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Abia Govt to Upgrade School of Nursing to College

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Tuesday, September 3, 2024 at 01:12 PM

Written by Omotola Adeleke

Abia Govt to Upgrade School of Nursing to College

Abia State government has concluded plans to upgrade eight Schools of Nursing and Midwifery to a full-fledge College of Nursing Sciences as the eight Nursing Schools will be merged one main campus with main campus in Umuahia.

Disclosing this during a press briefing in Umuahia, the State Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu said the intention of the state government is to make the study of nursing the best and enhance the qualification and production of top grade nurses.

His word, “This move is aimed at enhancing the qualification and production of top grade nurses in the state”.

On the provision of quality education in the state, Kanu stated that as part of the state agenda to reform the educational system, government will soon train 2000 master trainers for teachers in the state.

Kanu who was briefing the press on the outcome of this week’s executive council meeting presided over by Governor Alex Otti, disclosed that already 200 teachers have passed through the training while the remaining 1,800 would have theirs soon.

He announced that Abia schools would reopen on September 16, 2024, pointing out that the Abia State Basic Education Board, (ASUBEB) has screened, interviewed and shortlisted 40 teachers for training under the Abia State School Enhancement Team Programme, a quality assurance initiative, preparatory for the resumption of the schools in the state.

According to him, the posting of security personnel to public schools in the state has begun a measure which he said is aimed at safeguarding lives and property in the schools.

“This is part of the wider agenda of the state government to reform our education system. Also as part of the ongoing reform agenda in the educational system, the promise that the state government has made in the past has come to fulfillment with the posting of security personnel to our schools.

“Posting of security personnel is aimed at securing the lives and property of both the students and teachers including the property of the schools involved”, he added.

Prince Kanu further revealed that a total of 5,746 ASUBEB staff have been earmarked for promotion and said that it is a way to motivate the staff for greater productivity, stressing that under the Abia State School Enhancement Team programme, the board has screened 40 persons to ensure quality assurance and compliance to schools’ guidelines.

The Commissioner used the opportunity to announce that the state government would commission the newly upgraded eye centre, an annex of Abia Specialist Hospital at Amachara, today, (Tuesday, September 3, 2024).

The facility, he opined, will be declared opened for the eye healthcare of Ndi Abia and residents and that the commissioning of the project is a pointer to the premium government places on the healthcare of Abians.

In his comment, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Dr. Kenechukwu Nwosu, disclosed that the state at present is mapping out all the schools in line with the security needs assessment of the schools, pointing out that considering fencing the schools in the state

He said, “we know that our schools have long issues of vandalism hence, the AVS (Abia Vigilante Services) is being deployed to the schools. It is not only in Umuahia. In this first phase, we are also expanding to Aba and to other parts of the state as the Abia Vigilante Services continues to build required capacity.

In his speech, the Chairman, Abia State Universal Basic Education (ASUBEB), Lady Lydia Onuoha, disclosed that the state government has properly selected those teachers that would benefit from the planned trainings, adding that they have divided centres for the trainings into five after selecting participants from across the 17 LGAs of the state.

She further explained that the Abia State School Enhancement Team would be the eye of the government in the schools to ensure adequate compliance to the plans of government in the schools.

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Abia Govt to Upgrade School of Nursing to College

Abia State government has concluded plans to upgrade eight Schools of Nursing and Midwifery to a full-fledge College of Nursing Sciences as the eight Nursing Schools will be merged one main campus with main campus in Umuahia.

Disclosing this during a press briefing in Umuahia, the State Commissioner for Information, Prince Okey Kanu said the intention of the state government is to make the study of nursing the best and enhance the qualification and production of top grade nurses.

His word, “This move is aimed at enhancing the qualification and production of top grade nurses in the state”.

On the provision of quality education in the state, Kanu stated that as part of the state agenda to reform the educational system, government will soon train 2000 master trainers for teachers in the state.

Kanu who was briefing the press on the outcome of this week’s executive council meeting presided over by Governor Alex Otti, disclosed that already 200 teachers have passed through the training while the remaining 1,800 would have theirs soon.

According to him, the posting of security personnel to public schools in the state has begun a measure which he said is aimed at safeguarding lives and property in the schools.

“This is part of the wider agenda of the state government to reform our education system. Also as part of the ongoing reform agenda in the educational system, the promise that the state government has made in the past has come to fulfillment with the posting of security personnel to our schools.

“Posting of security personnel is aimed at securing the lives and property of both the students and teachers including the property of the schools involved”, he added.

The Commissioner used the opportunity to announce that the state government would commission the newly upgraded eye centre, an annex of Abia Specialist Hospital at Amachara, today, (Tuesday, September 3, 2024).

The facility, he opined, will be declared opened for the eye healthcare of Ndi Abia and residents and that the commissioning of the project is a pointer to the premium government places on the healthcare of Abians.

In his comment, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Dr. Kenechukwu Nwosu, disclosed that the state at present is mapping out all the schools in line with the security needs assessment of the schools, pointing out that considering fencing the schools in the state

She further explained that the Abia State School Enhancement Team would be the eye of the government in the schools to ensure adequate compliance to the plans of government in the schools.

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