Tukuba Primary School in Abuja has run years with only three teachers teaching all classes.
The number of teachers fell to three—apart from a headmaster and an assistant—after two others transferred out without replacement, said Stella Ozegbe, a teacher at the school.
She added the school has run in neglect for several academic sessions without textbook, toilets, teaching aid, water and access road.
The school also is short of classrooms for its pupils after half an entire classroom block fell into dilapidation, its wall fell off and grass began growing on its roof.
Only two of the four blocks on the school premises are in use.
The lack facing Tukuba Primary School came to light during a community outreach organised by the charity ActionAid Nigeria and Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All in this year’s Global Action Week on Education for All.
Only three teachers with so many pupils “means they are having multigrade classes,” said Ifeoma Charles-Monwuba, deputy country director for ActionAid Nigeria. “It is not easy to improve the learning outcome in those conditions.
“When we know that all over the world, children are sitting in classrooms that have internet facilities, all manner of state-of-the-art conditions, we must call attention to the fact that right here in the FCT, we still have these kinds of conditions.”
Olu Abiola, national coordinator of Teachers Economic and Welfare Programme, described it as “very painful and agonising situation learning is taking place in this typical rural community.”
He said neglect of the school has also deprived the surrounding community of development infrastructure that should have been sited there on account of the school’s presence.
He urged the FCT education department to post adequate teachers and make Tukuba environment conducive to retain teachers.
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