ABIA – The state government says it will in no distant future unveil a 25-year development plan, a strategic future-proof document that would articulate the state’s development trajectory for the next 25-years.
The Commissioner for Information Prince Okey Kanu who announced this while briefing the press on the outcome of this week’s executive council meeting presided over by Governor Alex Otti, said that the plan will outline the short, medium and long-term aggregate goals in a sequential progression with the ultimate goal of developing the state in a structured manner irrespective of the government in power.
On the second batch of teachers recruitment exercise, the information Commissioner said that the portal has been officially closed with twenty eight thousand, eight hundred and thirteen applications, adding that applicants have been granted a window till the 5th of December 2025 to verify their applications before the commencement of shortlisting of candidates for CBT.
He announced that the ministry of Basic and secondary Education recently conducted an annual school census in the state, noting that the exercise which is the first of its kind in the past 24 years is aimed at generating necessary data that would aid the ministry in planning and policy making for primary and secondary schools in the education sector of the state.
He said that a total of four thousand, one hundred and fifty schools, one million, six hundred and eighty seven thousand, three and twenty six learners and a total of forty five thousand, one hundred and fifty one staff participated in the exercise.
The Information Commissioner said that despite the fact that proprietors of private schools were reluctant to provide information concerning their school enrollment figures during the exercise, one of the major highlights was the distribution of one thousand, two hundred and twenty one android tablets to school Heads and data Officers across the state.
He said that the exercise equally led to the training of public school Heads, Head teachers, principals, private school proprietors and one hundred mentors facilitated by the National Education Management Information System, adding that one of the outcome was the deployment of mentors across the 17 LGAS of the state to support the digital data upload.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Media and Publicity, Ferdinand Ekeoma, General Manager, Umuahia Capital Development Authority, Mr Kingsley Agomuo were present during the press briefing.
