Teacher’s arrears and salaries would be paid as at when due.

A special Scholarship programme where beneficiaries would sign bonds with the state to work for the state for five or more years as the case would be instituted. These scholarships would be for professional skills like Medicine, Engineering, Agriculture, Power, ICT, etc and will be awarded to interested students at tertiary levels.

Government shall encourage and support academic contests with handsome prizes. Students having useful and verifiable inventions in science and technology would be identified through idea festivals and supported by government.

We shall upgrade educational facilities and infrastructure to quality and modern standards from the Primary to the tertiary Institutions in Bayelsa. Emphasis would be laid on skills acquisition, ICT and other technical vocations and human capacity development.

We would establish “Tech Villages and ICT Hubs” for the development, exploration, and promotion of the skills of young Bayelsans in Tech, Artificial Intelligence (AI), digital technology, skills development, sports, entertainment, entrepreneurship, SMEs, and agriculture.

This would be done through training, professional mentoring, start-up guidance, grants, soft loans, contests with attractive prizes attached, guaranteed government patronage, etc.

Government will provide free Broadband Internet access in the state to drive the ICT hubs and Villages that will bring the required knowledge revolution required to function in the global economy.

We shall build a University Community/ Village for the Niger Delta University NDU and other state-owned tertiary institutions where there will be modern hostels, lecturers and professors’ quarters, malls and cinemas with 24 hours power to accommodate the teeming students who live off campus.

The State’s Students Loan Scheme will be reviewed to function more effectively and made easily accessible to accommodate more students. We would revive the existing sports Academy and establish more to develop the sports potentials in young Bayelsans and provide them the opportunities that abound in the global sporting sector.