Reps committee seeks state of emergency on schools infrastructure
THE House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education has called for a declaration of a state of emergency on schools’ infrastructure in the country, saying the condition where children were being subjected to learn under was unacceptable.
The committee also called for digitalisation of all basic schools in the country, tasking authorities to fashion out policies that would ensure all headmasters and teachers were computer literate.
This came as stakeholders in education sector claimed authorities at different levels have not lived up to expectations in repositioning basic education.
Chairman of the committee, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere, speaking in Abuja, at an education summit organised by the Human Development Initiative, HDI, insisted that children were learning under deplorable infrastructure, a situation he noted, was contributing greatly to their poor performance.
Hon. Ihonvbere at the occasion with the theme:”Building Qualitative, Inclusive and Adaptive Education System: Meeting Modern Day Education Challenges in Nigeria”, also frowned at the lackadaisical attitudes of state governors in accessing their counterpart funds with the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC just as he accused others of diverting the funds to other areas outside education
