The Yobe Government said it had
rehabilitated over 300 classrooms and
provided infrastructure in schools destroyed
by insurgents across the state “to avoid gaps
in the system”.

The Director of Press to the State Governor,
Mr Abdullahi Bego, said this in an interview
with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on
Tuesday in Damaturu.
Bego said that the state government had
made education and health care a priority
that would receive major intervention in the
next four years.

“About 3,000 teachers have been recruited
and posted to schools across the state to
boost manpower requirement to improve
the standard of education in the state.
“The state government has committed
enormous resources in rehabilitation and
provision of instructional materials to
primary and secondary schools to ensure
that communities whose schools were
destroyed by insurgents get back to school.

“Similarly, government has provided
resources to the tertiary institutions to
ensure full accreditation of courses offered
by the tertiary institutions and, I am glad to
say that 98 per cent of courses offered by
the State University have been fully
accredited and recognised,” he said.
He said the College of Education, Gashua,
had received similar support and was
producing over 1,000 NCE and 100 degree
graduates fully qualified for teaching in
schools.

“The state government had diligently
absorbed 15,000 university, HND, OND and
NCE graduates under the Youth
Empowerment Programme, while unskilled
youth were trained in various trades and
settled with working tools and take-off
grants after graduation for self reliance.
“The Gaidam Administration achieved all
these, including prompt payment of salaries
through financial prudence and, without
seeking bank loans at a time when many
states could not even pay salary,” the
director said.

He also said that the state government had
completed the construction of a 200-bed
capacity ultra modern hospital in Damaturu
to serve as a referral hospital that was being
provided with state-of-the-art equipment.
“Similarly, new wards and staff quarters
have been constructed at the state
Specialists Hospital,while those in Potiskum,
Gashua and Geidam would be totally
rehabilitated,” he said.

Bego said the state government had
recruited over 300 nurses to boost
manpower requirement in health
institutions and implemented CONMESS and
CONHESS salary scales for doctors and
nurses. (NAN)

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