The Ondo State Authorities has accepted an N3.5 billion counterpart fund for the Common Primary Training Fee (UBEC) to help the development and renovation of public major faculties throughout the state.
In response to the Commissioner for Training, Mr Olaolu Akindolire, who disclosed this after the State Govt Council (SEC) assembly chaired by Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa on Thursday, the counterpart fund would fetch the state over N7 billion.
Akindolire, who was flanked by different cupboard members, stated that the development and renovation of the general public faculties can be carried out throughout the three senatorial districts of the state.
With the training commissioner additional stated that the transfer will additional improve the progress made within the training sector within the state, the Particular Adviser on Well being to the Governor, Prof. Simidele Odimayo, revealed that the federal government had additionally accepted the renovation of major healthcare amenities in all 203 wards of the state.
Odimayo, who said that the renovations will embrace safety fencing, employees lodging, solar energy, and borehole installations to make sure the amenities are well-equipped and correctly secured, expressed the federal government’s satisfaction with the low incidence of Lassa fever in September, alongside zero instances of cholera and monkeypox.
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The Commissioner for Data, Wale Akinlosotu, reaffirmed the governor’s dedication to fixing all potholes within the state, saying that the Ministry of Infrastructure had been directed to make sure that by December 2024, the main roads in Ondo State are pothole-free.
Whereas sympathising with the folks of the coastal neighborhood of Ayetoro within the Ilaje Native Authorities Space of the state over the incessants sea incursions within the space, the Commissioner for Setting, Oyeniyi Oseni, disclosed that the federal government had accomplished a technical overview of the Aiyetoro shoreline safety challenge.
Oseni pressured that with the completion of the overview, the non permanent and long-term options to forestall the environmental catastrophe would quickly be applied.
In the meantime, the Commissioner for Native Authorities and Chieftaincy Affairs, Amidu Takuro, said that the exco additionally accepted the appointment of Oba Daramola Oluwasola Samuel as the brand new Olupele of Ipele in Owo Native Council Space.
