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Foundation holds schools’ health, safety summit on Friday



A Non-Governmental Organisation, Advocacy against Negligence in Schools (AANIS) will on Friday, November 16, 2018 hold its 9th summit on health and safety in schools.

The Summit titled 2018 AANIS Schools’ Health and Safety with the theme “Safety in Schools: Whose Responsibility?” will hold at the NECA Event Centre, Ikeja CBD, Alausa.

The Executive Director of AANIS, Mrs. Idorenyin Toye-Arulogun explained that the summit is a platform for schools heads, proprietors, regulatory bodies, parents and other stakeholders to expand the conversation on critical issues affecting Children’s Health & Safety in school.

Mrs. Arulogun stressed that AANIS was set up primarily to raise awareness on children’s health as well as safety standards in Nigerian schools, adding that the organization is committed to championing the cause of safer environments, better health management systems and more sensitive care providers in schools for the benefit of our children and the nation’s future.

She noted that AANIS, which transmuted from MANIS (Movement Against Negligence In Schools), is a Child Health and Safety Advocacy Group set up in memory of the Late Morenike Toye - Arulogun, an eleven year old girl who passed on to glory on November 21, 2008 from an attack of malaria which degenerated to cerebral malaria, due to negligence and lack of duty of care while kept “In Loco Parentis” with one of the boarding schools in Nigeria.

Mrs. Arulogun disclosed that a school administrator and education consultant, Mrs. Anuoluwapo Adio-Moses, a Parent Coach and Experienced Counselor, Mr. Akinropo Akinola, an educationist, the Director General of Quality Assurance in the Lagos Ministry of Education and Mrs Ronke Shoyombo will serve as panelists at the summit.

She added that an Early Years’ Child Care Practitioner, Mrs. Itoro Ugorji and an Educationist, who is also an ex-officio member of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Mrs. Temitope Odutola will also be on the panel at the summit, adding that a Social Development Lawyer, Mr. Taiwo Akinlami will serve as panel coordinator cum moderator. ... See MoreSee Less

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It gives me great pleasure to commission the new ultra-modern Office Complex of the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project (IUFMP)

I am particularly elated by the timely completion of this project as it is indicative of the seriousness and importance we attach to the issue of flooding and other environmental challenges, as well as the need to curb its disastrous effects on our ever budding State.

I congratulate the Project Implementation Unit of the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project, the people of Oyo State and the various communities that will benefit from this project. It is on this note that I therefore declare the IUFMP Office Complex open for use. Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi commissioning of the Ibadan Urban Flood Management Program Site in Ibadan today

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