Governor Aiyedatiwa Approves Establishment Of Secondary Education Board

The Ondo State governor, Hon. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, connected Friday, approved the constitution of the Ondo State Senior Secondary School Education Board (OSSEC) to boost infrastructure improvement and absorption successful the state’s secondary schools.

LEADERSHIP learnt that the support for the constitution of OSSEC was a nonstop effect to the Federal Government’s directive mandated by the gazetted NSSEC Act requesting states to supply a 5% counterpart money to enactment infrastructural improvement crossed secondary schools successful the 36 States of the country.

The State’s Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Professor Igbekele Ajibefun, disclosed this successful his bureau successful Akure, the authorities capital.

Ajibefun disclosed that the caller committee volition collaboratively code the existing infrastructural shortage successful Senior Secondary Schools successful collaboration with the National Senior Secondary School Education Commission (NSSEC).

The Commissioner said, “With this approval, Governor Aiyedatiwa’s medication has afloat aligned with the Federal Government’s resoluteness to upgrade infrastructure successful our secondary schools.”

Prof. Ajibefun appreciated the governor’s committedness to sustainable acquisition policies.

Speaking connected the benefits and scope of OSSEC, Dr. Akindele Ige, the Administrative Secretary of the Ministry who was besides a subordinate of the constitution committee, explained that OSSEC volition pb to improved backing for schoolhouse absorption and indispensable infrastructural development, which is anticipated to boost pupil enrollment crossed the state.

The scope of the caller committee is chiseled arsenic the Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC) volition proceed to negociate facilities and infrastructure from superior schools up to Junior Secondary School Three (JSS3). While OSSEC volition specifically instrumentality work for the Senior Secondary Schools (SSS1 to SSS3).

When operational, OSSEC volition relation arsenic an bureau nether the State Ministry of Education and volition guarantee its programmes bash not interfere with different acquisition bodies successful the State.