REPORTER: AMECHI ODO
Ebonyi State government is to establish Computer Labs in two hundred and forty Public Primary Schools to develop computer literacy among pupils in the thirteen Local Government Areas of the State.
Governor Francis Nwifuru announced this at the distribution of Teaching and Learning Material supplied to the state under 2024 Federal government and Universal Basic Education, UBEC Intervention Fund in Abakaliki.
The distributed items were two thousand four hundred and ninety nine set of computers, one thousand four hundred and ten pieces of chairs, mathematics and English text books, school sandals and rubber mats.
Governor Nwifuru said the state government was impressed with the policy direction of the Federal government aimed at repositioning primary schools as the bedrock for learning.
He attributed the challenges facing Nigerian graduates in the labour market to the failure of the nation’s educational curriculum and appealed to UBEC to make learning in Primary schools to be vocation based in addition to steady supply of learning materials.
The Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Aisha Garuba represented by the Director South East Zonal Office, Mr Isaac Chenwo said the material was to reinforce the collective belief that every Nigerian child deserves access to quality and inclusive education.
The Executive Chairman, Universal Basic Education Board in the State, Mrs Patience Ogodo said about two thousand teachers had been recruited while enrolment of school children had increased.
Radio Nigeria gathered that the material would be distributed immediately except computer sets which the Governor put on hold to enable the state government to set up a committee that would establish centres in benefitting schools.
