Governor of Kano State, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has laid a foundation for the construction of a giant Secondary School at Kaura Goge, Nasarawa Local Government of the state.
I’m a statement by the governor’s Chief Press Secretary,. Mustapha Muhammad in Kano on Sunday, the school,l if completed would replace the famous Maikwatashi school that was dilapidated and suffered encroachment and fraudulently sold off parts of the land by unscrupulous people.
This, according to Muhammad, drew the governor’s attention to intervene, and promise to build a new school in replacement of the Maikwatashi.
He said the governor said he had handed over the ownership of former Maikwatashi school to the Kano State Colleges of Arts and Islamic Studies (CAS) in view to utilize it for educational purposes.
“Governor Abba in his speech stated that the construction of this school will ease the suffering of students around the area that they had to move far away to attend school as far as Sabon gari areas.
“There are huge number of students in this area that had to go to Sabongari for schooling, that’s why we want to build a school here,” the governor was quoted as saying in the statement.
The CPS said the Governor urged the residents of the area to cooperate with the contractor and warned the contractor to do very good job.
Earlier in his address the commissioner for education, Goni Ali Haruna Makoda said the giant school will gulp N1.3 billion naira.
The school will house 32 classrooms, 36 toilets, 4 libraries among other structures.
Ali Makoda described the laying foundation of the school as promise made promise kept by the peoples governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf.
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