Governor Bello Giving Education A New Face In Kogi

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello is setting a new phase in the education sector as revamping in the areas of standard infrastructures and quality workforce is ongoing.

 A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Onogwu Muhammed on Monday noted that education is pivotal to the governor's administration in ensuring the state's world-class position.

According to the statement, Bello made this known after inspecting ongoing projects at the College of Nursing and Midwifery Obangede, assuring the institution that additional infrastructures and manpower would be met in no distant time.

While conducting an on-the-spot assessment at Government Technical College in Oboroke-ihima in Okehi LGA, the governor promised to remodel the long-forgotten but crucial academic institution to a standard worthy of reckoning.

He noted that the school would be captured amongst the list of soon-to-be-remodelled secondary schools selected across the entire state and would be fully equipped with gadgets and facilities of global repute in a bid to ease learning, create a suitable academic environment and ensure that products from these schools could compete globally. 

In her remarks, the Provost of the College of Nursing and Midwifery Obangede, Oziohu Abraham expressed appreciation to the governor for yet another historic visit to the college asserting that his visit was always followed by good news to the institution of learning.

The provost noted the school of Nursing and Midwifery was merely having students until he gave it a Midas touch and the number grew.

"With the ongoing and planned projects by the governor as well as accreditation of new courses, the college would record yet another historic increase in the number of in takes," she said.