Governor Willie Obiano doles out 300m and 433m to the Anglican and Catholic Churches in ANAMBRA state.

This act of 'charity' I view with utmost suspicious. Hope he is trying to curry favour from the Church men. If that is the case, then he has failed.

Wake up my dear Governor.

Very nice development...

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Governor Willie Obiano doles out 300m and 433m to the Anglican and Catholic Churches in ANAMBRA state.

This act of 'charity' I view with utmost suspicious. Hope he is trying to curry favour from the Church men. If that is the case, then he has failed.

Wake up my dear Governor.

STFU. This is a very old picture. where were you when peter obi was doling out billions to these churches? idiat

Am not against it but he has done virtually nothing. No roads, except three obnoxious flyovers located at Awka. Frankly, those flyovers are not all needed.

Endtime governor

I am sure Anambra people don chop belefull.

Anambra state is more or less a 'canon state',its inhabitants are very spiritual,they hold their achievements to God and most laurels won by the state educationally,are basically through the efforts of missionary schools and other christian theological establishments and so goes with other South Eastern states.
Any allocation or fund given to churches,plays a serious impart on the educational,sociological and developmental wellbeing of its citizenry. The churches provides the impetus needed for social re-engineering,they work hand in hand with the government.

its to be invested in education, schools were returned to the churches who originianally owned them and money given to them to invest in it

He's wearing his face on his clothes again! MY MICHAEL JORDAN GOVERNOR!

The state gave money to churches in order to upgrade and maintain the schools under their care. Are Nairaland people this dumb?

Obiano boosts Mission Schools in Anambra with N1.9bn

Governor Willie Obiano has continued to give shape and form to the promise of CONTINUITY which he made to Ndi Anambra during his gubernatorial campaign days as following the precedent set by his predecessor, he doled out a total of N1.9 billion, Friday, to Mission Schools in the state for the 2014 Universal Basic Education projects.

The ceremony which took place at the Women Development Center, Awka attracted the leaders of the two dominant churches in the state – the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church who mobilized members of their congregations en-masse to grace the occasion.

Out of the total sum, N433 million was given to the Catholic mission and N300 to the Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion while N1.082 billion is in the custody of Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board for funding public primary and junior secondary education. Governor Obiano said the fund allocated to each mission was based on the number of schools that government had returned to them. He confirmed that funds released to the Church by his predecessor were judiciously utilized which encouraged his administration to sustain the policy.


The governor further explained that the fund would be used for the provision of infrastructure and furniture in the benefitting schools and restated his government’s commitment to delivering functional education, adding that there were already considerations on how to accommodate Pentecostal schools.

Governor Obiano also disclosed that the state government had started paying twenty percent of basic salary to teachers in the rural areas and three thousand naira to teachers that handle core subjects. He announced that physically challenged persons and junior students of technical schools are now on state government scholarship. He stated that the state government has upgraded infrastructure at the school for physically challenged persons at Isulo; provided internet facility in schools; is building perimeter fencing in boarding schools and training marshals to assist in maintaining security in schools.[b][/b]

The Commissioner for Education, Professor Kate Omenugha said the fund beneficiaries had secured approved work plan and that the utilization would be subject to monitoring and evaluation processes.

Money is good