The Ogun government says it has renovated 960 schools , provided 25,000 furniture across the state since the inception of Gov. Dapo Abiodun’s administration.
Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, the State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, disclosed this at a meeting with stakeholders in the education sector in Abeokuta on Friday.
Arigbabu reiterated that 25,000 tables and chairs were provided to cushion the effects of shortage of furniture in the schools.
He maintained that the immediate past administration left the educational sector in a sorry situation, saying that Gov. Abiodun’s administration had achieved a total overhaul of the sector.
The commissioner flanked by other major stakeholders in the state’s education sector, however, emphasised that the current administration had “invested heavily” on improving infrastructures in the last three years.
He said that the state government would upgrade all the 511 secondary schools across the state into model schools under the state’s flagship schools initiative.
According to him, 42 out of the schools have been upgraded into model schools while others were waiting for upgrading.
“We have upgraded and recategorise our schools, this is a new initiative in Ogun state which we call the Flagship school initiative.
“This initiative means that we are not starting model colleges from the scratch but we want to turn our colleges into model colleges,” he said.
Arigbabu said that the state government would make provision for new schools and build more classrooms in existing schools to accommodate more students.
He added that there had been 120 per cent increase in running cost for public primary and secondary schools in the state.
