FG okays N3bn for schools in North-east

Th e federal government has approved the sum of N3 billion to support rehabilitation of schools and training of teachers in the north east destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents. Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed this yesterday in an interactive session with newsmen.

According to him, one of the key areas that had suff ered so much as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency in the country is the education sector. Bobboyi said the insurgents had destroyed large number of basic infrastructure and educational facilities in the North-east which informed the federal government approval of N3 billion to support the rehabilitation of schools. He added that the intervention fund would be released through the UBEC which was approved by the Federal Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said the fund would also be used to establish vocational and skills acquisition centres in the aff ected states.

He also said one of the other major interventions was to support the women who left school suddenly in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgency. Bobboyi said government would also provide fund for training of teachers who had been displaced by the activities of the insurgents, adding that plans were underway to build model schools in all the senatorial districts of the country in the next two years which would be expanded to all the 774 local government areas in the next fi ve years. “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

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