Nigerian Government restates commitment to improve education standard in unity schools

The Chairperson of the Governing Board of the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC), Ambassador Nimota Nihinlola Akanbi, has reiterated the commitment of the Nigerian Government to provide the required Infrastructures and facilities needed to improve learning and teaching in the nation’s unity schools.

Ambassador Akanbi gave the assurance when she led members of the board on a visit to Federal Government Girls College, Omu-Aran, Kwara state, North Central Nigeria.

Akanbi told newsmen that she was in the college to assess the state of the newly renovated Biology and Agriculture Laboratories, a pilot project initiative of the Commission.

The Chairperson, who was accompanied on the visit by two members of the governing board, Hajia Habiba Sulyman and Mr. Olaoluwa Asubiojo, said the project, which would be replicated across the 112 unity schools nationwide, was part of the Federal Government’s efforts toward ensuring that teaching and learning was in tandem with best acceptable international practices and standards.

The Chairperson of the board, former Nigerian Ambassador to The Netherlands, expressed satisfaction with the job done saying the visit was to ensure that the project was executed in line with the agreed standard and procedures.

Contributing, the Executive Secretary of the Commission, Prof. Benjamin Abakpa, charged the school’s management to own the project through optimum usage and maintenance.

He also urged the students who are regarded as the target beneficiaries of the projects, to avail themselves the opportunities of the renovated laboratories to improve on their studies.

A Director in the Kwara State Ministry of Education, Mr. Amasa Abdulateef, who represented the State Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, said the projects would assist in no small measure to improve the standard of learning among the students.

He expressed the ministry’s readiness to work with school’s authority in the management of the laboratories to achieve the desired aims and objectives.

In her remarks, the Principal of the college, Mrs. Kyakse Lami Samuel expressed the students, staffs and management’s appreciation to the Federal Government for the recognition accorded the school through the projects.

She appreciated the Commission for facilitating the laudable initiative of the Federal Government to be piloted in the school.

The Principal assured the commission that the project will be given the desired priority and maintenance in order to achieve the set objectives.

She however, appealed to Ambassador Akanbi to use her good office to facilitate more of these laudable projects for the benefit of the students.

Federal Government Girls College, Omu Aran, was conceived out of the desire to bring together young girls from diverse cultural, tribal and linguistic backgrounds from different parts of Nigeria to learn under the same environment with a view to fostering national unity among them at the impressionable stages of their lives.