Senator Solomon Adeola, popularly known as YAYI, has announced a 12-classroom block at Iju Ebiye Secondary School and a 60-computer ICT centre at Lisabi Grammar School in Ogun State.
Separate statements on the Yayi Connect website, dated 21 and 22 October, describe the construction of the classroom block in Iju Town and the construction and equipping of the computer centre in Abeokuta. Adeola represents Ogun West in the Senate.
The Iju project is a one-storey building with 12 furnished classrooms and offices for teaching and non-teaching staff. The school is in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area. The statement describes the intervention as complementing the Ogun State Government’s work on educational infrastructure.
At Lisabi Grammar School, the equipment listed includes 60 desktop computers and two multifunctional printers. A 30kVA generator, a 15kVA solar inverter system and air-conditioning units are also included in the announcement.
The two facilities address different parts of school provision. The Iju announcement concerns teaching rooms and staff offices, while the Lisabi statement centres on computer equipment and supporting power infrastructure. The computers, printers and power systems are listed as part of one intervention at Lisabi.
Yayi Connect said the computer centre was intended to give pupils practical digital skills and wider access to technology. It described preparation for opportunities in the digital economy as an objective of the project, rather than reporting measured learning results.
Commenting on the projects on Thursday, 22 October, Adeola described education as a priority. “Education remains a critical investment in the future of our people and the development of Ogun State,” he said, according to TheStar.
He said the classroom block would improve learning facilities at Iju Ebiye, while the Lisabi centre would strengthen pupils’ exposure to digital education. The announcements did not provide enrolment figures for the beneficiaries or specify how many pupils would use the computer centre during each school session.
Neither statement identified the projects’ costs, the source of funds, contractors or implementing agencies. They also did not set out handover dates, maintenance arrangements or a timetable for lessons in the new facilities. The published descriptions therefore establish what Adeola’s movement says has been provided, without showing when classroom teaching or computer instruction began.
Lisabi Grammar School has previously received a separate educational investment from Stanbic IBTC. In October 2024, the bank announced renovations under its Adopt-A-School initiative, including computers, improvements to science laboratories and a vocational centre.
That earlier programme included rooms for ICT, technical drawing, art, cooking and sewing. Stanbic IBTC’s then chief executive, Demola Sogunle, described the adoption as a continuing commitment to refurbishment and maintenance, rather than a single renovation.
The school was founded in 1943. Reporting on the 2024 work put its population at more than 3,400 pupils and 100 staff members at that time. Those historical figures are not a current enrolment count for the newly announced centre.
The latest Lisabi announcement does not explain the new facility’s relationship to the ICT provision included in the bank’s earlier refurbishment. It lists the 60 computers and supporting equipment but gives no details of changes to the existing computer rooms.
Archive photograph, 24 October 2025: Solomon Adeola with Sesi Whingan. Yemi festus / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0. This photograph does not show either school project. Resized for display. Image source; licence.
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