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Lagos restructures Ministry of Education, 4 other MDAs
(PHOTO: Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola, Lagos State Head Of Service (HOS))
The Lagos State Government has restructured and renamed the Ministry of Education and some of its Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), for improved performance and effective service delivery.
The Head of Service (HOS), Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola, said in a circular on Thursday in Lagos.
Muri-Okunola said those affected were the Ministry of Education; Office of the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education; Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs; Office of Civic Engagement; and Central Internal Audit Department.
He said that the erstwhile Ministry of Education would now be known as Ministry of Basic Education.
Muri-Okunola said that the Ministry of Basic Education would be responsible for policy formulation and evaluation relating to education matters; supervision of pre-primary and primary education in Lagos State except staff matters.
According to him, the Ministry of Basic Education will also be responsible for policy, supervision, and management of secondary schools in Lagos State except staff matters.
The HOS said the ministry would be responsible for the approval, regulation and monitoring of private, pre-primary, primary, post-primary, vocational and technical institutions; among other responsibilities.
He said the ‘Office of the Special Adviser on Education’ had now became a full-fledged Ministry, known as the ”Ministry of Tertiary Education”.
Muri-Okunola said the Ministry of Tertiary Education had the responsibility of the supervision, monitoring and investigation of tertiary education matters, among other responsibilities.
He said the ‘Ministry of Local Government and Community Affairs’ would revert to its former name prior to the Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration, as the ‘Ministry of Local Government, Chieftancy Affairs and Rural Development’ with a substantive ‘Office of Rural Development’.
The HOS added that ‘Political and Legislative Bureau’ had been reintroduced under the ‘Office of Civic Engagement”’to enhance the performance of the office.
Muri-Okunola said that while the functions of the Office of Civic Engagement remained, the Political and Legislative Bureau would handle political and legislative issues relating to the Executive and Legislative arms.
He said the PLB would ensure political engagements and inclusion; advise the governor on political and legislative matters; and create congenial atmosphere for harmonious relationship of the legislature and executive arms.
Muri-Okunola said the PLB would ensure political intelligence and mobilise support for State Government Executive Bills at the Public Hearing of the Lagos State House of Assembly, among other responsibilities.
He said that the Central Internal Audit Department would now be known as the Office of Internal Audit.
A Student Of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, Osun State, has died after being hit by a trailer driver on Monday, April 15.
The Accident was said to have occurred when the driver, who was reportedly driving against traffic, collided with the motorcycle conveying a student named Olanrewaju Olatona and another passenger along the Ikirun-Osogbo road area of the state.
Due to the severe impact, Olanrewaju Olatona, a National Diploma 2 student, suffered fatal injuries. He died at the scene.
Olatona, who was the Financial Secretary of the Department of Mass Communication, was preparing for the one-year Industrial Training programme.
The driver fled the scene after the accident and has not been apprehended.
Subsequently, Osun State Polytechnic students organised a procession in front of the school gate and blocked the expressway for several hours.
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped Joshua Rogers, the ChannelsTV reporter in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Politics Nigeria learnt that Rogers was picked up close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt and to an unknown destination by the gunmen around 9pm on Thursday, April 11.
The reporter was driving his official ChannelsTV branded car when the hoodlums accosted, pointed a gun at him and took him away in the same vehicle.
Rogers was said to be returning from his official assignment in Government House after a trip to Andoni for a government event when the incident happened.
Already, the gunmen were said to have contacted his wife and demanded a N30million ransom for bis release.
His cameraman confirmed the incident and appealed to his abductors to set him free unconditionally.
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