The Ekiti State Authorities has permitted the disbursement of N1,179,235,500.00 as operating grants for major and secondary faculties, in addition to Technical Schools, and the three Authorities Particular Colleges within the state for the 2024/2025 tutorial session.
The State Commissioner for Info, Rt. Hon. Taiwo Olatunbosun disclosed this throughout a media briefing in Ado-Ekiti, the place he gave a complete breakdown of the state’s current training spending below the present administration.
“The Ekiti State Authorities is about to expend a complete of N1,179,235,500.00 as operating grants for Main and Secondary Colleges, Technical Schools, and the three Authorities Particular Colleges within the State for the 2024/2025 session alone,” he said.
Breakdown of operating grants
In response to the State Commissioner, the overall allocation for the upcoming session is distributed as follows:
- Public Secondary Colleges: N602,356,500
- Main Colleges: N381,258,000
- Technical Schools: N10,737,000
- Authorities Particular Colleges: N15,407,000 month-to-month for feeding and upkeep
Renovations and constructions
Olatunbosun highlighted a few of the Authorities’s interventions in public secondary faculties within the State to incorporate:
- Renovation of 1,135 school rooms
- Development of 83 school rooms
- Development and renovation of 696 bathrooms
- Drilling and rehabilitation of 40 boreholes
- Renovation of 18 libraries
- 105 geared up science laboratories
- 67 multipurpose halls
- Fencing of 46 college premises
- Procurement of two,978 models of college furnishings and educational supplies
Extra funding
The Commissioner additionally disclosed that the state has invested N11,306,760,012.54 within the renovation and development of infrastructure in 203 public secondary faculties by way of the World Bank-supported Adolescent Women’ Initiative for Studying and Empowerment (AGILE).
He additionally revealed that the state authorities paid N6,154,879,897.36 in counterpart funding to the Common Primary Schooling Fee (UBEC) to assist tasks in 927 public major faculties throughout the state for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024.
Moreover:
- N16,388,047.77 was spent on steady evaluation paperwork for public secondary faculties.
- N174,032,505.00 went towards educational supplies for major faculties.
Extra insights
In response to the state authorities, the three government-owned particular faculties within the state at the moment are supported with month-to-month operating grants of over N15 million, used for feeding and upkeep.
The state has additionally employed skilled therapists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech-language pathologists to ship specialised assist companies to youngsters with disabilities.
The Commissioner issued a stern warning to public college principals and head-teachers, cautioning in opposition to corruption, mismanagement, and misrepresentation of college situations.
He famous that it will be incorrect for anyone to misrepresent points below any guise to probably appeal to donations from people, teams of individuals, philanthropists, or associations with out consideration of the unjustifiable impact on the picture of the Authorities.
Olatunbosun referred to as on residents, neighborhood leaders, and civil society teams to affix fingers in safeguarding public infrastructure and making certain sustainability.
He burdened that authorities funding alone just isn’t sufficient, and that communities should assist efforts to protect instructional services.
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