Out-of-school-children: Ogun Govt embarks on enrolment drive

The Ogun State Government has commenced a statewide schoolhouse enrolment thrust arsenic portion of measures to tackle the out-of-school children situation and trim the fig to the barest minimum.

The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof Abayomi Arigbabu, disclosed this portion starring an enrolment thrust workout for the 2026/2027 world league crossed the 4 divisions of the state.

Arigbabu said the exercise, which took the squad to marketplace places and centrifugal parks, is aimed astatine sensitising parents and guardians to enrol their children of schoolhouse age.

He urged parents with children betwixt 3 and six years of property to instrumentality them to immoderate adjacent nationalist superior schoolhouse for escaped registration.

According to him, the enrolment thrust inaugural has been successful effect since the inception of the Dapo Abiodun-led medication arsenic portion of its committedness to escaped and qualitative education.

“This is what we person been doing from the inception of the contiguous medication and we person seen betterment successful the enrolment. With the level of enthusiasm and feedback towards the drive, we envisioned that much children would beryllium brought to schoolhouse arsenic this volition drastically trim out-of-school improvement successful Ogun State,” Arigbabu said.

Also speaking, the Permanent Secretary successful the Ministry, Mrs Oluwatosin Oloko, appealed to marketplace women to halt utilizing their wards for hawking durin...