Lagos warns yet-to-be-approved private schools, orders immediate registration

Lagos State Government has warned yet-to-be-approved backstage schools operating crossed the authorities to regularise their status, directing them to instantly statesman the registration process with the Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA).

A connection issued by the Lagos State Government said the directive was issued connected Wednesday by the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr Jamiu Tolani Alli-Balogun, arsenic portion of the government’s efforts to guarantee that each schools beneath the tertiary level conscionable the required standards and supply safe, compliant and prime acquisition to learners.

Alli-Balogun said the authorities authorities was committed to sanitising the acquisition assemblage and would nary longer tolerate the proliferation of yet-to-be-approved schools operating extracurricular the state’s regulatory framework.

He disclosed that OEQA had organised 2 broad grooming programmes successful 2026 for yet-to-be-approved schools connected the support process.

According to him, the grooming was aimed astatine simplifying the requirements, providing applicable guidance to proprietors and making the process of obtaining support easier and much transparent.

“We person simplifi...