LAGOS EXPENDS N11BILLION ON SCHOOLS INFRASTRUCTURE
The Lagos Deputy Governor, Dr. Idiat Oluranti Adebule has stated that the present administration has expended more than N11Billion on the upgrade of school infrastructure and educational facilities in a bid to provide conducive teaching and learning environment in public primary and secondary schools in the State.
Adebule disclosed this at the Y2017 Ministerial Press Briefing of the Ministry of Education held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre, Alausa and explained that the sum of N2.4 billion was expended on the construction of 9 new school buildings, N3.7bn on the rehabilitation of 79 school buildings, while another 79 buildings had their damaged roofs replaced at the cost of N941m.
The Deputy Governor, who superintends the State Education Ministry, informed that the sum of N616m was spent on the construction of fences for sixteen (16) schools to enhance security of students and staff alike; procurement of furniture for 100 Principals, 1000 teachers and 40,000 students at a cost of N1.27 bn while installation of laboratory furniture and fittings and supply of Science Equipment for 30 senior secondary Schools was completed at the cost of N512m.
She said that the State Universal Basic Education Board also expended the sum of N1.5bn on projects in the primary education sector, stressing that 346 Junior and Senior Secondary Schools benefitted from the distribution of these furnitures while 707 double-bunk beds and 469 mattresses were supplied to public schools with boarding facilities at the cost of N48.4m.
Adebule revealed that a new world-class model of the block of classrooms recently introduced in our public secondary schools to improve teaching and learning will be completed this year. The foundation of the first 3 of the model schools was laid at Awori College, Ojo, Angus Memorial High School, Somolu and Lagos City College, Sabo-Yaba in February, 2017.
The Deputy Governor, however, appealed to parents to support the government as well as play their roles in moulding the children, saying that the State government had in fulfillment of its promise to lessen the burden of parents in the academic pursuit of their children and wards paid WAEC more than N500 million as examination and administrative fees for 44, 593 SSIII students who sat for the March/May 2017 West African School Certificate Examination in the State.