‘Kaduna renovates 457 schools under emergency intervention’

KADUNA State government says it has awarded contracts for the rehabilitation of 457 primary and secondary schools under the emergency intervention programme in the past one year.

Professor Andrew Nok, the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, disclosed this at the distribution of 250 chairs to the Government Girls Secondary School, Tudun Nupawa, in Kaduna recently.

Nok, who was represented by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Adamu Mansur, said 360schools had been renovated so far, while others were at various stages of completion.

He said the effort became necessary to improve learning environment for better output.

The commissioner said the state government was committed to improving quality of teaching and learning in publicschools to enable them to compete favourably with private schools.

According to him, over 90,000 chairs have been distributed to various schoolsin the state.

“When the current administration took over the governance of the state, ourschools were dilapidated; students were sitting on bare floors and windows, while laboratories were without equipment.

“To address the problem, the government embarked on renovation, reconstruction and equipping of publicschools with necessary facilities.

“Therefore, distribution of chairs will continue until all public schools are well equipped to provide quality teaching in ourschools,” Nok said.

He said the state government had awarded contracts for the supply of 256,182 units of chairs.

He said of the figures, 167,982 chairs would be supplied to primary schools,while the remaining 18,200 would be distributed to secondary schools.

Responding, the principal of the school, Hajiya Sakinatu Aliyu, commended the state government for the gesture, saying “with these chairs, many of our students will no longer be sitting on the ground.”

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