Education
RSUBEB To Dev Rural Schools With FG’s Fund
The Executive Chairman, Rivers State Universal Basic Education Board, (RSUBEB)Ven. Dr Fyneface Akah, has said that the substantial part of the Federal Government’s intervention fund would used to develop schools in rural areas which, according to him is in line with the focus of the state.
Akah who disclosed this to Aviation Correspondents at the Port Harcourt International Airport, Omagwa last Tuesday, said schools in the rural areas had been grossly neglected against their urban counterparts.
“70 per cent of the Federal Government Intervention fund is being applied back to schools in the rural communities, and 175 schools are benefiting from this. The fund is also used to for the supply of ICT and sickbay equipment as well as teachers for the rural schools.
“Monitoring is a key aspect for the UBE, and there must be critical monitoring, if quality work must be done by the contractors, we don’t want substandard work.
“We have set in place a monitoring team with a chairman apart from the supervisors who are on daily basis monitoring the projects and reporting to the chairman the level of progress made.
“As long as the projects last, the monitoring must be continuous, and dilapidation of classrooms are more pronounced in the rural areas, and this is where the intervention fund is being applied to,” the chairman said. He said that monitoring of projects is of great essence to the UBE board and that the UBEC master plan must be followed strictly, to ensure that contractors do not deviate from the master plan.
Corlins Walter
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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