FG approves N3 billion for rehabilitation of schools in North East

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THE Federal Government has approved the sum of N3 billion to support rehabilitation of schools and training of teachers in the north eastern part of the country devastated by the Boko Haram insurgents.

Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, made this known on Monday at an interactive session with the media in Abuja.

Bobboyi, noted that one key area that had suffered as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency is the education sector.

He added that the insurgents had wrecked the infrastructure and educational facilities in the North-East and that the Federal Government approved the N3 billion to support the rehabilitation of schools that were directly affected.

He said the intervention fund to be released through UBEC, was approved by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, adding that the fund would also be used to establish vocational and skill acquisition centres in the affected states.

He said one other key of intervention was to support the women who left school abruptly in the wake of the insurgency.

He said the Federal Government’s intervention in addition to other supports from donor agencies, would tremendously help in the Northeast.

The Executive Secretary, who noted that Borno State has the highest number of Almajiris in the country, said this was one of the reasons why the insurgents found ready recruits, adding that government would also provide fund for training of teachers most of whom have been displaced by the activities of the insurgents.

Bobboyi, also disclosed plans by the Federal government to build Model Schools in all the Senatorial District of the country in the next two years and to be expanded to all the 774 local government areas in the Nigeria in the next five years.

He said: “UBEC has agreed to build one model school in each senatorial zones procurement process is on, we will build model schools that are information and technology compliant.

“We need to start working by international standard, our hope is that we will keep building the model schools and also mainstream them over a period of time,” he said.

He noted that the Model Schools, which are expected to serve as training centres in the areas located, saying UBEC was already working with the state governments to ensure sustainability of the project.