Egunjobi Distributes 300 JAMB Forms To Indigent Students
Hundreds of indigent students in Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State desirous of enrolling for the forthcoming Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB examination, breathed sigh of relief as Executive Chairman of the Council, Alhaji Ganiyu Kola Egunjobi, came to their aids.
Egunjobi on Thursday shared out the forms to the students drawn across the seven wards of the local government at the secretariat even as he gave out uniforms, bags and exercise books to pupils of the twenty six public primary schools in the area.
Speaking at the occasion, the council boss said his administration was committed to overall development of youths of the area, particularly as it relates to education and scholarship of the youth population.
He charged parents and guardians to prioritize their wards’ education saying, “Education like they say is the bedrock of a nation and the best investment for a child is to educate him or her.
“Each time I come across DSTV advert, Everything Else Can Wait, to whip viewers into renewing their subscriptions, I dissolve into laughter. The only thing that one should not defer, is the sponsorship of one’s children’s education.
“I appeal to parents and guardians to prioritize their wards’ education as they say in Yoruba adage, “A child we failed to educate, would sell his inherited property.”
Recall that under Egunjobi’s watch, the local government constructed a block of six classrooms with modern toilet facilities in Salvation Army Primary School, Dopemu, rehabilitated a storey building block of twelve classrooms in Iloro Primary with Security House at State Primary School, Iloro, renovated block of six classrooms and reconstructed collapsed fence at Oduduwa Primary School.
Also, renovated toilets facility at State Primary School, Iloro, and provide desk and benches for primary school pupils at Dopemu Primary School, State Primary School and Oduduwa Primary School among others.
The benches, desks and bags distributed by the council to pupils of primary schools in the area were made by apprentice with its vocational training units while members of Agege chapter of the Lagos State Tailoring Association sew the school uniforms.
