Jones re-emphasised that His Excellency, Gov. Yahaya Bello was committed to revamping all the four state\u2019s technical colleges, and create 17 additional ones in the remaining 17 local government areas of Kogi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier, the Vice Chairman of Mopamuro LGA, Hon. Mercy Obajemu, led a team from the council to receive the commissioner and his entourage, on behalf of the Chairman, Hon Sunday Alumo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vice chairman commended the commissioner for his visit to personally assess the facilities in the school<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She further expressed her appreciation to His Excellency, Governor Yahaya Bello, for his commitment to revamping education sector especially technical education in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vice chairman, however solicited for the intervention of the state government for the rehabilitation of other secondary schools in the council, whose structures had been dilapidated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Principal of GTC, Mopa, Mr Olusegun Ode, commended the commissioner and his team for the visit, saying he was so happy for the action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He thanked the governor for his intervention to resuscitating the college, while appealing for provision of adequate qualified teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Government Technical College, Mopa established in 1975.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commissioner further inspected UBEC\/JSS and LGEA School Kakun, in Kabba\/Bunu LGA, where he assured the community that Government would do everything it could to improve the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones said he had personally adopted the school as his own, and promised to do his best in collaboration with the community leaders to uplift the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commissioner was accompanied by the Permanent Secretary, Pastor Emmanuel Idenyi, Director Science and Technology, Mr Dipo Aiyenibe, and other staff of the ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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… As Education Commissioner Extends Assessment Tour To GTC (Techmo) Mopa By Stephen Adeleye The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Hon. Wemi Jones, FCIB, on Tuesday extended his final tour of assessment of the four Government Technical Colleges (GTCs) in the State to Government Technical College, Mopa in Mopamuro LGA. Speaking to journalists after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,200],"tags":[180,165,757,74,46,447,918],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}