page_title: Babatunde Fashola
section_title: Education reforms
hierarchical_section_title: Babatunde Fashola / Governor of Lagos state / Education reforms
caption_attribution_description: العربية: الحاكم باباتوندي راجي فشولا في المدرسة العليا بيرش فريمان؛ في الدولة لاغوس ، نيجيريا. English: Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola, during the commissioning of a new gate design for Birch Freeman High School; in Lagos State, Nigeria. Español: Gobernador Babatunde Raji Fashola en la escuela secundaria de Birch Freeman; en el Estado de Lagos, Nigeria. Français&#160;: Gouverneur Babatunde Raji Fashola à la école secondaire de deuxième du Birch Freeman; à l'État de Lagos, Nigéria. עברית: המושל באבאתונדי ראג'י פשולא בתיכון ברץ פרימן; ב מדינת לאגוס, ניגריה.
context_page_description: Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who is currently the Federal Minister of Works and Housing. He served two terms as Governor of Lagos State from May 29, 2007 to May 29, 2015. As a candidate of the Action Congress party, now known as the All Progressives Congress, Fashola succeeded Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on 14 April, 2007, and was sworn in on 29 May, 2007.
  Fashola was re-elected on 26 April, 2011. On November 11th 2015, he was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari to be the Minister of Power, Works and Housing; he was reappointed Minister of Works & Housing on the 21st of August 2019.
context_section_description: Babatunde Fashola vowed to rehabilitate the state's public schools, long being neglected with time. Among the schools being habilitated included the governor's alma mater, Birch Freeman High School, which is located at a busy metropolis of Surulere.
caption: Babatunde Fashola commissioning a university-style gate for Birch Freeman High School, in Surulere, on 4 February 2010.
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