The Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International on Sunday inaugurated its 100 per cent free school in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State.
The free school project of the Foundation in Ibeju-Lekki is built under the auspices of the Inner City Mission for Children.
It is the fourth in Lagos State and 10th in Nigeria.
The Chief Sponsor of the project, Pastor Deola Phillips, who spoke on behalf of co-sponsors at the inauguration, said that the 100 per cent free school project was to ensure that indigent children had access to proper education.
Phillips, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of Love World Incorporated, said that education remained a core focus area for the Chris Oyakhilome Foundation International.
She said that in Nigeria, the estimated number of out-of-school children remained unacceptably high, as reports had it that poverty was a major reason why millions of them had never seen the four walls of a school or had dropped out of school.