LASUBEB Conducts Capacity Building To Optimise EKOEXCEL’s Efficacy
The Lagos State Basic Education Board has conducted multifaceted training sessions for its Basic Education Quality Assurance (BEQA) officers to strengthen their functions in mentoring and monitoring of the state government’s primary schools.
This capacity building represents the kick- off of a new system of bi-weekly capacity buildings for the school management officers.
The trainees were taken through the datadriven technology-based model of instruction and school management being implemented in EKOEXCEL and equipped with technical expertise in driving improvements in the key performance indices (KPIs) of a strong school, which include teacher and pupil attendance, lesson completion, data entry into the EKOEXCEL server, pupil enrollment, and learning outcomes.
The eight-day training exercise was conducted between Monday, November 7 and Wednesday, November 16 and involved 180 officials drawn from each Local Government Education Authority (LGEA).
The training exercise, which took place in four local government areas across the state, to ensure no BEQA official was disenfranchised due to logistics covered areas like Epe, Ifako Ijaiye, Maryland and Ojo.
According to LASUBEB, the trainees are fully ready to commence their responsibilities as School Management Officers, providing mentoring and monitoring support to head teachers and teachers in the public primary schools, adding that it would not only empower and develop the BEQA field officers in their careers but also bring them up to speed with how knowledge is being impacted across other parts of the world by including technology in the basic education system.
Speaking at the closing of the training sessions, LASUBEB Permanent Board Member overseeing the EKOEXCEL programme, Hon. Bayo Adefuye charged the newly inducted officers to be passionate about their new responsibilities and duties.
Chief press secretary to Lagos State governor, Gboyega Akosile (right); member of the Independent Campaign Group for re-election of Governor Sanwo-Olu; AIG Hakeem Odumosu (retd, 3rd right); director general, Lagos APC Gubernatorial Campaign Council, Sen Ganiyu Solomon (5th right); followed by commissioner for Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso; his counterpart for Housing, Moruf Adinderu Fatai; APC Lagos publicity secretary, Seye Oladejo; commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Sam Egube and others, during the media activation of Lagos State APC Gubernatorial campaign flag-off at Radisson Blu Hotel, GRA, Ikeja, yesterday
Lagos State Safety Commission has reiterated its resolve to ensure that comprehensive safety standards are adopted across all the workplaces in Lagos.
The director general of the Commission, Mr. Lanre Mojola stated this at an Environmental and Safety Seminar organised in collaboration with the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria Apapa Branch, Lagos with the theme: 'Seamless Environmental Regulations in Lagos State'.
Mojola explained that the forum is an interesting engagement the manufacturers and government regulatory agencies are charting a course towards ensuring accident reduction at workplaces.
He maintained that safety is a concerted effort and everyone must imbibe the spirit of safety and take responsibility for ensuring that the environment is well protected from any form of hazards. "Manufacturers Association of Nigeria should do things better in the coming year, let us take safety as a collective responsibility and do away with complacency at where work place, learn new ways and involve in consistent training workshops that would assist to make our personnel better equipped.
"We need to take issues of safety very seriously because the statistics are glaring; 2.3 million accidents in a year, 6,300 a day and 260 in an hour.
"The whole point of this engagement session is to speak to ourselves and identify that Safety is everyone’s responsibility. Don't turn blind eyes, abate that nuisance because that nuisance could even cause an accident that could even lead to a fatality.
Going forward, he enjoined the association to continue to do things better.
"For 2023, the talk basically for them is that there are standards and guidelines and procedures that have been laid down. We would like them to ensure that they follow all these regulatory processes and obtain their safety clearance certificate and ensure their safety officers are registered appropriately and put in the right investment to train their staff."