By Dahiru Suleiman
Jigawa state government has expended N1.4b in the last four months to renovate schools and equip laboratories of three thousand primary and post primary schools.
Speaking to newsmen in Dutse on Thursday, the state Commissioner of Education Science and Technology, Dr. Lawal Yunusa Danzomo said part of the fund was expended on construction of two- three block of classrooms, equipped with learning materials, as well renovation of some dillapidated schools.
“Our focus is to offer quality education for quality service delivery, under Education Agenda Initiatives of the present administration. This also covers the provision of teaching aids, quality teacher and learning materials”.
According to Danzomo “we have succeeded in floating effective schools with 70 per cent teaching and learning apparatus. The essence was to allow access to education, as we de- board our boarding schools to allow for more intakes of successful students”.
He stated that with these achievements, “we are able to provide over eighty five percent needed infrastructure in our schools”.
“Others include building and provision of laboratories equipments for our science secondary schools” he said.
On nomadic schools, Danzomo said “381 nomadic schools have attained 70 per cent patronage operating under a conducive atmosphere, plans have reached advance stage towards the establishment of Junior and senior nomadic secondary Schools”.
