31 July 2007
Lagos — The Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and UN-ESCO are to equip 50 schools in Delta, Gov. Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said. Uduaghan said at the opening of a National Joint Consultative Committee on Education (JCCE) meeting today in Asaba that the state would also equip 150 schools.
He said that the essence of the projects was to boost science education.
Uduaghan said the state university and one of its three polytechnics were among the schools to be equipped.
He said that the state government would spend N450 million on the 150 schools.
Represented by his deputy, Prof. Amos Utuama, he said the state still faced challenges in infrastructural development in the education sector.
He said that "the state has increased the quality and number of teachers in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions".
Uduaghan said that government was also tackling the issue of student population in the classrooms and said the target was to reduce the population of each classroom to 35 students.
Uduaghan assured participants that the government attached importance to education. "The time for theory is over.
This is the time to seek and implement practical solutions to all the problems facing education. The best time to start is today," he said.
Earlier, JCCE Chairman, Dr Gladys Makoju, scored the three tiers of government low in the implementation of policies in the education sector. She said the National Council on Education (NCE) with inputs from JCCC, had continued to formulate policies that would boost educational development.
Makoju said that the meeting would address the issue of sexual harassment and other vices plaguing educational institutions in Nigeria.
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