Nyemoni Grammer School
(NGS), Abonnema in Akuku-Toru Local Government Area, Rivers State will soon have two new hostels for male and female students.
Chairman of the Rivers State Post Primary Schools Board (PPSB), Chief David Briggs, who stated this recently during the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the two brand new hostels, said the buildings will be completed in four months.
According to the PPSB boss, the building will be constructed in accordance with best practices.
The buildings, he said will have alignments and as chairman of the PPSB, which is the supervisory body for the construction of the building, he will ensure ‘that there is sufficient space for activities for students when it is in use’.
Chief Briggs used the opportunity to thank the State Governor, Barrister Nyesom Wlike for extending the development of schools project to NG and making PPSB the supervisor.
Earlier  in his speech while carrying out the ground breaking ceremony, the State Commissioner for Education Professor Kaniye Ebeku expressed pleasure over being fortunate to be the one to carry out such ceremonies aimed at developing schools that have been abandoned for years.
According to the Commissioner, the construction of the two hostels is “in furtherance of His Excellency, Governor Nyesom Wike’s decision to return State Schools back to full boarding status.
He recalled that NG was one of the schools chosen for renovation and upgrading for the purpose of bringing back schools to boarding status of old, nothing that NG is one of the oldest and most prominent schools in the state, having been founded in the 1940s”
“Governor Wike has come to do what many Governors have not accepted to do and so this event is a great event” he said.