Folashade Adefisayo | |
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Lagos State Ministry of Education | |
Assumed office 2019 | |
Governor | Babajide Sanwo-Olu |
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Education | |
Folashade Adefisayo is a Nigerian academic and a teacher, [1] and she is the current commissioner of Lagos State Ministry of Education. [2] [3] [4]
She attended the University of Ibadan where she received a bachelor's degree in Zoology. [1] Later,she moved to Lagos State University where she obtained Master's Degree in Business Administration and to the University of Nottingham,where she obtained another master's degree in education. [1]
Folashade set a programme to improve students in Computer Base Test (CBT),after a long lockdown of COVID-19 in Lagos State,the programme is set to improve about 1.5 million students across Lagos State and Nigeria. [5] She also ordered promotion of students of Lagos to next class by considering their continue assessment (CA Test). [6] Prior to becoming a commissioner in Lagos State,Folashade worked in the Banking and education sector. [7] Folashade has a forty years job experience altogether.
Folashade was born and raised in Lagos and Ibadan,Nigeria;she is the eldest daughter among five members of her family,and she likes reading and travelling. [8]
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Lagos State University of Education
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