By Agboola Bayo
Ibadan
Oyo state Commissioner for Education, Professor Solomon Olaniyonu, has said that the state government would convert six of the secondary schools in the state to model schools with N3. 7billion.
The commissioner, who dropped this hint while addressing journalists after the state executive council meeting, said already, Governor Abiola Ajimobi had approved the conversion of the six secondary schools to model schools to create a conducive environment for teaching and learning.
Olaniyonu said the schools would be spread across all the geo-political zones of the state with the renovation and conversion of the selected school to would N622 million each.
He listed the affected schools as Anglican Secondary School, Orita-mefa, Ibadan; Baptist High School, Saki; Ogbomoso High School, Ogbomoso; Oba Akinbiyi High School, Ibadan; Obaseeku High School, Eruwa and Abiodun Atiba Grammar School, Oyo.
He pointed out that each of the six model schools would be equipped with 24 classrooms, administrative blocks, units of science laboratories, Intro-tech workshops, computer rooms and libraries.
Speaking further, he said the state government had awarded contracts for the implantation of millennium development goals (MDGs), conditional grant scheme covering the procurement of medical equipment for hospitals in the state at the cost of N143 million.
Olaniyonu stressed that all the primary healthcare centres in the state would be renovated with the procurement of essential drugs for maternity and child health care delivery while three ambulances would also be procured for the upgraded general hospitals at the cost of N30 million.
