…as 115,049 pupils pass primary six exams
Charles Aniagwu, Delta State Commissioner for Works, Rural and Riverine Roads, has said the urban renewal plans of the incumbent Governor Sheriff Oborevwori are yielding tangible fruits across urban centres in the State.
Aniagwu stated this in Warri while speaking to journalists after an inspection of the reconstruction of Upper and Lower Erejuwa Road, Esisi Road, and Hospital Road, Warri.
Aniagwu, who was flanked by Festus Ahon, the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor and Solomon Akpotowho of Ministry of Works noted that the resurfacing of the road signposted Governor Oborevwori’s urban renewal plans for Warri and other urban centres across the State.
Before we came to this place, we inspected some roads in Sapele. Those are some roads that we are trying to construct so that we can clean up the Sapele axis. We are hoping that, any time from now, we will have groundbreaking to signal the commencement of works on those roads.
“Here in Warri, we came to look at the roads supervised by my colleague in the Ministry of Works (Highways and Urban Roads), Comrade Reuben Izeze.
“On the hospital road, there is a little part of it that has not been completed because the Local Government was trying to handle about 130 –meter stretch of it but they didn’t do it properly and we are going to communicate to the governor for us to be able to clean up that corridor.
“From what I have seen from the other roads, the contractor has done a very wonderful job and, anytime from now, the governor will be available to commission this road which will signal the official commencement of their usage.
“We are happy that our urban renewal programme is indeed yielding good results. You can see that the governor’s intention to do more for the people is also yielding fruits and so the people are happy”, he said.
Meanwhile, out of a total of 118,827 pupils that registered for the 2024 Cognitive and Placement Examination (primary six exams) conducted in Delta State in May this year, 117,348 candidates were present and sat for the exam.
Out of the 117,348 pupils that sat for the exams, 115,049 passed, while a total of 2,499 failed.
This was contained in a statement from Augustine Oghoro, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministries of Primary and Secondary Education on behalf of Kingsley Ashibogwu, the State Commissioner for Primary Education.
Oghoro stated that the categories of the success of the candidates revealed that 24% had distinction, 63% merit, and 9%, pass.
