Nigeria, April 14 -- A legal practitioner, Ayodele Ademiluyi, the lead partner at Newworth LLP, has instituted a Freedom of Information (FOI) Action against the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, at the Federal High Court in Lagos.

Mr Ademiluyi filed the action after an FOI request for the report of the Special Visitation Panel to Federal College of Education (Technical), Akoka, Lagos was not responded to within the stipulated seven days under the FOI law.

The FOI request was filed on 2 March and submitted at the minister's office on 6 March, according to documents seen by this newspaper.

The legal practitioner seeks to get the visitation panel report instituted following the crisis that engulfed the college in May 2024.

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