Children of Internally Displaced Person of school-age in some parts of the North-east affected by the insurgency are back in school as the federal government launched Mobile Containerised schools last week in Maiduguri, Borno State.

A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice-President, Mr. Laolu Akande, said a 50-foot container being used as a mobile classroom, would efficiently contain 35 students and was fully equipped with basic educational materials and furnishing including solar panels for electricity powering lights and fans.

The mobile classes are complete with chairs and tables, blackboard/whiteboard, a projector and a metal storage cabinet.
Speaking at the launch held on Tuesday at the Dalori IDP Camp in the Borno State capital, the Vice-President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), recalled that the project was one of the many things that would come the way of the North-east following his visit to Borno State in July at the instance of President Muhammadu Buhari.

“The launch of this Containerised Schools is a major step and a sheer demonstration that we are working towards-building the infrastructure in the North-east as we need to secure the future of our children,” the vice-president remarked in a message delivered on his behalf by his aide, Dr. Mariam Masha.

In his address, Governor Kashim Shettima commended the federal government and the Presidential Initiative on the North-east, PINE, for coming to the aid of the IDPs in Borno State adding that these containerised mobile schools would help to make qualitative education affordable to the vulnerable school-aged children who had been most affected by the activities of insurgents.

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