BEVERLY HILLS, February 14, (THEWILL) – Cross River State governor, Senator Liyel Imoke, Friday inaugurated a science, ICT laboratory and library blocks and road network at the Nigerian Navy Secondary School, Akpabuyo.
The projects were part of the state government’s aggressive policy to reposition education in the state.
The Nigerian Navy Secondary is one of the 66 secondary schools captured under the state government’s comprehensive renovation and reconstruction exercise across the state.
The laboratory houses Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and computer laboratories while the road network is meant to address the hardship students, staff encountered within the school during rainy seasons.
The governor, who was received by the Commandant of the school, Navy Commander Eleazu Uriri Regina Rex, following a guard of honor mounted by a detachment of the students in naval uniform, said emphasis should not be placed so much on the physical structures but its content because of its impact on human capacity development.
He commended staff and students of the school for its academic excellence in national examinations which he described as impressive based on its quality, adding that ”Education is basic and nothing can be compared to it because it prepares you for the future.”
The Commandant of the school, Navy Commander Regina Rex, commended the state government for extending its development programme to the school despite the fact that it is a federal institution. She said the provision of the facilities would go a long way in contributing greatly to the academic excellence which the school is noted for nationally.
Earlier, the governor, who was accompanied by the state PDP campaign council, inspected the ongoing work at the second phase of the 400 housing unit for the state civil/public servants in Akpabuyo, where the site engineer of the construction firm, Remi Opakunle, informed him that the project would be completed in March and inaugurated in April.
The inauguraion and inspection of the projects were part of the activities that heralded the campaign rally in Akpabuyo on Friday. Typical of similar rallies that had taken place in other local government, the Akpabuyo campaign drew huge crowd of party faithful numbering over 10, 000 who thronged Ikot Nakanda venue as early as 10.am. In their vociferous voices, they chanted “PDP Power to the People”, “President Goodluck Jonathan all the way”, “No vacancy in Aso Rock Villa”, “Ayade for continuity”, “Ayade you don win”, among other slogans in show of support for the presidential and Cross River State governorship candidates respectively.
