Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has directed that N20billion be allocated in the 2025 supplementary budget to revamp school infrastructure across the state.
Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development in the state, Dr Lawal Olohungbebe disclosed this on Monday, in a statement signed by the ministry ‘s Press Secretary, Peter Amogbonjaye.
“His Excellency has instructed that we dedicate another N20bn to school infrastructural upgrades. The process has started already. The designs are being made, and we will get down to this as soon as the supplementary budget is approved,” Olohungbebe said.
He added that, “This is not a standalone effort. It is only another major intervention of the administration to scale up what we have been doing. Between 2019 and now, the administration has worked on more than 1,254 classrooms — apart from several other special interventions,” he added.
Olohungbebe said the administration was proud to have implemented SUBEB-UBEC school intervention projects from 2014 and now — a feat he said was unique to the Abdulrazaq administration.
The Commissioner said the new intervention, which will also include laboratory and sanitation facilities, targets schools in different parts of the state, complementing the ongoing interventions at SUBEB.
“Despite our huge interventions, we acknowledge that there are still gaps, and that is exactly why His Excellency is approving another special intervention to further close the gaps in school infrastructure,” he added.
