Musa Na Allah Sokoto
Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State on Thursday flagged off school enrolment drive for 2024/2025 in Dange/Shuni local government.
He said the enrolment drive was a clear testimony of his administration’s commitment to making sure that school-age children in the state were enrolled in public schools.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, it may interest you to know that the enrolment drive campaign is one of the major strategies taken by the state government.
“We identify Out-of-School Children including those who have never been enrolled and those who have dropped out for re-admission and enrolment.
“Involve Community Religious leaders and development partners in mobilizing and making our schools more child-friendly by providing life skills materials to make Education more relevant and attractive.”
“Under review, we have collaborated with the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) in establishing three (3) new skills-based Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) one in each of the state’s Senatorial Districts.”
He said the schools are located in Sifawa, Wamakko, and Wurno, which were officially commissioned in May 2024 by the then State Minister of Education, Dr. Yusuf Tanko Sununu.
“We have also paid One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N150,000,000.00) as State counterpart fund and Fifty Million Naira (N50,000,000.00) for the take-off of the Agile program in the state.
“Our Government also constructed 147 classrooms, and renovated 142, provided 208 VIP toilets, school fencing and boreholes among others, to provide a conducive environment for learning”
“We have provided ample opportunity for the training of our teachers with a view to enhance their knowledge and performance training and retraining of teachers had been conducted in all the 23 LGEA in the state.
“We have also procured and distributed 9,852 sets of furniture for both pupils and teachers In addition to provision of other basic school needs.
“We have re-introduced and improved School Feeding covering 23 Boarding Schools with a population of 17,367 Students, at N680,786,400.00 annually.
“We Provided Sporting facilities across all the public schools in the State.
“We ensure prompt Payment of external examination fees for final year students irrespective of their state of origin.
“My administration also ensures free feeding for all Boarding students in the secondary schools and three (3) Boarding primary schools
“We have recruited 2,000 teachers and deployed them to teach at Secondary and Nomadic Schools across the state;
“We have introduced a monthly imprest of N200,000 to all secondary schools for minor repairs and maintenance of basic facilities in the school.
“Distinguished audience, we have recently awarded contracts for the total renovation and remodeling of some Secondary and Primary Schools in the state.”
Some of the schools according to the governor are, Command Military Schools located in Giginya Barracks and Shagari local government, Government Science Secondary School Yabo, Nagarta
College, and Sultan Abubakar College Sokoto, Government Girls Secondary School Bodinga, GGSS Illela, Sheik Abubakar Gummi Memorial College, Hafsatu Ahmadu Bello Secondary School, Ahmadu Bello Academy, Sani Dingyadi Unity Secondary School, Sokoto Teachers College among others. We have equally renovated Marafa Dan Baba and Tudun Wada Model Primary Schools.
“Let me at this juncture, reiterate my administration’s determination to make education better than we met it.
“I therefore want to appeal to parents and Guardians in the state to support this administration by ensuring that their wards attend schools regularly. To achieve an educated society, all hands must be on deck.
“Similarly, I want to call on all the Schools-Based Management Committees and our community, Traditional, and Religious leaders, to assist in protecting school infrastructures from vandalization”.
“We need to understand that it is the taxpayer’s money that is being used to establish the structures,” the Governor said.
