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  • Chrisland: Students in terminal classes can resume – Lagos Govt

    Chrisland: Students in terminal classes can resume – Lagos Govt

    The Lagos State Ministry of Education has granted permission for students in terminal classes to access Chrisland High School, Opebi, Ikeja, for physical learning ahead of their examinations due to begin soon.

    The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, made this known in a statement on Monday, signed by Mr Ganiu Lawal, Assistant Director, Public Affairs of the Ministry.

    Recall that the Lagos State Ministry of Education, on Feb. 12, ordered the temporary closure of Chrisland School, Opebi-Ikeja, following the death of a student of the School, Whitney Adeniran, on Feb. 9.

    Adeniran died during the school’s annual inter-house sports at Agege Stadium, Lagos.

    The closure order, according to the ministry, affected only Chrisland High School, Ikeja, and not all the schools operated by the owners, pending the outcome of a full investigation into the unfortunate incident.

    Adefisayo, in an update on the matter on Monday, explained the reason for the new decision to grant permission to some students to access the school in Ikeja.

    “The temporary permission to allow the terminal classes comprising JSS3 and SS3 students access to the school is to enable them participate in their terminal examinations,” the commissioner is quoted as saying.

    She, however, hinted that the school would remain closed until all necessary judicial processes superintended over by the State’s Ministry of Justice and other ongoing administrative inquests within the purview of the Office of Education Quality Assurance and other agencies were  completed.

    The Commissioner said that the ministry, with support of the Lagos State Joint Task Force in charge of the implementation of the child protection policy and safeguarding, would continue to engage with Whitney Adeniran’s family on the case.

    According to her, the group is made up of Ministries, Departments, and Agencies, such as the Ministry of Youth and Social Development, Office of Education Quality Assurance and others.

    Adefisayo also disclosed in the statement that arrangements were ongoing for other categories of students to return to school.

    Recall that the Office of the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice had said that a Post Mortem report issued by the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, in respect of Whitney’s death, revealed the cause to be Asphyxia and electrocution.

    The state ministry of justice has indicated its intention to charge the school, some members of Staff and one of the Vendors with negligence, among others, over the incident, following legal advice from the Directorate of Public Prosecutions.

  • Chrisland School again! “Come clean to me about the death of my daughter”- Nigerian mum cries out (VIDEO)

    Chrisland School again! “Come clean to me about the death of my daughter”- Nigerian mum cries out (VIDEO)

    A Nigerian mum, Mrs Blessing Adeniran, has called on the management of Chrisland High School in Lagos State to come clean to her about the death of her 12-year-old daughter, Desola Whitney Adeniran.

    Desola was said to have slumped and died while attending the school’s Interhouse sports held at the Agege Stadium last Thursday, February 9.

    In a video posted online, the distraught mum said she was at the event to watch her daughter participate. She said she became worried when she did not see her daughter during the match past as well as other sporting events.

    Mrs. Adeniran said she decided to go where the students were all kept to check on her child. She said it was while she was there that she was told by a male student that a certain Whitney fainted and had been rushed to the hospital.

    According to her, one of the staff saw her and then told her that Whitney had been rushed to the hospital. On getting there, she met her daughter’s corpse. She said up till now, the school has not given in full detail, about what happened to her child.

    The distraught mum said the school claims her 12-year-old suffered a cardiac arrest and slumped. Mrs Adediran said her baby girl was not sick and never had any pre-existing heart condition and wonders why she would suffer a cardiac arrest.

    She is demanding the school come clean to her with regards to what really happened to her child so she can bury her child in peace.

    Chrisland School again! Parents seek inquest, justice for child's death during inter-house sports competition

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) had earlier reported that Michael Adeniran, the father of the deceased, noted that his daughter died on Thursday at the Agege Stadium, which the school used for its sporting activities.

    Adeniran claimed his daughter was hale and hearty when the school picked her up for the activities, saying the school had not said anything regarding the incident.

    He, therefore, sought the intervention of the Lagos State Government as well as security agencies to investigate the incident and ensure justice is served.

    “To the biggest shock of my life by 1 pm in the afternoon, I got a call from my wife that she was informed that our daughter slumped at the inter-house sport and she was rushed to the clinic”, he said.

    “My wife was at the venue even before the event started. She was never informed or called until they have conveyed our child out of the venue before they informed her. On arrival of my wife at the health center where they took my daughter. my daughter was lying dead with her lips black and her tongue black.

    Watch the video of Mrs. Adeniran recounting what happened

     

    “My wife called me urgently, I left my office to the place and found my 12-year-old daughter lying dead on the ground. I asked questions about what happened to my daughter and the school authority could not get me any information as to what happened to my child in their care.

    “I gave Chrisland school a healthy vibrant young girl what Chrisland returned to me is a dead child. My entire family is in deep sorrow but the school Authority claimed they know nothing about my daughter’s death and all they know is that my daughter slumped and died.

    “My question is what happened to my daughter at Agege stadium? As a father, I demand answers from Chrisland International High School. I am in deep pain and sorrow right now. If you are a father you will understand my pain. My daughter is highly loved by us. We cherished her existence and we can never allow an institution to gloss over the death of our daughter.

    “Since we started asking this question. The school has been asking us to back down from the autopsy and I know they know their way into the system. I am calling on the pathology department of @lasuth to please be honest with their result. Lagos State government, Nigerian Government, please intervene”, Adeniran concluded.

    Chrisland School again! Parents seek inquest, justice for child's death during inter-house sports competition
    Desola Whitney Adeniran

    As of the time of filing this report, no official statement had been released by either the school, the state government or security agencies.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that Chrisland International High School first came into the public limelight following an alleged rape of one of its female pupils during a trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last year.

    Videos later emerged on social media of the students engaging in intimate activities at their hotel in Dubai, where the school had taken them on a trip.

    The school was suspended by the Lagos State Government for a thorough investigation into the incident but was later reopened one week after.

  • LASG warns public from distributing Chrisland students immoral video or risk 14yrs jail term

    LASG warns public from distributing Chrisland students immoral video or risk 14yrs jail term

    Members of the public have been warned by the Lagos State Government to desist from distributing footage of students of Chrisland Schools engaging in an “immoral act” or risk 14-year jail term.

     

    Distributing footage of students of Chrisland Schools engaging in an “immoral act” or risk 14-year jail term.

     

    Pupils from the elite private school located in Victoria Garden City had embarked on a trip to Dubai to participate in the World School Games between March 10 and 13, 2022 when the incident happened.

     

    Following the incident, the school authorities suspended the student indefinitely, stating that she was “a major actor” in an “immoral act”.

     

    But the mother of the student claimed that her daughter was drugged and raped by some male students of the school.

     

    Following the controversy generated by the incident, the Lagos State Government shut down all branches of the school in the state.

     

    The state government, in a statement on Monday, warned citizens that sharing such footage amounts to child pornography and could attract up to a 14-year jail term.

     

    “This is to reassure members of the public of the State Government’s commitment to safety and child protection.

     

    “[This is] especially in ensuring that all child-centred institutions within the state, formulate and implement policies and systems that are compliant with the Executive Order (NO.EO/AAO8 of 2016), Lagos State Safeguarding and Child Protection Program.

     

    “We also use this medium to remind the general public of the implications pertaining to engaging in any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving a child committing an offence.

     

    “[They are] liable to a custodial sentence of fourteen (14) years. This includes producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing an image of child pornography.

     

    “In the meantime, all Chrisland schools within Lagos State are hereby closed, pending further investigations,” the statement read in part.”