Anambra State Governor Professor Chukwuma Soludo has commissioned the distribution of multimillion naira instructional materials and equipment to primary and junior secondary schools in Anambra State.
The materials include one thousand one hundred and four units of magnetic boards; one thousand one hundred and four units of ECCD toys; twelve thousand units of plastic chairs and tables for junior secondary schools, nine hundred and sixty-six units of iron framed chairs and tables for teachers and six shuttle buses for Quality Assurance monitoring and supervision.
The flag-off which took place at the headquarters of Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board, ASUBEB, in Awka attracted head teachers, principals, teachers, students and basic education stakeholders.
Governor Soludo represented by the Head of Service, Barrister Theodora Igwegbe said Anambra State has a governor who has promised an end to schools without teachers with the employment of five thousand teachers and ongoing recruitment of three thousand more, adding that there is now an improvement in every sphere of education in the state.
Governor Soludo pointed out that his investment in education for the benefits of Anambra school children is not what anyone can sweep under the carpet and recalled the very recent distribution of laptop computers to head teachers and Principals with the aim of digitizing education in Anambra and urged every teacher to improve on their digital skills so that they will not be left behind.
In her welcome address, the Chairman of ASUBEB, Dr Vera Nwadinobi revealed that Governor Soludo paid over three-billion-naira counterpart funding for UBEC matching grant to acquire the instructional materials and equipment, noting that the counterpart funding helps in renovation of schools, construction of new school structures, provision of chairs, tables and other teaching and learning materials to accommodate the surge in students’ population occasioned by the free education policy.
She mentioned some of the Governor’s interventions in Anambra schools to include improved teaching and learning environment, additional fifty thousand naira to the running cost of schools, one hundred thousand naira running cost to all education officers across the twenty-one local government areas, prompt payment of teachers’ salaries and gratuities, two million naira grant to each mission school in the state among others.
In their separate remarks, the headteacher of Migrant Farmers School, Nnobi, Mrs. Ngozi Onochie, Principal, Nigeria Science and Technical College, Nnewi, Mrs. Eucharia Ikegwuonwu and a teacher from Woliwo Primary School one, Onitsha, Mrs. Charity Nweke expressed deep gratitude to the governor for providing them such quality materials, noting that it will help them a lot in teaching and learning exercise and called other governors to emulate Governor Soludo.
Some of the pupils, Chisom Nwammadu from Udoka Primary School, Awka and Chinedu Nwuzo from Model Primary School, Isuofia, thanked the governor for touching their lives positively and prayed God to bless him.
Official commissioning of the materials, symbolic distribution to some schools, welcome song and cultural dance featured during the day.
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