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Private Schools In Lagos Are Illegal, Lagos Govt
• LASG
Budget N500m For Disability Fund
Lagos State
Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and former governor of Cross River State, Donald
Duke have raised alarm over the danger of abandoning Lagos State t
o shoulder
the developmental challenges posed by incessant migration from all parts of the
country.
Warning that
the continued expansion of the 24 million population within a territorial land
mass of 923, 773 square kilometres is leading to huge infrastructural deficit
that federal allocations and internally generated revenue have not addressed,
both urged state governments to create productive economies to stem the drift
to Lagos.
Duke spoke
at the LEADERSHIP 2017 Annual Conference and Awards Ceremony, organized by
Leadership Newspapers, where Ambode, represented by the Commissioner for
Information and Strategy, Kehinde Bamigbetan received the Governor of the Year
Award. Noting that the N1.4trillion budget of the State for 2018 was too meager
to fund needed infrastructures, Duke said Lagos needs support. While declaring
the conference open, Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo advocated that sates must
operate as if they are countries.
Meanwhile,
the Lagos state government yesterday revealed that about 71 per cent of the
over 17,000 private schools in the state are illegal, as they have no approval
to operate. Deputy Governor, Idiat Adebule, said only 5105 private schools in
the state have approval. She added that the Ambode led government plans to
raise the number of Lagos residents that are literate to 95 per cent from 75
per cent. She disclosed that the state has not commenced the school-feeding
programme because of the high number of students in the state, which requires a
lot of planning.
Furthermore,
the state has disbursed a sum of N500m for people living with disabilities,
(PLD), who are willing to engage in small-scale trading, subsistence farming
and vocation in the state.
President of
the Federation Of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria (FOMWAN), Sariyu Ashiru
disclosed this at a Community Life Project Initiative organized by a
non-governmental organization, Reclaim Naija in Yaba Local Community
Development Area (LCDA) tagged, “How to get Government to know our needs and to
provide them effectively”. Ashiru revealed that the money was budgeted under
the Lagos State Office for Disabilities Affairs (LASODA) to cater for people
living with disabilities and is exclusive to individuals with the LASRA
identification card within Lagos.
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