Kwara to rehabilitate 1,000 schools

A total of 1000 schools in Kwara State are to be rehabilitated and equipped with modern teaching facilities across the 16 local government areas of the state.

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq said his administration has activated plans to gradually fix the facilities, equip them, train and motivate teachers to guarantee quality basic education in the state.

“We have over 1000 schools which need to be rebuilt completely. It is not just about renovation because many of the classrooms have collapsed,” he said .

The governor said some did not even have floor and furniture. “So, we will gradually fix these schools and bring them back.”

He added that there were many lapses especially in the area of education. “That is why we intend to access UBEC fund which the state has not accessed since 2013. We want to access it to fix some of our schools. The infrastructure deficit is so huge that even the entire UBEC fund cannot fix all our schools.”