Kwara public school students to get free notebooks
Students across Kwara State public schools are to get free notebooks as part of government’s efforts to deepen access to quality education and ease the burden on the parents, Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said.
Speaking with the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) late Wednesday, AbdulRazaq said the sums of N70m was released to the Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development to produce the notebooks and make them available to students in public schools for free.
The step effectively ends years of complaints of lack of writing materials by indigent students.It came a day after the education ministry conducted open bids for renovation of 31 public schools across Kwara State.
“I went to some schools where the students have no reading materials. That is why we set aside about N70million to make sure that books get to the students and they will soon start distributing them,” AbdulRazaq said.
Responding to appeals by the NUT for the governor to look into issues affecting them, AbdulRazaq promised to look holistically into the welfare of the civil servants including teachers who he said are key to the future of the children.
Toyin Salihu, the NUT Chairman in Kwara State, commended the Governor for his unique leadership of the state which he said has resulted in prompt and full payment of workers’ salary since he assumed office.
He then pledged their support for the government to realise its policy objectives in the education sector.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Yakubu Shaaba Kwara Consultative Forum Haleeman Salman Rasaq Jimoh Najim Yaasin General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin Yahaya Muhammad Age AbdulKareem Anilelerin SWAN Bilikis Oladimeji Ahmed Alhasssan Yusuf Lanre Badmas Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria Lanre Badmus UNILORIN Alumni Association Ojuekun Sarumi Kwara Teaching Service Commission Women Radio Christopher Ayeni Babs Iwarere Elewu Kayode Ogunlowo Mufti Of Ilorin Principal Private Secretary Omoniyi M. Ayinla Elerin Of Erin-Ile Issa Memunat Moyosore Adaramaja Kwara University Of Education Trader Moni Kazeem Oladepo Oloje Femi Agbaje Saka Abimbola Isau Abubakar Olusola Saraki David Oyerinola Adedunmoye Alikinla Daud Adeshola Al-Hikmah University Public Holiday Agor Market Busari Toyin Isiaka Benin Republic Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia Aliyu Muhammed Tunde Yusuf Kabir Shagaya Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola Ilorin South Constituency Halimah Perogi Oniwa Otuka Mary Arinde Abubakar B.M Bahago Wahab Isa Albert Ogunsola Baruten Ifelodun Ayinde Oyepitan All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools Vasolar-Kwara Company Ltd Hassan Oyeleke Yaru Monkey Pox Baboko Primary School Doyin Agbamu Ahmad Olanrewaju Belgore ITP Owo Isowo Asiwaju Bola Tinubu Ike Ekweremadu Balogun-Ojomu Alloy Chukwuemeka Ilorin Descendants Progressive Union Abdulkadir Jimoh

