From Abdulfatah Babatunde
It was a glorious day for the staff and students of Ife Oluwa Grammar School (IOGS), Osogbo as the 1973/1974 sets of Old Students presented a solar-powered Borehole to their Alma Mata on Saturday in Osogbo, Osun State.
TheNewsZenith reports that the Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola, an old student, inaugurated the project.
Represented by his former Special Adviser on Political Affairs, Mr Akere Sunday, the minister advised the Osun State Government not to play politics with the education sector.
Oyetola lamented the sacking of over 1,500 teachers by Gov Ademola Adeleke’s administration. This, he said has surged the numbers of out-of-school children in Osun state.
The minister expressed worry over the surge in poor educational statistics of Osun and implored Gov. Ademola Adeleke, not to politicise the education sector of the state.
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Faleye recalled that IOGS, established by the late Chief Michael Fadeyi in 1964, would be 60 years old this year.
“The then Military Government took over the school in 1976-1978. This was a clog in the wheel of the academic progress of the then-Ifeoluwa Co-educational Grammar School.
“Another negative history was created in 2011-2012 when the state government reclassified our school to just a Junior/Middle school and our Senior Secondary Students were taken to neighbouring grammar schools to write their WAEC up till 2022.
“Thank God that, just last year, the school authority finally secured the re-accreditation for both WAEC and NECO Examinations.
“Indeed, it wasn’t that easy, but the Almighty Allah gave the school victory. It received the highest number of school subjects among her peers both here in Osogbo and its environs,” he narrated.
Faleke commended the kindness, generosity and philanthropic gestures of our distinguished Old Students of the school, Class 1973-74.
“The school will not forget its assistance in paying the NECO fee of seven needy students last year.
“Furthermore, the sinking of the solar-powered borehole which we commission today is another laudable project embarked upon by these wonderful men and women class of 1973/74. We shall ever be grateful.”
Like Oliver Twist, Faleke said the school looks forward to receiving more assistance from Old Students in solving critical challenges facing the school.
He listed some facilities needed to include computers for students to write data processing in WASSCE and NECO, equipping the Food and Nutrition Laboratory and helping to complete the school’s perimeter fence.
The school also need befitting furniture, a standard library and sporting materials among others.
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