Lagos targets 95 percent literacy level by 2019

Government through the Agency for Mass Education, at the weekend, announced plans to increase the state’s literacy level from 87 per cent to 95 per cent by the year 2019. 

Also, there are plans to commence training of 1000 facilitators for the state’s adult literacy programme christened Eko Nke Koo (Lagos is Learning.) Special Adviser to Governor Akinwunmi Ambode on Education, Mr. Obafela Bank-Olemoh, in a statement, said the training, which is the first of its series, is aimed at EQUIPPING facilitators with the necessary skills required to train adults, adding that the first batch of the training will commence from January 10 and run to January 11, 2017. The Eko Nke Koo (Lagos is Learning) project was launched in 2016 as part of the commitment of Governor Ambode’s administration to increase the state’s literacy level from 87 per cent to 95 per cent by the year 2019. According to Bank-Olemoh, the first batch of two hundred and fifty (250) new facilitators will be trained in January and another set of 250 in February, while the remaining 500 would be trained in March.