School Safety: EWAN Rallies IGP Disu, Safe School Coordinator, Iliya, Others For seventh Summit

Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police, Tunji Disu, is billed to keynote the seventh annual summit of the Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria (EWAN) with the theme: “Schools Under Threat: From Reactive Responses to Sustainable Protection”.

The summit, which is scheduled to carry on Wednesday at The Providence Hotel, GRA, Lagos, at 10:00 am, will study sensible methods to guard learners, lecturers and college services, strengthen preparedness and be certain that training continues when insecurity disrupts faculty actions.

The Chairman of the Governing Board of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, will chair the summit, which is predicted to function the National Coordinator, Financing Safe Schools in Nigeria, Halima Iliya; Lagos State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Jamiu Alli-Balogun; the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Motunrayo Alaka; National President of the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Robert Okorie; and the National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Audu Titus.

Their contributions will join authorities coverage and financing with the every day realities of managing faculties, defending lecturers and learners, and holding establishments accountable for security commitments.

Discussions will cowl preventive measures, early warning methods, emergency response, neighborhood engagement and the assist training staff require earlier than, throughout and after safety incidents. The summit will even study the media’s function in exposing gaps in class safety, sustaining public consideration and reporting safety incidents responsibly.

The summit is open to policymakers, safety personnel, training professionals, researchers, growth practitioners and civil society representatives.

Explaining the selection of the theme, EWAN Chairman, Mojeed Alabi, mentioned faculty safety should lengthen past emergency responses following assaults.

“Each attack on a school affects more than the people caught in it. It leaves teachers afraid, parents uncertain and learners at risk of losing access to education. We chose this theme because protecting schools must be a continuous responsibility, with clear plans, adequate funding and people who know what to do when warning signs emerge,” Mr Alabi mentioned.

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According to him, the theme is especially necessary as threats to highschool security place stress on training communities to guard lives whereas sustaining instructing and studying.

“We cannot wait until an incident occurs before asking whether a school has an emergency plan, whether teachers are prepared or whether help can reach those at risk. These questions need answers before an emergency, and the answers must translate into practical protection,” he mentioned.

EWAN is a community {of professional} training correspondents from print, broadcast and digital media organisations throughout Nigeria. Its annual summit offers a platform for analyzing urgent training points and selling knowledgeable public debate.

Previous editions of the summit have addressed the integrity of public examinations, fundamental training, faculty security, analysis for nationwide growth, electrical energy provide within the training sector, and the rising emphasis on certificates over sensible abilities.

The occasion’s keynote audio system through the years have included Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National Examinations Council (NECO); Ambassador Michael Omolewa, former Permanent Delegate of Nigeria to UNESCO; Professor Chinwe Obaji, former Minister of Education; Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, Commandant-General of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC); Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos; and Professor Peter Okebukola, former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), amongst different distinguished personalities.

Other personalities, together with Dr Yusuf Tanko Sununu, former Minister of State for Education, and now Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, have graced the annual occasion.

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