The Ondo State Government under the leadership of Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has warmly congratulated the enire members of the Management, Staff and Pupils of Mummy’s Place International School, Akure on the national honoure as Best Private School in Nigeria.
The State Government is particularly delighted that the Overall Winner- Best Private School of 2022 President’s Teachers and Schools Excellence Award (PTSEA) came to Ondo State through Mummy’s Place International School.
The landslide award came during the 2022 World Teachers Day held at Eagle’s Square, FCT- Abuja on 5th of October this year where the President and Commander-in-Chief of Armed Forces of Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari who was represented at occasion by the VicePresident, Prof. Yemi Osibanjo.
Based on this, the Ondo State Ministry of Education organized a grand reception inhonour the school on Thursday 20th of October as relevant stakholders graced the occasion.
The Proprietress of the School, Pastor Dr. (Mrs)
Damilola Oshin presented the Award and 18-Seater Bus gift that accompanied the award to the state government amidst loud ovations.
Receiving the school’s management team and pupils at the Ministry in Akure, the state Commissioner for Education and Technology, Pastor Femi Agagu congratulated Mummy’s Place International School on the achievement he described as historic and worthy of celebration saying that the school has done the state proud.
Pastor Agagu charged the school not to relent in its efforts and academic excellence, adding that schools and students from Ondo State have been doing very well in national educational competitions.
Presenting the Award, the Proprietress of Mummy’s Place School, Dr. (Mrs) Damilola Oshin, appreciated Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, the Commissioner as well as the
Ondo State government for being there for the school and
also, providing an enabling environment for the school to
thrive and achieve the success.
According her: “The government provides an enabling environment for education to thrive. It all seems as if education is one of the primary goals of the government of the state. They support us with workshops, seminars, teacher’s trainings as well as coming to us to ensure that we do what we
should do, they come all the time to monitor and that goes a long way in maintaining the standard.”
In her words: “We will keep forging on, we will keep breaking through the barriers and we won’t relent in our works.
“Education is everybody’s responsibility, we have children in school today who mostly are not even interested in learning because they have been distracted through all these online, tik tok celebrities.
“They want to be a celebrities all of a sudden and they are not ready to study, the celebrities also, in one
way or the other encourage this which is really distracting the students. So, we parents, teachers, schools, the government have a part to play, we all need to have our hands on the desk.
“We should raise the moral standard of the children. The
government should try as much as possible to keep the support on, we know we have dwindling resources and that’s
where the private schools comes in, rich people, philanthropists should come in and help to lift the standard of
education up by providing money, because money is essential in driving the education”.