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World Bank Approves $75 Million To Revamp Education In Edo

Zainab Sanni
World Bank has approved $75 million (N40 billion) to revamp education in Edo State.
The state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, announced this on Thursday when his re-election campaign team visited the palace of Elawure of Usen in Ovia South West Local Government Area of the state.
Obaseki who is campaigning on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) assured that the money which was approved by the World Bank board on Wednesday would be properly utilised to change the face of education in Edo and Nigeria in the next three years.
Obaseki said the intervention fund would help to expand the existing Edo best educational scheme from the basic to secondary level, and put the state-owned tertiary education system on the path of progress.
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“Education is very apt and we have started working to reposition and re-enact it in Edo State, particularly, beginning with basic education,” he said.
He also declared his support for the presidential probe panel on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), vowing that he would mobilise support of other governors in the Niger Delta region to demand for the refund of the epic financial malfeasance in the Board and return of the abandoned NDDC projects to the states.
The Elawure of Usen, His Royal Highness, Oba Oluagbo II, endorsed the governor for a second term in office, stressing that Obaseki had touched every segment of the state’s economy.
