Edo SUBEB Embarks on 181 Projects to Improve Infrastructure in Primary, Junior Secondary Schools

Adibe Emenyonu in Benin City

In order to continue improving infrastructure in public primary and secondary schools in Edo State, the State Universal Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) over the weekend, announced that it has embarked on 181 projects

The projects which the agency said were ongoing, included the construction and renovation of classrooms, perimeter fencing, toilets among others.
Addressing newsmen at a press briefing in Benin city on the achievements of the Board in the last two years, Chairman of the Board, Mrs. Ozevize Salami, disclosed that the state government provided free education for pupils in the state up to JSS 3, explaining that the school curriculum is enriched with life skills that makes the pupils competitive should they decide to discontinue their education.

She further disclosed that 228 schools under the Edo Basic Education Transformation System (EdoBEST), have 346,757 pupils, with 15,125 digitally trained teachers, adding that governance across SUBEB and the schools has drastically improved.

In this regard, Salami announced that SUBEB has built a formidable crop of teachers who use proven modern classrooms and pupil management techniques.
“What we are doing is building systems that can outlast us at the end of our tenure”, the SUBEB Chairman stated, stressing that the board emphasises values in raising pupils/students to know and appreciate things.

Salami, however, explained that schools in the rural or hard to reach areas cannot have the EdoBEST delivered to them as those in the urban areas hence a special package has been designed to deliver learning to them.