BELOW are a few handpicked pictures taken by our reporters while investigating the condition of government-owned secondary schools, and other secondary schools under government grant-aid in Benue State. All the pictures were taken in June 2022.
A crumbled block of classrooms at GSS Okpoga, Okpokwu LGA. Far off in the background is a PTA-built facility.
A block of gradually crumbling classrooms at GSS Okpoga.
An SS 2 class at GSS Okpoga furnished with plastic chairs and desks supplied by the state government last year.
Dilapidated buildings at grant-aided NKST Secondary School, Makurdi.
Another building at NKST Secondary School, Makurdi.
this is also in NKST Secondary School, Makurdi.
A crumbling block of classrooms still in use at GSS Agila, Ado LGA.
A block of staff quarters at GSS Ulayi, Ado LGA, slowly falling apart.
One of the hostels of GSS Ulayi standing in defiance of encroaching decay but being enveloped by an expanding forest and a farm.
A museum piece at GSS Ulayi, the school’s only vehicular asset, an all-purpose lorry, rested decades ago at the premises now turned forest.
Grant-aided Edumoga Community Secondary School, Ojigo, Okpokwu LGA.
Another decayed block of building at Edumoga Community Secondary School, Ojigo.
An uninhabitable hall at Govt science and Technical College Zaki Biam, Ukum LGA.
GSS Lessel, Ushongo LGA.
GSS Lessel.
GSS Lessel.
GSS Lessel.GSS Lessel.A borehole donated by Old Students Association of Govt Comprehensive Sec. Sch., Atlo – Ohimini LGA.
This used to be a boys’ hostel block at Govt Comprehensive Sec. Sch., Atlo – Ohimini LGA.
Another crumbling block at Govt Comprehensive Sec. Sch., Atlo.
A dilapidating block of classrooms at Govt Science and Technical College Otukpa, Ogbadibo LGA.
Another classroom at Govt Science and Technical College, Otukpa.
Govt Science Secondary School, Oju, Oju LGA.
The most decent block of buildings at Govt Science Secondary School Oju.
GSS Alu, Ushongo LGA.
A block of staff quarters at GSS Alu.
GSS Gungul, Konshisha LGA.
GSS Gungul.
GSS Gungul.
GSS Gungul.
GSS Gungul.
GSS Ichika Oju LGA.
GSS Ichika, Oju LGA – A decayed staff quarters.
Crumbled ruins of boys hostel at GSS Ichika.
The relics of another crumbled hostel block at GSS Ichika.
GSS Ichika.
GSS Ikpayongo, Gwer-East LGA, forced to close due to communal violence.
Dilapidated and abandoned principal’s residence, GSS Obarike-Ito – Obi LGA.
GSS Obarike-Ito, Obi LGA.
The block housing science labs of GSS Obarike-Ito.
A collapsing roof of the staffroom of GSS Obarike-Ito.
Leke High School Tse-Agberagba, a grant-aided school.
Leke High School Tse-Agberagba.
Leke High School Tse-Agberagba.
Tsar Mbaduku Science and Technical College, Vandeikya.
Tsar Mbaduku Science and Technical College, Vandeikya.
All in GSS Otukpo’s biology lab.
One of GSS Otukpo’s dilapidated hostel blocks.
A flooded and abandoned classroom at Govt College Utonkon, Ado LGA.
