Niger gov vows to improve education standard

GOVERNOR Abubakar Sani of Niger State has restated his administration’s resolve to provide incentives to stimulate teaching and learning in all the primary and secondary schools in the state.

He declared in Minna, the state capital, that his administration would never compromise its resolve to provide functional and standard education.

According to a press statement made available Tribune Education by his Chief Press Secretary, Malam Jibrin Baba Ndace, the governor noted that by making teaching and learning conducive and more attractive, education would reclaim its rightful place as the driver of development in the state.

He disclosed that his administration recently approved N655.12 million for the provision of furniture, electronics and textbooks to the staff quarters of the nine schools currently undergoing total overhaul in its ‘Whole School Rehabilitation Project.

The governor also revealed that another N214.1 million had been released for the procurement of science equipment, reagents, textbooks in core subjects as well as solar-powered electricity plant to those schools.

According to him, the ‘Whole School Rehabilitation Project would simultaneously encapsulate the free school uniform for the girl-child, which has now been extended to cover up to senior secondary school level, as well as the free school feeding programme.

He said, “We are presently doing nine schools spread across the three geo-political zones. Our emphasis has been on boarding schools, but in the next phase, God willing, more technical and day secondary schools will be massively captured.”