Kwara public school students to get free notebooks

Date: 2019-11-29

Pupils in Kwara State public schools in the 16 local government areas are to get free notebooks as part of the 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 on Wednesday, AbdulRazaq said the sum 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 free of charge.

A statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Mr Rafiu Ajakaye, said that the step will effectively end years of complaints of lack of writing materials by indigent pupils adding that this 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 N70 million to make sure that books get to the pupils 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

The NUT Chairman in Kwara State, Mr Toyin Salihu, 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.

Salihu appealed to the governor to prioritise promotion of teachers in the state, adding that teachers who were promoted between 2015 and 2017 were only given promotion letters without financial backing.

He also pleaded with the governor to pay outstanding arrears of SUBEB teachers adding that apart from four months' salary owed teachers in all basic schools, 1,302 teachers at the SUBEB were not paid their June 2016 salary after the staff verification exercise that cleared them.

The NUT chairman while lamenting that teachers in the state have not been treated fairly over the years by the previous administration said that "teachers have not been undergoing training for decades. We appreciate this administration for the commencement of training of teachers and pray that the exercise be sustained to enhance productivity."

He then pledged their support for the government to realise its policy objectives in the education sector.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwara State Branch Of The National Library     Aliyu Umar     General Hospital, Offa     Charcoal     Kunle Suleiman     LABTOP     Hijaab     Oloje     Temi Kolawole     Kale Bayero     GRA     Esinrogunjo     Salaudeen Oyewale     Marufat Oladosu     Belgore     Alagbado     Sheikh Ariyibi     Funmi Salau     Bibire Ajape     Maigidasanma     Abdullahi AbdulMajeed     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Jide Ashonibare     Balogun-Ojomu     Jide Oyinloye     Wahab Femi Agbaje     Kwara 2023     Council Of The Wise     Dan Masanin     Gbugbu International Market     Nigeria Customs Service     KWTV     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     NaAllah     Stephen Fasakin     Galadima     Okin Group     Bolaji Abdullahi     Zubair Folorunsho Erubu     Bilikisu Gambari     KWASSIP     Shade Omoniyi     Musibau Akanji     Senate     Oni Adebayo     Egbewole     Kale Ayo     Kwara Apc     Ilorin Emirate     Apaola     Abubakar B.M     Maryam Nurudeen     EFCC     Abdulrazaq Sanni     A.E. Afolabi     Bolakale Ayo     College Of Education     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Turaki Of Ilorin     Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Okala Baba     GGDSS Pakata     Buhari     Nigerian Army     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Kehinde Boyede     Ola Falade     Hamid Bobboyi     Apata Ajele Secondary School     EndSARS     Segun Abifarin     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Earlyon Technologies     Kwara Consultative Forum     Bareke     Suleiman Mora Omar    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Share/Tsaragi     UTME     Shaykh Luqman Jimoh     Muritala Olarewaju     Maryam Nurudeen     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Cassava Growers\' Association     Adamu Attah     Facemasks     Turaki Of Ilorin     Oko-Olowo     Abdul-Rasheed Na\'Allah     Sebastine Obasi     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Owu Fall     Aso-ofi     Elerinjare     Kunbi Titiloye     AbdulQowiy Olododo     Ola Falade     Bello Oyedepo     Babatunde Idiagbon     Amos Justus Sayo     Old Oyo     Olaosebikan     11th Galadima     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak     Busari Alabi Alausa     Jaigbade Alao     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Abdulsalam A. Yusuf     Awili Pedro     Raimi Iyanda     Student Learning Support Helpline     Marafan Shonga     Earlyon Technologies     Abdulrazaq Adebayo     Suleiman Ajadi     Kale Bayero     Barakat Community Secondary School     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Saad Belgore     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Bello John Olanrewaju     Esinrogunjo     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Elerin Of Adanla     Okin Malt     Bolaji Abdullahi     Ajibike Katibi     Umar Adelodun     Royal FM     Bola Olukoju     Kwara NIPR     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     CELF     Alikinla     Olatunji Ayeni     AbdulGafar Tosho     Yusuf Abubakar     JMK Construction Company Limited     Kassim Babamale     Laboratory-to-Product     Daud Adeshola     Alagbado     Yeketi     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Kaiama     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Aliyu Salihu     George Funsho Adebayo     Galadiman Ngeri