The platform in X post on Wednesday highlighted the lack of basic amenities in the school, stating that students are forced to sit on the bare floor due to the absence of desks, while teachers have neither chairs nor tables.
A civic technology platform, MonITng, has raised alarm over the appalling state of LEA Nuruddeen Nursery and Primary School Karu (LEA Islamiyya School Karu) in Abuja, calling for urgent intervention from the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, and Senator Ireti Kingibe.
The platform in X post on Wednesday highlighted the lack of basic amenities in the school, stating that students are forced to sit on the bare floor due to the absence of desks, while teachers have neither chairs nor tables.
The institution also lacks proper fencing, whiteboards, and essential learning materials, creating an unconducive environment for education.
"The pupils of LEA Nuruddeen Nursery and Primary School Karu (LEA Islamiyya School Karu) Abuja are learning in unbearable conditions!" MonITng stated in its appeal.
"They sit on the bare floor due to a lack of desks, while teachers have no chairs or tables."
"The school has no proper fencing, no whiteboards, and lacks basic learning materials."
"Old classrooms are falling apart, and an abandoned building project remains unfinished, leaving the children without a safe and conducive learning environment."
The group stressed that education should empower rather than hinder children and called on authorities to address the situation without delay.
"No child should have to learn under such deplorable conditions. We call for urgent intervention to renovate the school, provide essential facilities, and complete the abandoned project."
Meanwhile, SaharaReporters had also exposed a similar situation in a government-owned school cluster in an Abuja community where pupils from Primary 2 to 6 are crammed into a single classroom, highlighting the dire need for improved educational infrastructure.
"I am not in school because I went to the farm. It's not that I prefer farming to school, but I stopped going to school because our school buildings are dilapidated," 10-year-old Shaibu had told SaharaReporters during a visit to Local Education Authority (LEA) Primary School in Pagada 1 community in Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory.
SaharaReporters noticed that many of the pupils in the community also shun school. Some were seen going to farms, while others were seen playing around the village, where over 10,000 people reside.