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Projects
By Ifeoma Aka
Enugu, Aug. 18, 2017 (NAN) The Chairman, Enugu State Universal Basic Education Board (ESUBEB), Chief Ikeje Asogwa, on Friday, said the board had decided to help any community that wished to renovate its primary schools.
Asogwa told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Friday that such a community would only need to contribute 20 per cent cost of the renovation as counterpart fund.
The board’s chairman said the initiative would run under the auspices of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in a bid to make communities take ownership of their projects.
“The communities in collaboration with the school management committees as the major stakeholders, will now construct and renovate the schools,” Asogwa said.
He explained that the State Government had built schools for migrant farmers; as education remained one of the major programmes in the four-point agenda of Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi administration.
According to Asogwa, the essence of building schools in farm settlements is to give the children, whose parents are staying in the farms the needed access to education.
“We have established migrant schools for farmers and nomadic Fulani herdsmen with teachers and they are doing well,” he said, adding that the migrant schools had been built in all farm settlements in the state. (NAN)
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