This space used to be one of the Form 5 classrooms at GSS Ulayi, Ado LGA
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-AgberagbaLeke 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
