Governor Ifeany iOkowa of Delta State has said that facilities in public secondary schools must be upgraded to meet the current trend in the education sector.
The governor made the statement while inspecting the level of havoc wreaked by fire at the Chude Girls’ Model Secondary School, Sapele.
According to the governor, public institutions should have facilities that will make the learning environment be in tune with modern trends, noting that with what he saw at the model school, there was the need for an emergency situation to be declared in the education sector.
Governor Okowa, while thanking God that no life was lost in the inferno that razed the hostel of the institution, assured memebersof staff and students of the school that his administration has taken steps to ameliorate the effect of the fire on them.
The Principal of the school, A.O. Omniabors, thanked Governor Okowa for his timely intervention, adding that philanthropists have come to the aid of the students since Friday night when the fire incident happened.
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