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Pupils still take classes on bare floor in Borno (Photos)
One of the indicators that Nigeria may be winning the war against Boko Haram insurgency is the fact that schools, across Borno State—the center of the war, have been reopened after years of closure.
Sadly, however, most of these pupils, recovering from the trauma, are not provided with adequate learning facilities.
A visit by Ripples Nigeria to one of the reopened schools, Moduganari Junior Secondary School in Maiduguri LGEA, revealed that pupils sit on bare floor to have their classes.
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“The government actually provided the sitting arrangements for us in 2015,” a source within the school management told Ripples Nigeria. “The problem, however, is because this school served as a temporary camp for [displaced] people from Benisheik who were brought here during the presidential and senatorial elections. They were here for about three weeks and they were the ones who destroyed everything.”
Ripples Nigeria, gathered that Prior to the elections, the school had written the authorities over the need to ensure, that pupils’ chairs and tables were safe from destruction but not much was done about this. “Everything was destroyed and vandalized,” another source said, adding that no one has come to the aid of the school since then.
Ripples Nigeria confirmed that the school had written the state SUBEB chairman twice, but the board is yet to fix things for the school and many other schools with similar issues.
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Anita Kingsley
March 17, 2017 at 5:36 pm
The federal government is not trying enough, it means there’s peace in Borno since kids have returned to classrooms, but why can’t the government provide necessary tools to enhance their academics? Sigh!
Agbor Chris
March 17, 2017 at 5:41 pm
This is good news. Everyone can now move peacefully in Borno state and carry on with their daily activities. Thanks to Buhari for fighting so hard against Biko Haram
yanju omotodun
March 17, 2017 at 5:46 pm
The fact is that, when it comes to education, northerners still don’t value it and aside that, in Quranic classes, Moslem children are to seat on bare floor which in turn is inculcated into formal education in the North. So it is more of culture.
seyi jelili
March 17, 2017 at 5:58 pm
That does not follow at all. It is the state government that is not thinking along creating amenities for students and pupils of the Borno. Even before Boko Haram insurgency, most schools in borno has no seats and even their school days are irregular.