The Lagos State Government has made the Lagos State Residents Registration Agency (LASRRA) registration number mandatory for the enrolment of learners in all public and private schools in the state from the 2026/2027 academic session.
In a statement made available to Frontliners on Friday by the Deputy Director, Public Affairs, Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), Adepeju Adeyemi, schools are required under the new directive to obtain and record the valid LASRRA registration number of every learner as part of the admission and enrolment process from Monday, September 14, 2026.
According to the statement, the directive, approved by the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Tolani Alli-Balogun, is being implemented through the OEQA as part of efforts to establish a comprehensive and verifiable database of learners across Lagos State.
The Commissioner said the initiative formed part of the government’s broader strategy to develop a reliable database of learners that would improve planning, monitoring and service delivery across the education sector.
The statement said capturing learners on the LASRRA database would improve record-keeping in schools, strengthen learner identification and verification, facilitate tracking, and provide government agencies with credible data for evidence-based decision-making.
Under the new arrangement, schools are required to include each learner’s LASRRA registration number in admission and school records, while sensitising parents and guardians about the requirement.
Schools are also expected to advise parents whose children or wards are yet to register with LASRRA to complete the process ahead of the new academic session.
The government, however, directed schools to ensure that learners’ personal information is handled confidentially and securely in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements.
The statement further quoted the Director-General, OEQA, Dr Sulaimon Ogunmuyiwa, as saying that his office, in collaboration with LASRRA and other relevant agencies, would develop modalities for generating and assigning unique PINs to learners.
Ogunmuyiwa said sensitisation, registration and verification support would also be provided to schools, parents, guardians and learners to facilitate compliance with the directive.
He further stated that compliance with the directive would form part of OEQA’s monitoring and quality-assurance activities across public and private schools in the state.
Ogunmuyiwa urged parents, guardians and school proprietors to ensure that their children, wards and learners were registered with LASRRA before the commencement of the 2026/2027 academic session, stressing that the requirement was mandatory.
