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Sanwo-Olu unveils digitalised container classrooms, rewards 13 teachers

June 30, 2022

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has unveiled a set of technology-driven modular learning spaces, introducing an innovation to the design of a modern classroom.

Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, commissioned a nine-classroom block built to replace decrepit concrete structures in Vetland Junior Grammar School, a government-owned model college in Agege Local Government Area of the state.

The interactive modular classrooms were improvised using standardised reusable freight compartments, known as container.

Each of the classroom compartment was adequately-insulated to give comfort and create a conducive ambience for hybrid learning for children in the public secondary school.

The project was completed with three laboratories and four staff rooms – all made from container.

There were also recreational facilities, including a five-aside football pitch, a multi-purpose-built court, which can be used for a variety of games, such as volleyball, long tennis, badminton, and basketball.

The classrooms and their ancillary facilities have their dedicated energy source, off grid as they were powered by solar panels, which guarantee constant power supply to enable teaching and learning.

The entire project was conceived and delivered by Special Committee on Rehabilitation of Public Schools (SCRPS) set up in 2019 by Governor Sanwo-Olu to implement interventions designed to improve access to basic education.

This just as Sanwo-Olu rewarded 13 outstanding teachers selected across the six education districts in Lagos.

The teachers were presented brand-new vehicles for their passion and deployment of modern techniques to teach pupils at an event held in the State House, Alausa, Lagos on Wednesday.

The recipients were part of the finalists nominated for the Year 2021 Teachers’ Merit Award by the Screening Committee led by the chairperson of Association of Private Educators in Nigeria, Mrs. Lai Koiki.

Unveiling the school project, the governor said the IT-enabled modular interactive classrooms would make a lasting impact in the state’s effort to make basic education accessible.

Aside from equipping the classrooms with interactive touch-screens, Sanwo-Olu said the pupils would be given electronic tablets to aid both in-class and virtual learning.

He said: “This is the future leaning in public basic education in Nigeria and Africa. The development of containerised modular classrooms is a welcome milestone on our journey towards ensuring that no child is left behind in Lagos.

“Our goal, as a Government, is to build learning spaces of the future, thereby bequeathing public schools that are driven by cutting-edge technology and that can compete favourably with the best schools anywhere in the world.”

The governor further congratulated all the 620 pupils who were beneficiaries of the state-of-the-art school, saying the children in public schools deserved the best quality of education to prepare them as part of a solution provider in the 21st century.

He equally enjoined the pupils to take full advantage of the opportunity to excel in their studies to justify the intervention.

Governor Sanwo-Olu urged administrators, teachers and pupils of the model college to take full ownership of the facilities provided and ensure the infrastructure is maintained.

On his part, the chairman of the school’s Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), Barr. Omoyele Akintayo, said the feat by the state government would champion a new course of transformation in the country.

Akintayo, therefore, hailed Sanwo-Olu for listening to the yearning of the parents to rebuild the school with structures that have a modern outlook.

The recipients of the brand-new vehicles were Adenike Ojo (Junior Secondary School Administrator), Folasade Oyedeji (Junior Secondary School teacher), Oluseyi Amoo (Junior Secondary School teacher), Olubukola Dosumu (Junior Secondary School teacher), Olusegun Muftau (primary school administrator), and Fauziyat Adegeye (primary school teacher).

Others were Michael Ayoola (primary school teacher), Omolayo Fadayomi (primary school teacher), Bolanle Alamu (Senior Secondary School administrator), Adeola Adefemi (Senior Secondary School teacher), Soji Megbowon (Senior Secondary School teacher), Yahya Adesokan (Senior Secondary School teacher), and Lukman Agbabiaka (Special Education Needs teacher).