Football Stadium, 18-Classroom Block, Studio: Features and Photos of New School Built by Nigerian Governor

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Lagos, Nigeria - Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday, December 14, commissioned a newly built school named Elemoro Community Junior Secondary School in Lagos. In a statement released via his official Facebook page, the Lagos state governor explained that the move was to ensure pupils from the community no longer have to walk long-distance before they have access to schools. 

He noted that his administration conceived and initiated the school project as an intervention to address a shortfall in access to education in the community. He said: 

Features of the new school 

The school, which Governor Sanwo-Olu described as a state-of-the-art edifice, is located at Ibeju Lekki local government area of Lagos state. 

It is built on 1.54 hectares of land and is designed to offer learning services, recreational activity and extracurricular leisures. The school has a college-size football pitch completed with 50mm-thick pile of grass and soft infills to ensure playability and fall absorption impact. Apart from 18-classroom block, the Elemoro Junior Secondary School also has 12 standard classrooms, six special rooms for Home Economics, Technology room, a studio for arts and music, science laboratory, library and ICT room. It also has teachers’ offices, sickbay, standard canteen block and over 30 toilet facilities.

Other recreational facilities built in the school include a six-lane sandwich athletics running track and a spacious seating arena. Governor Sanwo-Olu said the infrastructure installed in the premises offers the platform through which the pupils can fulfill their dreams and ambitions for the future. He also stated that his administration’s vision in education is to ensure every child in public school has unrestricted access to quality education.