fresh
registration exercise for private schools
across the six education districts on July 28
to create a central database of Private
schools’ operators.
Statistics from the exercise showed that of
the schools captured in five of the six
educational districts, a substantial number of
the schools were still seeking government
approval.
Addressing journalists shortly after touring
schools in District 1, Agege, Permanent
Secretary of the Ministry, Mr. Adesina
Odeyemi, lamented the low turnout of schools
for the exercise before the deadline on
Wednesday, saying “more school would have
been captured if they had turned up earlier.”
“After inspection, I discovered that the
response had been very low since the
exercise started. But with one day left, I
discovered was that the turnout has started to
improving.”
Odeyemi disclosed that after the exercise
about 11, 000 schools are expected to be
capture in the exercise.
A breakdown of the schools captured so far in
the exercise showed that 1,587 private
schools were registered in District I; 1,089 in
District II; 676 in III; 431 in IV; 1038 in V; and
623 in District VI.
Odeyemi however warned that, “At the end of
this exercise, if any of the schools failed to
register that implies the school owner
deliberately wants to hide and does not want
the government to monitor the activities in his
school. And the government will have no
option than to shut the school because the
registration is free.”
He reiterated that the registration was for
planning purpose, saying, “We want to have
every detail of our pupils in order to monitor
them for development purpose. The future of
the state lies in the hands of these students.
And because of this, ensuring that they get
the best education is the responsibility of the
state government.
Earlier, the Director of Education Management
Information System in Education District II,
Mrs. Tayelolu Showemimo, had expressed
concerns that that the “Big Schools” were not
turning up to register.
She noted that the district targeted about
2,000 schools considering number of schools
springing up daily but only got 676.