Ekiti schools benefit from World Bank Donations.

Tamarauemi Ebimini

Three Technical Colleges in Ekiti State have benefitted from the World Bank assisted IDEAS project to the tune of N300 million.

The funding is to enhance skills and manpower development for the formal and informal sectors.

Presenting the cheques to the benefitting colleges at a ceremony in Ado-Ekiti, Governor Kayode Fayemi, implored everyone to embrace it and partake in the activities so that many people can benefit from the intervention.

The benefitting colleges were Government Technical Colleges, Otun, Government Technical College, Ijero and Government technical College, Igbara Odo.

They got $250,000 each.

The Governor who made the presentation further assured the people that his administration was more committed to providing enabling environment for developmental projects in the state and charged all partakers to adhere strictly to all bank’s guidelines in the course of project implementation.

Fayemi who was elated at the World Bank IDEAS project which he said would assist his government to accelerate programmes targeted at youth empowerment, said the project would focus on collaborating with the state in the training of teachers to impact technical education knowledge which he said could not be driven by government alone but through collaboration with the private sector.

While reassuring the people of the state that he would live the state better than he met it in 2018, Fayemi said he was glad that enrolment in all the six technical colleges in the state, which was barely 700 in 2018, is currently at about 2,500. This, he said was achieved through constant sensitisation and all round improvement in the colleges.