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Lagos announces deadline for registration into model colleges, upgraded JSS

The Lagos education ministry has declared May 19 as the deadline to register for the 2023 screening test into model colleges.

• May 18, 2023
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The Lagos education ministry has declared May 19 the deadline to register for the 2023 screening test into model colleges and upgraded junior secondary schools.

The Lagos examination board director, Orunsolu Adebayo, disclosed this on Wednesday.

Mr Adebayo urged all applicants yet to complete their registration to do so and other interested candidates to take note of the deadline.

“The Lagos State Ministry of Education, through the examinations board, wishes to update parents/guardians, headteachers and school owners to tidy up processes of their wards,” the exam board director explained.

He added, “The deadline for payment and registration for the year 2023 screening test into the state model colleges and upgraded junior secondary schools ends on Friday, 19th May, 2023.”

He reiterated the Lagos government policy on education, ‘Leave no Child Behind’.

(NAN)

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