…..To renovate 1000 schools across the state.
The Ekiti State Government has procured learning aids and equipment
worth about N3 million to boost adult and non-formal education at the
grassroots.
This came to light during a courtesy visit of the Board of the Ekiti
State Agency for Adult and Non Formal Education to the Deputy
Governor, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi in his office.
Egbeyemi who explained that the Dr Kayode Fayemi administration would
not leave any stone unturned to reduce illiteracy noted that aged
citizens who were not privileged to receive western education now have
another chance of doing so through the Agency.
The Deputy Governor charged the agency to always liaise with the local
government chairmen and other stakeholders to identify those that are
interested in the scheme and mobilise them for the opportunity to be
educated.
He also disclosed that one thousand schools would be renovated across
the towns and villages in all the sixteen local government areas of
the state to provide an environment that is conducive to learning.
The Board Chairman, Chief Michael Atejioye, had earlier disclosed that
Ekiti was one of the ten states out of the thirty six in the
federation that benefited from the Federal Government vocational
materials.
Atejioye explained that the state government has approved the
involvement of political office holders and officials on consolidated
salaries in the sponsorship of non-formal education classes in their
localities.
He also encouraged students with deficiencies to enrol in remedial
colleges across the state saying the colleges were established to fill
in the gaps in the education system.