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From SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri

YOBE State Government has awarded N2.7billion contracts fro the construction of 17 Boarding Primary Schools in each of the 17 Local Government Councils of the state.

Governor Mamman Ali of Yobe State who disclosed this at the State Executive Council [SEC] Meeting in Damaturu; said his administration intends to improve on the educational sector of the state right from the primary level to the tertiary level within the coffers of the state government.

According to him, as part of the measures adopted to achieve the state goals and boost education in the state, standard Boarding Primary Schools of international standard would next year commence enrolment and activities, if completed.

The governor added that going by the design and plan, each of the boarding school has pupils hostels, dinning hall, assembly hall, science and art laboratories, library, sports complex/play ground, pupils clinic, staff room, staff quarters, administrative block, blocks of classrooms/academic blocks, borehole, stand by generator and school bus among other facilities and amenities provided to standard.

Governor Ali said also by the time the projects are completed, they will be the first of its kind in the country and serve as stimuli to encourage parents/guardians in the state and northern Nigeria as a whole send their wards to school to acquire both western and eastern education thereby reducing drastically level illiteracy in the society and region generally.