Education
Community Wants Desks For School Pupils
The people of Ikem in Akwukabi Community in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State have made a passionate appeal to the state government to urgently come to the rescue of the community’s primary school and provide furniture particularly desks to pupils of the school.
This view was expressed by the village head who spoke to The Tide on the condition of the school during the school’s interactive forum over the weekend.
Chief Alloy Onyeche said the call had become imperative in order to improve the quality of education being given to the pupils in the school.
He said the pupils write on the floor, adding that such situation cannot make learning effective.
Onyeche said the school had a population of over one hundred pupils and added that the children were made to come with their chairs from their individual homes. The traditional ruler averred that as leaders of tomorrow, the children deserve a better learning environment.
He called on the state Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike to come to the rescue of the primary school and approve the provision of furniture and writing desks for the pupils, adding that the efforts of the community to that effect had not yielded fruitful results.
He opined that the situation had forced some teachers posted to the school to reject such postings and sought for redeployment, adding that the educational future of the pupils was bleak.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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