Concerned about the negative academic gaps,that arises due to the COVID-19 pandemic, where pupils and students education is grossly impeded,the lawmaker representing Ifako Ijaiye constituency II at the Lagos Assembly, has bankrolled a radio class partnership with Jordan 105.5 FM to help school goers amongst his constituents.
The lawmaker Hon.Rasheed Makinde,notes that the radio session will run till when the scourge of the virus subsides and lockdown of schools relaxed.
According to him, the Coronavirus pandemic has been taking its’ toll mostly on the public school students.
He said, “private school owners already have measures put in place to ensure their students are well captured, and to continue their studies via the use of Information Communication Technology, ICT medium to beat time and cover maximally their curriculum.
“The less privilege students must also be given equal opportunity to thrive.
“Hence we now have, a radio class for students of Ifako-Ijaiye constituency 02, Ojokoro LCDA which I sponsor purposely to address the lapses.
“This is part of measures we put in place to ensure students of both public and privates schools are not abandoned in their educational pursuit, despite the global pandemic coronavirus.
In the words of the Programme Coordinator Comrade Kenneth Olatunde, the radio programme will run from Monday-Friday on a weekly basis and it shall last until the lockdown on schools is relaxed.
The lawmaker added that, “it is more imperative to think of better alternatives of engaging the children whose education has been truncated due to the ranging scourge of the pandemic.”