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A platform for school heads, proprietors and other stakeholders to expand the conversation on critical issues affecting children’s health and safety in school will open on Friday, November 18 at NECA Event Centre, Ikeja CBD, Alausa, Lagos.
It marks the 2016 Advocacy against Negligence in Schools (AANIS) summit for hears of schools and proprietors tagged “The Imperative of Safety in Educational Institutions”.
Executive Director of AANIS, Idorenyin Toye – Arulogun said that an educationist, the Director General of Quality Assurance in the Lagos Ministry of Education, Mrs Ronke Shoyombo, a Healthcare Industry Consultant, Dr Gbenga Omonije; a Child Protection Specialist, Mr Taiwo Akinlami, the Executive Director, Rely Supply Ltd, Mrs Fayo Williams and a Legal Practitioner, the Managing Partner, First Chronicles LP Mr Oluyinka Oyeniji would speak at the summit.
Mrs Toye-Arulogun said that AANIS, which transmuted from MANIS (Movement Against Negligence In Schools), is a Child Health and Safety Advocacy Group set up in memory of the Late Morenike Toye – Arulogun, an eleven year old girl who passed on to glory on November 21, 2008 from an attack of malaria which degenerated to cerebral malaria, due to negligence and lack of duty of care while kept “In Loco Parentis” with one of the boarding schools in Nigeria.
According to her, AANIS was set up primarily to raise awareness on children’s health as well safety standards in Nigerian schools, adding that the organization is committed to championing the cause for safer environments, better health management systems and more sensitive care providers in schools for the benefit of our children and the nation’s future.