From Auwal Salim
In an efforts toward promoting the pupils Enrolment as well as providing Quality Education at the Basic levels, the Yobe State in conjunction with the UNICEF embarked on procurement and distribution of quality and relevant of Teaching and Learning Materials across the 17 Local Government areas of the state.
Recall that His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Yobe State, Hon. Mai Mala Buni had during his first inauguration declared State Of Emergency on the Basic and Secondary Education.
His giant stride necessitated the constituting a committee under the able Chairmanship of the Vice Chancellor, Yobe State University in the person of Professor, Mala Daura.
The mandate giving to the committee was to among other things go round all the nooks and crannies of the state and established the problems that is taking the state backward Educationally and proper series of actions to be taking for positive change in sector.
The Committee succeeded in carrying out the mandate assignment to it as expected.
Recently, the State Government in partnership with the UNICEF distributed over 1 billion items which include 56,000 Cartons of Branded School Bags (UNICEF), 5,600 Cartons of Pencil HB, 5,600 Cartons of Ball Point Pen, 5,600 Cartons of Exercise Book A, 4,800 Cartons of Plastic Ruler, 5,600 Cartons of Exercise Books 2A & 2C, 5,000 Dozens of Exercise Book 2C, 1,000 Cartons of Chalks Different Colours, 8,000 Pieces of White Board, 500 and Pieces of Marker.
Others are 1,600 Pieces of White Board Cleaner, 500 Cartons of Black Board Duster, 1000 Pieces of Slate, 800 Dozens of Pencils, 1000 Pieces of Class Register, 73,000 Pieces of School Bag, 10,200 Mats, 1145 Tablets, 300 Cartons of Mukaranta (Textbooks), 200 Cartons of Lissafi (Textbooks), 2600 Attendance Register, 2600 Centre File, 2600 Visitors Book, 330,000 Certificates, 340,000 Supplementary Reading Books as well as 130,000 Enrolment Forms.
While at the Local Government Level, on Wednesday, the 21 of February 2024 the Ag. Education Secretary Nguru LGEA Mallam Hamisu Ado launched the distribution of the allocated Teaching and Learning Material giving to the Nguru LGEA, the occasion attracted all the Critical Stakeholders including the PTA, SBMC, NUT and of course the representative of UNICEF Mallam Garba Umar who was visibly present during the occasion.
Addressing the mammoth crowd while Launching the distribution, Mallam Hamisu Ado urged the parents to continue supporting Government Policies tailored toward reducing the menace constituted by the out of school children in the locality.
Ado said, Government is doing all it could to improve the Learning Outcome of the team School Children while parents and Guardians are also expected to complement such efforts.
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