Lagos State Polytechnic

Lagos State Polytechnic, popularly known as LASPOTECH is a government-owned tertiary institution located in Ikorodu, Lagos State.[1] The institution offers National Diploma and Higher National Diploma courses at undergraduate levels.[2][3]

Not to be confused with Lagos City Polytechnic.

Lagos State Polytechnic
Motto
Mission and Professionalism
TypePublic
Established1977 (1977)
RectorSamuel Oluyinka Sogunro
Academic staff
Above 808
Students50,000
Location
Ikorodu
,
Lagos State
,
Nigeria
CampusIkorodu, Isolo, Surulere
Colors          Red and Blue
AthleticsAthletics/Gymnastics and Football
Websitemylaspotech.edu.ng

History

The Lagos State College of Science and Technology (now known as Lagos State Polytechnic) was established with the promulgation of Lagos State Edict No. 1 of 1978 with retroactive effect from June 1, 1977.

The Institution commenced classes in January, 1978 at a temporary site (now the Isolo Campus) with five Departments namely, Accountancy and Finance, Management and Business Studies, Insurance, Secretarial Studies and Basic Studies.  The later offered GCE ‘A’ Level courses in the Arts and Sciences.

On August 1, 1978, the School of Agriculture in Ikorodu was merged with the Institution and it became the nucleus of the present–day permanent site at Ikorodu.

In 1988 and after 10years of existence, Lagos State Government changed the name of the Institution from Lagos State College of Science and technology, (LACOSTEC) to Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH).

In the late 1970s, the Lagos State Government acquired 400 hectares of land at Ikosi village adjacent to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, which was proposed for development as the permanent site of the Institution.

However, with the encroachment on the Ikosi land, its development into the permanent site no longer became visible and the State Government had to decide in favour of Ikorodu as the permanent site of the Institution in 1985.

The seat of the polytechnic Administration hitherto located at Isolo Campus since inception of Institution relocated to the permanent site at Ikorodu in May 2000.

The Polytechnic currently has staff strength of 808 with 56 accredited programmes across the various Schools.

The Polytechnic runs a portal (EDUPORTAL) on its website – www.mylaspotech.edu.ng. The portal is currently used to process admission and registration of full-time students and students of School of Part-Time Studies. Plans are on to make the portal more robust to enable checking of examination results, issuance of letters of completion and transcripts, e-learning, access to an e-library, dissemination of campus information and incredible development of Information and Communication Technology.

The Institution, which began lectures in 1978 with 287 pioneer students, currently has about 50,000 full-time and part-time students. The Polytechnic presently operates on three Campuses namely Isolo, Surulere and Ikorodu. The latter serves as the permanent site of the Institution, Ikosi Campus having extinct.

Notable alumni
gollark: Soon the AP shall be buried beneath a mass of random eggs.
gollark: I'm even going to AP-breed my random prize collection assuming I get to page 2.
gollark: *continues breeding random nonsense slowly*
gollark: Make sure to breed messy things.
gollark: Everyone breed random junk!

See also

References
  1. Orodare, Michael (31 December 2015). "Students rise against corruption". The Nation News. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  2. "LASPOTECH to inaugurate N5bn endowment fund". The Nation News. 9 March 2016. Retrieved 18 March 2016.
  3. Ugbodaga, Kazeem (22 September 2015). "Resolve Crises in Tertiary Institutions, Ambode Tells New Governing Councils". The News (Nigeria). Retrieved 18 March 2016.



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