678 toilets, 531 classroom built, 5,223 trained on literacy, numeracy teaching skills — SUBEB

Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has trained five thousand, two hundred and twenty three participants on literacy and numeracy teaching skills

Chairperson of Lagos SUBEB, Gbolahan Daodu, said the participants, comprising the state school improvement team, school improvement officers, education secretaries, heads of sections, head teachers and class teachers, received the training at a SUBEB organized four-day leadership training it organized.

Daodu, who gave a breakdown of activities of the Board at the 2015 ministerial press briefing in commemoration of the 8th years in office of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, said 2,552 primary one to three teachers were trained on improving literacy teaching skills in primary schools; 50 special education teachers were trained on performance improvement while 61 caregivers and Early Childhood Care and Development Education (ECCDE) desk officers at the LGEAs participated in a workshop on active model learning approach in pre-schools.

She revealed that the Board also improved infrastructure in several schools.

"In the area of infrastructural development, 531 classrooms and 678 toilet cubicles were completed and handed over for use while wall fences, gates and gate houses were completed and handed over in six schools, while over 400 classrooms with other essential accessories are at various stages of completion from the year 2009/10 TETFUND and year 2013 UBEC/SUBEB intervention fund projects awarded in November 2014," she said.

Fashola’s tenure comes to an end on Friday May 29 as he hands over to Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos state governor-elect.