…Commissions renovated girls’ secondary school
By Mohammed Abubakar Dutse
Governor Umar Namadi of Jigawa state has announced far-reaching reform packages for girl-child education to boost the enrollment and retention of female students across the state.
The governor made the commitment at the two education-related events in the state. First was the handling over and commissioning of the newly renovated girls’ secondary school by one of the leading commercial banks in Malammadori.
The second was the launching and distribution of an estimated
30,000 sets of uniforms for female students across the state at the Girls’ Science Secondary School Jahun by the state government.
Namadi, however challenged female students across the state to reciprocate the government’s gesture to justify the huge resources being committed to the the sector by the state government.
Besides providing free education to the girls from primary school to the university level, the government, he said, is committed to ensuring the retention of the female students across the length and breath of the state.
He noted that, girl-child, having been left behind in terms of school enrolment and retention in the state, the free education for girls child from primary to higher institution was introduced to bridge the gap and also support girls to compete with boys in the struggle for building modern and great Jigawa state.
The state Commissioner for Higher Education, Dr. Isa Chamo enumerated other intervention programmes, especially in the area of girl-child education carried out by the governor since assumption of office in the last one year.
This he said, included, but not limited to the provision of free education but sponsorship of 121 female students to the Near East University in Cyprus to study medicine, provision of scholarship to over 10, 000 girls to study I’m various tertiary institutions across y the country, saying the latest provision of uniforms would go along way in easing the burden off the parents.
Speaking during the handing over of the renovated Government Girls Senior Secondary School Malammadori, one of the oldest boarding Girls’ secondary school in the state, Namadi commended bank management for their kind intervention.
Namadi stated that, his government was committed to ensure every child in the state has access to quality education irrespective of his parental or economic status or geographical location.
“In Jigawa state, we’re going to focus our real attention to girls education and this is deliberate to ensure that we promote and advance the girl child education in the state as a result, everything is free from primary school up to the university level. Not only that, we’ll continue to invest in education,using our lean available resources.
“Therefore our commitment to the girl child education is total and we’ll continue to demonstrate that through the training and re-training of teachers with a view to bringing them upto date with modern methods and also the use of technology.
“In this digital age, no right thing government can afford to joke with training of it’s teaching staff as well as the use of technology because that is where the world is going.”
Namadi then promised to continue collaborating with donor partners, private and public institution, community organizations, civil societies religious leaders and general public in revitalizing the state education sector which is the biggest pillar in making Jigawa state prosperous and Great.
Speaking at the handing over ceremony, the Northwest Regional Manager of the bank, Abubakar Sleiman Gworonyo said, the renovation of the school is part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility, (CSR) project.
“We chose to give our intervention in to education sector particularly girls child education aims at supporting the state government to achieve its desire goals of given access to quality and affordable education from primary to higher institution to all girls child in the state”,
“The work we executed in Government”s Girls Senior Secondary School Malammadori included renovation of 40 class rooms, Kitchen, Dining Hall , 5 block of toilets, 3 Laboratory, Mosque, Library and furniture”, Gworonyo stated
