FG Votes N47.5bn To Upgrade 50 Senior Secondary Schools

The Federal Government has earmarked N47.5 billion for the first phase upgrade of 50 selected senior secondary schools.

The National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) Executive Secretary Iyela Ajayi said this during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Government Science Secondary School (GSSC) Koton Karfe, Kogi State, on Wednesday.

Ajayi said the GSSC Koton Karfe was the only school in Kogi State that had benefited from the first phase of the intervention. He urged other schools to exercise some patience as their schools would also be considered in the next phase.

The commission chief said: “This is just the first phase, when this phase is completed then we can then report to President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of Education and say we have finished completion of this phase.

“This will allow them to come and complete this project and we will move onto the next phase. “So those schools that are not going to benefit from the first phase, I want them to be patient because after the first phase, we will come to them. “The intervention for the first phase will cover about N47.5 billion for the 50 schools.”