Reported by: Oahimire Omone Precious | Edited by: Oravbiere Osayomore Promise.
A civic accountability organisation has exposed the harrowing state of Government Junior Secondary School Koroduma in Karu Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, where more than 225 students are forced to learn in a crumbling structure without flooring, doors, windows, or a ceiling, and with a leaking roof and broken walls. Under its “Leaders of Today” project, Tracka, a BudgIT Foundation platform, visited the school and documented conditions that have rendered the facility virtually uninhabitable for learning. The group's findings, shared on social media on Thursday, have ignited fresh outrage over the state of public education in Nasarawa State, where chronic neglect has left thousands of children in environments wholly unconducive to learning.
According to Tracka’s post, the school lacks not only basic infrastructure but also essential learning materials. “No textbooks, no laboratory or laboratory equipment, not enough teachers to even teach them,” the organisation stated. The school, which serves a densely populated community in Karu Local Government Area, is a stark illustration of the infrastructure crisis plaguing Nigeria’s basic education sector. The plight of Koroduma echoes similar cases documented across the state, including a PREMIUM TIMES investigation that revealed that 70 per cent of public primary and secondary schools in Nasarawa are dangerously dilapidated, suffering acute shortages of conducive classrooms, furniture, teachers and other facilities. Experts described the public schools as unsuitable for genuine learning and teaching due to their terrible condition of disrepair.
The organisation’s appeal was directed at Governor Abdullahi Audu Sule, who has served as governor of Nasarawa State since 2019, and the Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board (NSUBEB). The choice of targets highlights the multi-level governance failure that has allowed a public school to decay for years without intervention. Governor Sule’s administration has received accolades for reforms in education, with claims of building and renovating over 3,000 schools and 4,000 classrooms. Yet the school at Koroduma, with its leaking roof and missing doors, appears to have been overlooked in these initiatives. The NSUBEB Chairman, Dr. Kassim Muhammad Kassim, had previously acknowledged the challenges, revealing that on assuming office, he met numerous challenges, including dilapidated infrastructure, inadequate staffing, poor teacher commitment, and the absence of essential learning materials.
The school’s condition is not merely an aesthetic issue; it has direct and devastating consequences for learning outcomes. Without proper roofs, floors, and ceilings, classrooms are exposed to the elements, making it nearly impossible for pupils to concentrate during lessons. The lack of functional doors and windows poses security and health risks, and the absence of learning materials leaves students without the basic tools for education. For the children of Koroduma, the school is not a place of opportunity and growth; it is a daily struggle against an environment that actively works against their learning. The state of Government Junior Secondary School Koroduma mirrors the rot that many public schools across Nasarawa State have become due to long years of government neglect.
Tracka’s appeal, tagged with the hashtag #FixOurSchools, is part of a broader campaign to draw public and official attention to the crisis in Nigeria’s education infrastructure. The organisation has called on the governor’s office, the Nasarawa State Government, and the Federal Ministry of Education to facilitate the immediate construction and equipping of proper classrooms, laboratories, and examination halls. The plea is urgent and unambiguous: the children of Koroduma cannot wait any longer for the roofs over their heads to be fixed. As Tracka’s post made clear, the school has been in this state for years, and each year has only brought further deterioration. The question now is whether the authorities will finally act, or whether the pupils will continue to learn amidst the decay, their futures compromised by a system that has failed them.
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