Adamu Adamu, Nigeria’s Minister of Education on Tuesday commended Governor Rauf Aregbesola for creating sound learning environment and laying good foundation quality education through construction and equipping of mega schools located across the three Senatorial districts of the state.
Mallam Adam, who was represented by Professor Kamoru Olayiwola Usman at the opening ceremony and commencement of learning in Ataoja Government High School, Osogbo and other public schools named after Professor Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate and others, requested other state governments to emulate such an investment undertaken by Governor Rauf Aregbesola.
BusinessDay reports that though the contruction work was completed last year on the schools, students officially commenced learning at the first four schools completed under the first phase recently in all the commissioned schools, namely, Ataoja Government High School in Osogbo, Wole Soyinka Government High School, Ejigbo, Osogbo Government High School and Adventist Government High School in Ede.
Speaking further, Adamu lauded Osun for realising that education can only thrive in an environment that is conducive, saying education should not be limited to a situation when a person can only read and write, but how such person can impact positively on the larger society.
He held that Osun in no distant future will enjoy the seed that is being sowed by the present administration with the building of the state of the art schools constructed across the state.
In his opening address, Governor Aregbesola noted that his administration has redefined the architecture and environment of quality education.
He added that schools being built will compete with any school from any part of the world, saying the high school is a three-in-one school with the capacity to accommodate 3,000 students.
According to him, “Each school has four principals with three superintending over 1,000 pupils each, and an overall senior principal. It is standard that each school has 72 classrooms of 49 square-meters, each capable of sitting 49 students.
“It has six offices for study groups. It is also equipped with six laboratories, 48 toilets for pupils and another eight for the teachers, one science library, one Arts library, facility manager’s office, a bookshop and a sickbay.
“Other facilities are the senior principal’s office, three principals’ offices, a bursar’s office, three general staff offices, a record store and security shed/reception. They are all fully furnished. The schools each has its own borehole and power transformer”.
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