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General News of Friday, 26 March 2021

Source: www.sunnewsonline.com

13 Lagos teachers to get cars

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No fewer than 13 public school teachers will be awarded cars, while 10 others will get consolation prizes for their outstanding performance, Lagos State Government has declared. 

The prize award ceremony, slated for Tuesday, March 30, according to the Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, would encourage the upcoming generation to take pride of choice in the teaching profession for a career.

The 13 teachers to be honoured were among 23 semi-finalists selected from over 3,000 applications who applied for the Education Merit Award selection process captured under the B.O.S. Education Transformation Plan 2020.

Adefisayo described the effort as an initiative of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu informed by the need to honour the sacrificial contributions of teachers in grooming characters in society.

The commissioner, who made the disclosure, yesterday, at a press conference, said while 13 of the 23 semi-finalists will be awarded cars, others will be honoured with other consolation prices.  

Adefisayo said the selection of the awardees followed a very stringent process and the successful applicants, who are public school teachers, were screened by seasoned educationists, without interference from the ministry of education under which the programme is placed.