By Aideloje Ojo
Minna
Niger state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has said that his administration’s resolve to provide qualitative incentives for both teaching and learning in all its primary and secondary schools to boost the standard of education would not be comprised.
Bello stated this in a statement issued yesterday in Minna by his Chief Press Secretary, Jibrin Baba Ndace, adding that his administration would never compromise on its resolve to provide functional and standard education until the desired result was attained.
The governor said 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 to make teaching more attractive, the state government 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, re-agents, text-books in core subjects as well as solar-powered electricity plant to those schools.
“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 would be massively captured. We have also identified two Teacher Training Colleges to be resuscitated in our deliberate effort to bring back efficient and qualitative teaching in our schools.”
