Facilities in various schools across Enugu State are in deplorable state despite government interventions in basic education. ABDUSSALAM AMOO visited such schools spread across the state in September. Excerpts of his report are presented below. Whenever rain falls at the Central School, Imezi Owa, learning halts. Pupils are led into the few available classrooms in better shape within the school for shelter. On a normal day, only three classrooms are in relativelygood shape to cater for the eight classes in the primary school with over 100pupils. Headmistress of the school in Ezeagu Local GovernmentArea of Enugu, Mrs Roseline Jideofor told this reporter that the school hadmanaged the available facilities like that for a while. Documents from the Enugu State Universal Basic EducationBoard (ENSUBEB) show that N3.17 million was allocated to the renovation of theschool building under the 2014 UBE intervention projects. This was neverimplemented. This reporter observed that two to three classes share aclassroom because the roofs of other available rooms had caved in. The United Nations Educational Scientific and CulturalOrganisation (UNESCO) identified poor schooling conditions as an impediment toaccessing a quality education. Globally, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics described the disparities in the availability of facilities at the basic education level as a global learning crisis affecting over 617 million adolescents and adults. Among parameters it used in establishing these are theavailability of electricity, internet, computers, adapted infrastructure andmaterials for students with disabilities, clean drinking water, single-sextoilets, and basic hand washing facilities. But the situation at the Imezi-Owa school and many othersvisited in Enugu State appear much deplorable in these regards. The Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act of 2004 mandates government to provide enabling conditions for accessible learning for all. Enugu is one of such states that did not access its UBE intervention funds for about four years as at October 2018. It only began doing so much later with the implementation of 2014 and 2015 UBE intervention projects late 2018. Data from the Federal Ministry of Education made available to EduCeleb.com shows that up 30 percent of basic education schools across Enugu State are in bad condition. That is higher than the national average of 25 percent. Specifically, 2,056 pre-primary schools in Enugu State are in bad condition just as 4,205 of the primary schools as well as 915 of the Junior Secondary Schools are. Some 28 kilometres away from Imezi-Owa is the Community SecondarySchool, Umana Ndiagu in Eze Agu Local Government where a not so different taleof neglect lies. Whereas, the government proposed to renovate three blocksof dilapidated classrooms in the school, it has put only one in good shape. The remaining classroom blocks in the school remainunconducive as at the time EduCeleb.comvisited there. With almost open roofing, cracked walls, absent windowsand some collapsed classrooms, students would have to take cover whenever theweather changes. School Principal, Mrs Cordelia Nwajuani said thecontractors who showed up to continue work on a section of the school a weekendbefore the visit only attempted patching a weak broken wall rather thanreconstructing it with pillars. In the event of rainfall, the headmaster at Community PrimarySchool, Ekoyi Iheaka, Mr Samuel Ugwuja said “the noise alone will not makeyou hear word. The children would shift to the middle of the class.” A classroom block in the school, which remainsdilapidated would pass off worse than a poultry farm. An ongoing classroom block construction in the school is nearing completion but the contractor, according to Mr Ugwuja, had not shown up in over two weeks before the visit. For teachers at the Community High School, Umumba Ndiaguin Igbo Etiti Local Government Area, they have their staffroom under trees asthey have had to sacrifice the few available spaces in the school for studentsto learn. The roof of a block of classroom had caved in for morethan three years and calls to government to commission repairs remainedunanswered. The principal of the school, Mr Reuben Omeh told EduCeleb.com that he shares his officewith students in JSS3. At the Central School, Ugwoba in Oji River LocalGovernment, a collapsed classroom block lies there for almost four yearsdespite funds allocated for its renovation. Officials of ENSUBEB initiallyclaimed that the project had been executed until when confronted with picturesof the school that showed them otherwise.