Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, presented cheques worth N256 million to 128 public secondary schools in the state, as reward for academic excellence.
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This came as the governor said his administration recently, employed 1200 new teachers to boost teaching and learning in the state public secondary schools.
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Fashola handed the cheques to the schools at the third edition of the Lagos Eko Project Awards, a World Bank assisted project, held in Ikeja.
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The event was attended by former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Chief Bola Ajibola, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, among other eminent personalities.
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The governor noted that each of the 128 schools selected from the 661 junior and senior secondary schools in the state will receive N2 million, explaining that the gesture was to encourage the schools and urged them to ultilise the money to further develop their schools.