CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The earliest schools to be established in Nigeria were built by the missionaries and traders. The school building then, was quite accommodative because the people then that were interested in education were very few. And the schools then were built around the supreme being which is and most of the schools as at then we are administered by the missions until 1976 when the government took over the administration of the secondary schools. These school were managed, staffed and equipped by the missions and private agencies. Since the state government took over the control of secondary schools and with the geometric increase in population there has been the need to build more secondary schools in many areas and the existing ones becomes overcrowded, because the people have also seen thje need to be educated. When they saw that the aim has been changed to make one a useful citizen, there came massive enrolment for the common entrance examination and the schools faced the problem of accommodating the increasing number of students.
There are eleven secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area. About half of these are established by the missionaries such as the Roman Catholic Mission and CMS (Church Missionary Society). Today the schools are overcrowded, and accommodation becomes a problem.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
This study is concerned primarily with examining the problem of accommodation in secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of in Edo State. In our schools system, the problem of accommodation persists, the problem of accommodation include; inadequate classroom, lack of stores and laboratory facilities, absence of staff quarters and lack of stores and laboratory facilities, absence of staff quarters and lack of accommodation for a clinic. The main tasks of the study is to find out the problem of accommodation in selected secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State and how this problem can be solved.
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of this project is to draw the people and the governments attention to the problem of accommodation in the selected secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. It is proper solutions or recommendations for overcoming this problem in our schools in order to pave way for improvement.