11 New Model Boarding Schools To Begin Operation In Bayelsa

IN a bid to raise the standard of education in the state

Gboribiogha John-Jonah

Bayelsa State deputy governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John-Jonah (retd), has said that the state government will reintroduce boarding facilities in the public school system with the planned take off of 11 new model boarding schools in September. 


Gboribiogha John-Jonah John-Jonah, yesterday, during the monthly transparency news briefing in his office at Government House, Yenagoa, said that the model schools were located in all the local government headquarters in the state, while councils with huge population density, have more than one. 

According to him, the principals of the model schools would be assisted by a Governing Committees to ensure that the schools are effectively run, adding that in readiness for the take off, the state government had awarded contracts to the Nigerian Engineering Works, NEW, for the construction of beds and desks for the students.

Pupils in class

 The deputy governor who was flanked by the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Chief Serena Dokubo-Spiff, Commissioner for Information, Mr. Jonathan Obuebite, Head of Service, Dr Peter Singabele, said: “The state government has very grandeur plans of revitalizing the school system and the plan is to make sure that by the end of September or sometime in October boarding schools are reintroduced.”