Turkish construction company builds school for Nigerian children

A scheme by a Turkish construction company in Nigeria is offering hundreds of children the chance of a better education.

Turkish prefabricated housing firm Karmod, with the support of UNICEF, is behind the school-building project in Nigeria's Borno province.

Borno has repeatedly made headlines due to conflict in the northeastern region but now the new education semester has started in mobile schools built by Karmod.

The first phase of the project will see the building of 30 mobile prefabricated classrooms with desks, chairs, cabinets made and sent by Karmod.

In the school each classroom has the capacity for 32 students, enabling 960 children to receive education.

Speaking at an inauguration ceremony of the school, Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said that the mobile schools would help local children receive education in proper conditions.

"I would like to thank everyone who built such a good school for education in a very short time. We would like to spread modular mobile classrooms, which is a good model for education, to the whole region," Osinbajo said.