The principal of Budum Junior Secondary School, Yagana Kachalla, Maiduguri, has appealed to the Borno State government to provide more classrooms and desks in the school to enable students learn in a comfortable evironment.
The headmaster of Budum Primary School equally appealed to the state government to provide an ICT centre and dispensary in the school with about 5,300 pupils.
Due to the congestion resulting from the inadequate classrooms at the junior secondary section, some students it on the floor while others overcrowd desks during classes.
The school heads made the appeal yesterday when Vitafoam Nigeria Plc donated a block of four classrooms to the primary school.
The principal said since 2021, the school had been lacking desks and classrooms, leading to decongestion, adding that even the storey building the students are using was shaking before the management repaired some parts and the staircase.
She said instead of the maximum of 50 students required in a classroom, 80 to 90 students use a classroom, hence the appeal for upgrade.
“We are suffering congestion in the classes, since the school doesn’t have enough space, government can build a mega school like upstairs to accommodate the over 851 students in the Junior secondary school. We need more toilets as more offices,” Kachalla said.
Meanwhile, the state government has commended Vitafoam for considering Borno under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, and building the block of classrooms at the school.
