Sokoto renovates four schools with N162.5m

Sokoto State government has spent the sum of N162.5m on the renovation of four secondary schools damaged by the rainstorm.

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Science and Technology, Muhammad Bello Idris, who has been running the ministry since the death of the commissioner, Alhaji Nasir S. Zarumai, said at a briefing press Tuesday that the affected schools included Government Technical College, Farfaru, (N37.8m); Government Science Secondary School, Gwadabawa, (N43.2m); Government Technical College, Binji, (N42.8m) and Government Girls’ Commercial Secondary School, Tambuwal, (N38.7m).

According to him, the additional mandate of improving Information Communication Technology (ICT) element and other related issues, apart from its basic responsibility for science and technical education, has necessitated an increase in budgetary allocation from N1.6b in 2015 to N4.3b in 2016.

He informed that all feeding contractors have been paid their bills from March 2015 to June 2016 amounting to N171.8m while N38.3m was spent on the payment of examination fees for Senior Secondary Three students in schools under the ministry for 2015.