Nigeria, April 11 -- Ninety per cent of primary schools in the oil-rich Rivers State are dilapidated while 75 per cent lack adequate number of teachers, the State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has said.

Governor Fubara said this in a statement by his chief press secretary, Nelson Chukwudi, on Wednesday, Punch newspaper reported.

Mr Fubara said the state government got wind of the deplorable standard of the schools through a firm, New Global, which indicated interest in partnering with the government to enhance the capacity of teachers in the state.

The governor said he asked the firm to carry out assessment of the schools, when the firm contacted the government and expressed its intention to invest $5 million in providing software and o...