LASUBEB steps up EKOEXCEL awareness campaign

The Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (LASUBEB) has stepped up EKOEXCEL public awareness campaign ahead of school resumption in January.

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu launched EKOEXCEL in 2019 to provide quality education to both the rich and the poor and upskill teachers leveraging technology.

So far, over 12,000 headteachers and teachers have been moved from analogue to digital teaching, using tablets and updated curriculum, with over 14,000 primary school teachers from 1,009 public primary schools captured under the scheme.

Commenting on the awareness campaign, LASUBEB’s Executive Chairman, Wahab Alawiye-King said it was in fulfilment of Governor Sanwo-Olu’s promise of quality education for all Lagos pupils as spelt out in his THEMES agenda.

He said, “Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu is very passionate about basic education and his dream is to reduce the number of out-of-school children to the minimum while deploying the latest technology for instruction in schools.

“We cannot afford to fail in the task he has entrusted into our care, hence our effort to make Lagosians know more about EKOEXCEL and its benefits.”

Alawiye-King added that Sanwo-Olu is very passionate about improving the quality of instruction in public schools and using education to drive the state’s transformation efforts given the importance of the knowledge economy.

Permanent Board Member of LASUBEB and oversight chair of the EKOEXCEL programme, Adebayo Adefuye stressed the need to convince parents and guardians that were yet to enroll their children in government schools to do so as they are assured of quality instruction.

“Our public schools in Lagos are now at par with their private counterparts, so there’s no need to keep children at home while looking for money to pay their fees in private schools.

“Public schools, particularly those in EKOEXCEL have e-learning devices, so parents, guardians, please enroll your children in our schools. You won’t regret it. Education is the future and the present administration recognises that, hence the massive investments in it,” Adefuye said.