(Nigeria) 3 new special schools "due to the massive increase in students’ enrolment"

Dec 14, 2025, Nigerian Tribune: Ekiti special schools get N28m facility upgrade from Oyebanji’s birthday donations

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FIVE special schools in Ekiti State are now wearing new looks with ultramodern facilities which were procured from donations made to them in commemoration of Governor Biodun Oyebanji’s birthday in the last three years.

Governor Oyebanji had commenced the act of celebrating his birthday with students with disabilities in the three schools since 2022 when he assumed office, sustaining the gesture on December 21st of every year.

Governor Oyebanji has always instructed his friends, political associates and groups not to place newspaper advertisement on his birthday, urging them instead to convert the money for such adverts into donations to the special schools in the state.

Three years down the line, the special schools now have better facilities courtesy of the donations by the governor and his friends and associates.

According to a report on the governor’s donations to the schools and centres for last year, the benefiting special schools are Government Special School for Children with Intellectual and Physical Disabilities, Ido- Ekiti, which got total cash donation of N5.4 million; Government Special School for the Blind, Ikere Ekiti which was boosted with total cash of N7.8 million; and Government Special School for the Deaf, Ikoro-Ekiti which got a total cash donation of N7 million. . . .

At Government Special School for Children with Intellectual and Physical Disabilities, Ido Ekiti, 50 new iron beds were provided due to the massive increase in students’ enrolment. . . .

Princess Agboola noted that the special schools have benefitted immensely from the donations received from the governor and his admirers who were acting under his instructions to donate to the schools, noting that the gesture has boosted facilities in the schools.

Princess Agboola said in the report: “Every year, you have magnanimously encouraged your family, friends and political associates to donate to the Special Schools and Centers instead of giving you birthday gifts. This generous gesture has greatly supported the development of these facilities and fostered a sense of inclusion among the children in our society.

“On behalf of the three special schools and two centers, we express our heartfelt gratitude and pray for God’s blessings upon you and your households. I am pleased to share how each facility utilised the 2024 birthday donations. . . .