Lagos receives 10,000 transfer applications for public schools

The Lagos State Government has said it has received over 10,000 applications for transfer to public secondary schools in the state for the current academic session.

A statement by the Assistant Director, Public Affairs at the Lagos State Ministry of Education, Adesegun Ogundeji, noted that the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Adesina Odeyemi, told parents during a meeting that the applications were not granted because the schools “are yet to have all the requisite materials to facilitate teaching and learning.”

The parents, led by Mrs. Ramota Shamsideen, came to inquire why the transfer requests of their wards were not granted.

She lamented that they were excluded from enjoying the good facilities the government had provided in some schools they visited.

Odeyemi appealed to the parents and some pupils who came with them to bear with the government’s inability to absorb them this academic session. He explained that the government was expanding and renovating facilities in its schools to accommodate more pupils.

Until the expansion and renovations are completed, Odeyemi said the government would not be able to accommodate more students into any of its schools.

Mrs Shamsideen urged the government to give consideration to pupils seeking to transfer from private to public schools in the next academic session.