Nigeria, May 27 -- Few days to the end of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration, the Nigerian government has presented ambulances to 18 of the country's more than 100 federal government colleges, otherwise known as unity schools.

The Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Opiah, made the presentation at the Federal Government Boys College, Apo, Abuja, on Friday.

He also presented two buses to the two schools without buses.

Mr Opiah said this is the first set of purchases in the government's plans for all 104 unity colleges to have an ambulance.

"We would be procuring another set of 15 ambulances from the 2023 appropriation and these would be distributed on the basis of distance to urban centres, difficulty in accessing ...