- These smart schools aim to provide more than just primary education, extending to a 12-year compulsory and free education for every child born in the state
The Enugu State government is currently constructing 260 smart schools across the 260 political wards, with completion expected by 2025, as announced by Gov Peter Mbah during a town-hall meeting at the Banquet Hall of the Old Government Lodge, GRA, Enugu. Work is already advanced in 160 wards, and construction in the remaining wards will commence soon.
These smart schools aim to provide more than just primary education, extending to a 12-year compulsory and free education for every child born in the state.
According to him, early life learning was included in the smart school initiative and “with that, the children will be absorbed from nursery to primary schools”.
He added, “They will be exposed to a modern learning environment. This will see a transition from chalkboard to smart boards and our pupils will no longer struggle with notebooks as they’ll be given notepads for their lesson notes. Our children are at the epicentre of our plans for the state.
“We expect that when you talk about an Enugu child, you are talking about a smart ICT child on ICT. We are also designing to factor our smart children into scholarship schemes.”
He also said his administration was planning to extend her palliative programmes to students across the state.
In the health sector, Mbah said his administration was building 260 Type II Health Centres across the wards and 30 of such health centres had already been awarded, adding that 100 would soon be awarded.
The state government has also increased the number of nurses admitted into state-owned institutions and the schools of nursing are getting the needed face-lift, he said.