Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele has renovated Government Science College in Iyin-Ekiti, Ekiti State, in a undertaking reportedly valued at greater than N200 million, changing growing old school rooms and amenities with a studying atmosphere constructed to final past one political season.
The undertaking is the newest dot in a legislative report constructed round the identical theme. Since turning into Senate Leader in July 2023, Bamidele has directed the passage or modification of over 108 payments, together with the Student Loan Act of 2024, which opened funding for greater than 500,000 college students via NELFUND.
He additionally secured federal funding to determine the Federal University of Technology and Environmental Sciences in Iyin-Ekiti, giving his personal neighborhood a tertiary establishment it didn’t beforehand have.
Beyond the college constructing itself, Bamidele offered buses for the school and for the Federation of Iyin-Ekiti Students and Indigenes, addressing a transport hole that always decides whether or not college students really make it to class. But his constituency report extends nicely previous schooling.
Over 50 roads, 12 mini-stadiums, and 1000’s of photo voltaic streetlights have reached his district, alongside ICU amenities at 5 hospitals and new ambulances donated to well being centres throughout Ekiti State.
That sample traces again to Lagos, the place Bamidele served as Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development beneath Bola Tinubu, then as Commissioner for Information and Strategy beneath Babatunde Fashola, each roles constructed round seen, delivered initiatives.
The man’s political roots return additional nonetheless. As National President of the National Association of Nigerian Students in 1989, Bamidele was arrested repeatedly throughout Nigeria’s pro-democracy battle, a historical past that earned him the nationwide honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger in 2022.
A renovated science school is not going to keep in the information for lengthy. But for the college students strolling via its gates every morning, the distinction is speedy, and it’ll nonetheless be there lengthy after the story has moved on.
