The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said on Saturday, that the Federal Government has commenced the rehabilitation of 104 unity colleges across the country .
The Minister disclosed this during the monitoring of 2019 common entrance examination put together by the National Examination Council, in Abuja.
Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Sonny Echono, explained that the government had already begun recruitment of teachers to carter for the new intake next term.
He said: “We have a challenge of access to education in this country, as part of our interventions to ensure that we bring more children into the school system and reduce the number of kids who are out-of-school, we are having so many programmes.
“One of it is to increase the spaces available in our unity colleges.
He said the rehabilitation exercise include replacement of broken toilets, ceilings, creation of additional classrooms and the renovation of existing ones.
The minister said the renovation, directed by President Muhammadu Buhari, is aimed at expanding access to education in the country.
The minister said about 25, 000 students would be given admission into the colleges nationwide.
“You are aware that each time we do this there are other consequential interventions that are needed.
“Besides the security infrastructure, we are now providing both new classrooms and as well as rehabilitating the dilapidated ones and we are also dealing with the libraries, laboratories and so on
“You need to have additional classrooms; you need to have additional teachers.
“We are pleased that Mr. President graciously approved that we should begin to rehabilitate many of these unity colleges.
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