By Musa Ubandawaki (Sokoto State Correspondent)
The State Universal Basic Education Board has commenced the distribution of plastic tables and chairs for pupils of Early Childhood Care Development and Education Schools across the 23 LGEAs of the state.
The Board Chairman Alhaji Shuaibu Gwanda Gobir, who spoke through the Permanent Secretary of the board, Alhaji Faruku Shehu, said the plastic tables and chairs were provided through 2018 SUBEB, UBEC intervention funds.
Alhaji Gwanda explained that Twenty thousand (20,000) school furniture would be provided under the intervention scheme.
According to him items included one thousand two hundred and seventy plastic tables and seven thousand six hundred and twenty plastic chairs for Pupils of ECCDE classes.
He said the furniture were meant for the newly constructed schools and renovated classrooms across the State.
The board chairman said since inception of the Aminu Waziri led administration construction and renovation of schools has been the boards major priority.
The sole aim according to the chairman is to ensure conducive atmosphere for learning and teaching environment at the basic level of education. The distribution exercise however started with Sokoto North Local Government Education Authority with Seventy plastic tables and seven hundred plastic chairs for ECCDE pupils. NNL.
