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This Day (Lagos)
September 27, 2002 
Posted to the web September 27, 2002 

Josephine Lohor And Juliana Taiwo
Kaduna With Agency Report 

The Minister of Education, Prof. Babalola Borishade, yesterday in Kaduna unfolded a comprehensive plan to reinvigorate secondary schools in the country, which was to include, emphasis on information, communitcation technology (ICT).

Addressing the 49th session of the National Council of Education (NCE), Borishade said that a computer laboratory would be equipped in each 102 schools throughout the country. He used the occasion to warn the operators of the banned satellite campuses, as government was ready to deal with culprit institutions to ensure quality and international respect for Nigerian universities certificate.
"I want to warn all those institutions which are still secretly operating these outreach campuses under various guises to discontinue such programmes immediately as the law enforcement agencies have been instructed to take decisive action to ensure compliance to government orders," he warned.

On the ICT programme, he said under the computer-in-schools initiative, each state and the federal capital territory were expected to nominate five colleges during the first phase of the programme.
"Arrangements have been concluded to link these schools electronically with some schools in the United Kingdom, South Africa and South-East Asia." Aborishade also announced the "re-introduction of moral and religious education, ethics, values, civic responsibilities and democratic principles as part of a body of knowledge at all levels of our insitutions."

Harping on the federal unity schools, he said that the government had carried out a re-orientation for the principals and vice-principals and redeployed some of them, while the number of students in each class had been reduced. The Minister restated the re-introduction of the Higher School Certificate (HSC) programme in some of the schools to enhance the maturity of the intakes of students into tertiary institutions. He asppealed to state governments to set up schools for gifted children to ease the pressure on the Federal Government Academy in Suleja.