As public and private schools resume for the First Term of the 2024-2025

academic session in Nasarawa State, no fewer than 350 students of the

Government Secondary School Sarkin Noma in the Keana Local Government

Area of Nasarawa State are currently stranded due to the absence of

classrooms in the school.

Eyewitness said, GSS Sarkin Noma, since its establishment in the year 2003

by the then administration of former Governor Abdullahi Adamu is yet to

receive the Nasarawa State Government’s attention till date as not a single

classroom has been built by the government, while, the current dilapidated

structure in the school premises comprising two blocks of classrooms, as well

as an examination hall and staff office were built by students of the school

and residents of the community who are predominantly small-scale farmers

and petty traders.

It also said, the only toilet facility currently being used in the school was built

many years ago by members of the National Youth Service Corps who were

posted to the school to teach the students, which had discouraged some

parents in the area from sending their children and wards to school for fear

of the unknown as the current structure in the school built through the

efforts of the community it feared would collapse anytime soon.

A resident of the community who simply identified himself as Zubeiru

Yakubu lamented what he called the “unreasonable abandonment” of the

secondary school by the government and appealed to Governor Abdullahi

Sule to, as a matter of urgency, to look into the situation with a view to

providing classrooms for the students.

While describing Governor Abdullahi Sule as a loving and caring father, he

pleaded with him to consider the sufferings of the students in the GSS Sarkin

Noma, urging that an inspection team be sent to the community to get first-

hand information on the matter.