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.

CLAY POT     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Ishaq Salman     Mustapha Akanbi     Mutawalle     Gaa Olobi     Charles Ibitoye     Moses Afolayan     Gbajabiamila     Chief Of Staff     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Saidu Yaro Musa     Wahab Agbaje     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Agboola Babatunde     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Neuropsychiatric Hospital     Leke Ogungbe     Adewuyi Funmilayo     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Hussein Oloyede     Sai Kayi     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Moshood Kashimawo Abiola     Durosinlohun Atiku     Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Abdulrasaq Alaro     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     CACOVID Palliatives     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Frootify     KWASIEC     Omotoso     Senior Ibrahim Suleiman     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Gurei     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Abubakar Olusola Saraki     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     KWACOBPA     Ohoro Of Shao     Ilorin Airport     Okala Baba     Oke Sunna     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Abdulbaqi Jimoh     Balogun Fulani     Sa\'adu Salahu     Baruten     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Rex Olawoye     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Adeola Abraham     UITH     Ronke Adeyemi     Buari Edun     Edu     Adamu Atta     Isiaka Oniwa     SGBN     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Mujtabah Bature     Kwara Teaching Service Commission     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Awili Pedro     Bisi Kristien     NIRSAL     Ibrahim Abiodun     Tinubu     Biliaminu Aliu     Mohammed Abdulahi     Amos Justus Sayo     Ope Saraki     Ishola Moses Abiodun    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Read With Me     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Lanre Aremu     CUTI     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Twitter     Yusuf Abubakar     Oyeyemi Olasumbo Florence     Radio Kwara     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Arca Santa     Yakubu Danladi     Aisha Buhari     Rueben Parejo     Offa Metropolitan Club     Face Masks     Abatemi Usman     Dankaka     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Amosa     Lanre Badmus     Igosun     Bashir Adigun     Junior Secondary School Certificate Examinations     Apaokagi     Al-Adaby     Alfa Yahaya Road     Emir Of Lafiagi     Soffiyyallah Kamaldeen     Ibikunle Ogunleye     Kayode Yusuf     Yusuf Aiyedun     Ramat Oganija     David Oyedepo     S.O. Opowoye     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Yusuf Abdulraheem     Mukhtar Shagaya     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Ilorin West/Asa Federal Constituency     Abdullahi Samari     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Babatunde Ajeigbe     AbdulRazaq Abubakar Jiddah     KWASSIP     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Babata     Trade Lenda SME Fair     JMK Construction Company Limited     Ilorin.Info     Salihu Yahaya     Olatunji Bamgbola     Quranic Recitation Competition     Yakub Ali-Agan     Yetunde Balogun     NYSC     Kwasu     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Hijab     Ekiti     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Bolaji Nagode     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Ado Ibrahim     Christian Association Of Nigeria     Farouk Salim     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Ibrahim Mohammed     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Lola Olabayo