Nigerian Govt revokes contract of firm delaying smart school construction in Kebbi …C0NTINUE READING HERE >>>
The Federal Government has revoked the contract of the company handling the construction of the smart school infrastructure in Kebbi State.
The contract has been awarded to another contractor.
This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu, on Tuesday.
While taking a tour of the FCT Smart School in Karshi, together with the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, Sununu revealed that the construction of the smart school in Bayelsa State is also undergoing due process, with a view to revoke the contract.
“The two schools that are lagging behind; that of Kebbi State has been revoked and awarded to another contractor, and Bayelsa is also undergoing due process to revoke the contract and be rewarded so that no state will be left behind in the smart school application of technology in education,” he said.
The minister also decried the failure of some states whose smart schools have been completed and handed over, to supply the Federal Government with 75 teachers to be trained to run the schools.
He therefore called on other states to emulate the FCT Administration which is already providing roads and hostel accommodation to expand the scope of the smart school in its domain with a full complement of staff.
Sununu also urged traditional rulers and residents of Karshi, to provide adequate security for the facilities as they are the primary beneficiaries of their services before other Nigerians.
Earlier, the Minister of Education, Mamman, said Nigeria’s education system was currently directed towards technology-enhanced learning to help nurture the thinking and creativity of the students.
“This is the type of institution we aspire to have in the country that integrates personal learning and takes technology right from the beginning and makes learning interactive for toddlers; learners taking from the foundation and from there to build up to university level. It will help to nurture their thinking and creativity. So this is the direction our education is going,” he said.
The minister, who reiterated government’s plan to establish one smart school in each state of the federation, said currently, there are 26 of them while construction work on the remaining ones is ongoing.
He further stated that the smart schools will combine conventional and vocational aspects of education so that at completion the students will have skills that can help them in life.
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