Learners in Ogun State have been charged to cultivate the habit of creating quality time for reading effectively before the commencement of any form of examination, to obtain better performances and come out with good grades.
Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Abayomi Arigbabu, gave the charge during the monitoring of the first day of the 2025/2026 Unified Promotion Examination at Ijebu-Ode, Remo and Yewa axis of the state.
Arigbabu stressed that the real mechanism for students to record excellence performance was through thorough reading and comprehending what was read.
The commissioner accompanied by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Lukmon Kiadese, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Mrs Oluwatosin Oloko and the Special Assistant to the Governor on Education, Daniel Idowu, disclosed that the government had put necessary machineries in all schools across the state to aid efficient teaching and learning for uttermost performances of learners.
He expressed satisfaction with the comportment of the school heads, teachers and learners during the examinations and assured parents that the government would continue to invest massively in developmental infrastructure to further enhance the standard of education.
“Before schools resume for the next session, people should look out for the massive construction and rehabilitation of classrooms and school buildings in all schools, up to tertiary institutions. Governor Dapo Abiodun has also promised to invest hugely in all the Five Special Needs Schools in the State for total transformation,” Arigbabu said.
Arigbabu also embarked on facility visit to the Government Technical College, Ajegunle, where he said the procurement and installation of world class equipment in all the technical colleges in the State, as well as repositioning initiative of the government in Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET) had earned the State its number one position in the TVET sector.
Speaking, the Principals of Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School, Ijebu-Ode, Mrs Ikhane Kayode and that of Yewa/Egbado College, Mr Masanwo Sunday, expressed their gratitude to Govenor Abiodun for all the inputs in the education sector, describing him as the education-loving governor of Ogun State.
Schools visited were Anglican Girls’ Grammar School, Ijebu-Ode, Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School (public and private), Ijebu-Ode, Isanbi High School, Ilisan, Orile-Igbore Grammar School, Ajura, Oluaso High School, Imasayi, Eyinni Comprehensive High School, Iboro, Yewa/Egbado College, Ilaro and Government Technical College, Ajegunle.
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