Lagos State Government has said no
underage pupil would henceforth be eligible for
admission into any public secondary schools in the
state without completing primary six. Meantime, a standing committee to harmonise the
school calendar, curriculum and time- table for the
Basic Education Certificate Examination (Junior
Senior Secondary JSS111) of public and private
schools in the state would be set up soon. The state Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka
Oladunjoye, who disclosed, weekend during a
stakeholders’ session with school proprietors,
affirmed that the era of admitting underage
children into secondary schools in the state was
over. Oladunjoye explained that the need to align the
school calendar, curriculum and time- table of
public schools with that of private schools became
necessary in order to standardise the process. According to her: “Henceforth no pupil will be
eligible for admission into any secondary schools in
the state without completing primary six; the era of
admitting underage pupils into secondary schools
in the state has gone.” She also advised parents and guardians as a matter
of fact to converse in their native language with
their children and wards at home, stressing, “it is by
so doing that our mother-tongue will not only be
promoted but would be spoken effortlessly by the
children.” www.vanguardngr.com/2013/10/lagos-bars-age-students-public-schools/

Dat z a welcome development by his excellency Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola. More grease to ur elbow...Eko oni baje oo....o ba je ti..Kudos!