The Federal Executive Council, FEC, yesterday approved N8.7 billion for the printing and distribution of textbooks and library resource materials for primary and junior secondary schools across the country.
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa'i and the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike, made the disclosure yesterday in Abuja after the FEC meeting.
The ministers said the textbooks would be available in the next six weeks to the pupils in primaries one to six and those of junior secondary schools.
They said the project covered the printing of over four million books in English Language, Maths, Basic Science and Technology, Social Studies and Library Resource Materials, and would be provided free of charge.
The project is to be funded through 15 per cent of the consolidated revenue of Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC.
The council also approved N2.138 million for a contract for the supply of water to the Abuja Technology Village and its environs, N427 million for tender and design of engineering infrastructure contract in Kyami district along Airport Road and purchase of 40 vehicles as part of the preparation of the National Population Commission, NPC, for the 2016 Census.
The Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, told journalists that the NPC brought memo for the purchase of utility vehicles.
This was approved and President Goodluck Jonathan directed that all the vehicles should be purchased locally from indigenous manufacturers, a development which fetched the Nnewi-based Innoson Motors Vehicle Manufacturing Company, IVM, supported by the Bank of Industry, the contract.
National Mirror
Textbooks are very important when it comes to Nigerian schools...This is very lovely I must say. We need to take education seriously!