The Oyo State Executive Council has approved the
rehabilitation of 100 public secondary schools across the 33 Local Government
Areas as well as the construction of four compartments VIP toilets.
The government also disclosed that the project will cost the
sum of N1,960,417,772.57, saying that a total of 10 contractors will handle the
projects in the one hundred schools across the state.
The State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism,
Mr. Toye Arulogun, who made the disclosure on Sunday in Ibadan, said that the
State Executive Council gave the approval during its meeting held last week.
Arulogun said that the upgrading of infrastructural
facilities in schools to facilitate the provision of the much required enabling
learning environment that will fast track the transformation and repositioning
of the education sector in Oyo State is non-negotiable, emphasising that the
Ajimobi led administration has prioritized education as one of its legacy
sectors.
The Commissioner explained that 34 schools will be renovated
in schools in LGAs in Ibadan zone, 30 schools from Oke Ogun Zone, 15 from
Ogbomoso zone, 12 from Oyo zone while the remaining nine schools are from
Ibarapa zone.
He stated that among the schools to be rehabilitated with
the construction of four compartments VIP toilets. are Emmanuel Grammar School,
Samonda, Anglican Grammar School, Kudeti, Otun Agbaakin Community Grammar
School, Akinyele, Fiditi Grammar School, Fiditi, Orayan Grammar School,
Progressive Grammar School Tede, Community High School, Alarere, Lagelu Grammar
School, Agugu, Jericho High School, Eleyele, Peoples Girls Grammar School,
Molete, Igboora High School, Igboora, Baptist High School, Eruwa, Ayete Grammar
School, Ayete and Araromi Awotan Community High School, Apete and Iba High
School, Saki.
Some of the other schools to be rehabilitated are
Anwar-Islam High School, Iseyin, Baptist Grammar School, Out, Ilupeju C.GS,
Iwerele, Onjo Community High School, Okeho, Community Grammar School, Lalupon,
Ogbomoso Girls Grammar School, Ogbomoso, Molete C.GS, Ogbomoso, Community High
School, Iwo-Aye, Muslim C.GS, Igbeti Pegba C.S 1 & II, Pegba, C.G.School,
Amuloko, Ifelodun G.S., Igboho, Olorunda CGS, Olorunda, Durbar G. S., Oyo,
Ladigbolu G/S. Oyo, Obalufon Grammar School, Okere High School, Saki and CHS,
Arolu among others.
Arulogun said that the State’s Bureau of Public Procurement
had issued the Certification for the renovation of the one hundred schools,
warning that contractors should abide by the project specification and duration.
The government spokesman stressed that the government will
not relent in its resolve to positively turn around the education sector,
pointing out that government’s efforts are already yielding fruitful results
with the recent 54.4% pass rate in WASSCE being the best in the last eighteen
years and students from the state being the first and second best in the 2017
WASSCE in Nigeria as well as the best 2017 WASSCE student in a public school
celebrated at the recent launch of the State’s Education Trust Fund with
scholarships.
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