Bauchi schoolgirls battle floodwater in roofless hostel 

Female students of Government Girls’ Secondary School, Tafawa Balewa, Bauchi State, are battling floodwater successful their hostel. The flood was caused by a windstorm which blew disconnected the extortion of the hostel during a dense downpour. 

Images and a video obtained by DAILY POST showed the hostel wholly taken implicit by floodwater, with nary disposable roofing sheets. Rows of metallic bunk beds were also seen wrong the waterlogged building, portion students were captured lasting barefoot successful the flooded hostel.

The video further showed some of the students utilizing buckets and different containers to scoop h2o from the hostel successful a hopeless effort to drain the flooded dormitory and marque it habitable, arsenic others looked on.

The improvement has besides renewed concerns implicit the authorities of infrastructure successful nationalist boarding schools and the request for greater concern successful acquisition facilities crossed the state.

Reacting to the development, the Bauchi State Government said it has begun assessing schools affected by the caller rainstorm crossed the state.

The Commissioner for Education, Hon. Abdulkadir Ibrahim, said officials had identified challenges affecting the effectual u...