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By Madu Obi
Basic Schools in Anambra State have received instructional materials and shuttle buses worth millions of naira to enhance teaching, learning and supervision.
Among the items to be distributed were ICT equipment, English, Mathematics and core subjects textbooks, magnetic white boards, early childhood care and development, ECCD toys, JSS plastic chairs and tables, iron framed teachers' tables, and six shuttle buses.
At the flag off of the distribution exercise at the headquarters of the Anambra State Universal Basic Board, ASUBEB, in Awka, the state Head of Service, Mrs. Theodora Igwegbe, who represented Governor Chukwuma Soludo assured that the era of schools without teachers and learning equipment is over in the state.
Igwegbe said that while the instructional materials would be distributed to all schools, the six shuttle buses would be deployed for quality assurance monitoring visits.
She noted that education in Anambra State remains free, recalling that the state government recently distributed 2000 laptops to Head Teachers of schools to enhance their digital skills and facilitate a speedy digitization of education in the state.
Speaking during the ceremony, the Executive Chairman of ASUBEB, Dr. Vera Nwadinobi commended Governor Soludo for his unwavering interest in promoting education in the state, recalling how he made the procurement of the materials possible by approving the payment of N3.093,768,r1r57.72 matching grant to UBEC/SUBEC 2019, 2020, and 2021, intervention projects.
Nwadinobi said that apart from the non payment of any form of levy in both primary and secondary schools in the state, the recruitment of 5,000 teachers and the ongoing recruitment of extra 3,000 teachers to cushion the upsurge of school enrollment, the governor has also not delayed in the payment of teachers' salaries and gratuities.
According to her, the state government has also not forgotten the mission schools which, she added, will also benefit from the distribution of the instructional materials.
"We must commend the governor for changing the face of basic education in Anambra State", Igwegbe said.
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