Douala: Secondary education minister evaluates school infrastructures, projects.

The ministerial delegation was accompanied in their field mission by the regional administrators including the Governor of the Littoral Region, Samuel Dieudonné Ivaha Diboua; the Regional Delegate for National Security, Raymond Essogo; Regional Delegate for Secondary Education, Thama Eboa, amongst others.

The convoy, throughout the visit, took Minister Nalova Lyonga and her delegation across three secondary schools in Douala, where some infrastructures had been carried out and the site of the land which had been reserved for the construction of an agricultural institution in Dibamba.

At Dibamba, located at the east entrance to Douala, where the Minister made her first stop, she was received by the Douala III council-led topography experts, who made Minister Nalova Lyonga to appreciate the width, length and the nature of the 1000 M² terrain.

The school, it was said, shall have the capacity to train 500 students yearly. To this number, 300 shall be male while 200 shall be female.

The Minister, in her observation, said architects should incorporate boarding facilities to the school.

"Given that this will be out of town, it is good for there to be a boarding facility, so that students who come here can stay here during school period. We want to have them go through the security challenges they may face while leaving to and from school," the minister said.

While visiting the fruit transformation incubator at the Government Technical High School, Bassa, she was pleased with the practical knowledge teachers have transferred to students in industrial chemistry in transforming pineapples to three varieties fruit juice for commercial purposes.

The incubator's coordinator, Ngamo Matacoka, said it was constructed to enable students gain a skill from which they could be self-employed.

"We receive students here who are to become industrial chemists, we teach them the transformation processes of natural beverages up to the level of commercialisation, the juice have been approved by experts of research centres. Our aim is that when a student leaves from here, they can be able to have their incubators, create employment or become self-employed," she said.

It should be noted that government the technical high school in Bassa is one of the oldest and most famous technical colleges in the Littoral region. It has maintained a standard of producing some of the brightest minds in a litany of technical fields in Cameroon.

Departing from there, the Ministerial delegation, took their field inspection to the Government Bilingual High School in New Bell and that of Sodiko, Bonaberi where the minister ended her field mission to Douala.