Ninety per cent of primary schools in the oil-rich Rivers State are dilapidated while 75 per cent lack adequate number of teachers, the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said.
Governor Fubara said this in a statement by his chief press secretary, Nelson Chukwudi, on Wednesday, Punch newspaper reported.
Mr Fubara said the state government got wind of the deplorable standard of the schools through a firm, New Global, which indicated interest in partnering with the government to enhance the capacity of teachers in the state.