Sokoto State Chairman of the Technical
Committee on State of Emergency on Education, Prof Riskuwa Arabu Shehu,
has identified lack of quality education as a factor responsible for
many of the challenges the country is facing.
“It affects every critical aspect of our lives,” Shehu said.
Lamenting the poor state of education in the Northern region, Shehu attributed the challenge to negligence, lack of planning and disunity.
He noted that the only driving force to reposition the system is ensuring collective efforts towards quality teaching, conducive environment and provision of infrastructure to reposition the sector.
“We have a situation whereby over 100 students/pupils are in a class, and where more than 50 per cent of structures are dilapidated. This is in addition to about 60 per cent unqualified teachers,” he lamented.
“If education must be successful, we must stop politicising it for selfish purpose”, he warned.
Shehu said there was no justification for the cries, adding that all Nigerians are culpable and should therefore take responsibility for the decline.
He continued: “We have no excuse than to take corrective steps to save the future of our children’s education.’’
Citing Imo State as a reference. Shehu said: “Imo State alone has been getting more qualified candidates for admission into universities, whose numbers cannot be produced by five states in the north put together.”
“We don’t expect miracle to happen overnight; but we need to make serious efforts to redeem the good foundation and legacies of our forefathers,” added Shehu, who is the former vice chancellor of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.
He said the training, which would be carried out on 75 enumerators/supervisors consisting of professionals, lecturers and representatives of agencies in the state civil service, would highlight how best and reliable to get comprehensive data that would capture basics such as staffing and other elements without assumption.
“We are confident of the integrity of those to conduct the survey exercise,”he assured.
Earlier, the Special Adviser to Governor Tambuwal on Media and Publicity, Malam Imam Imam who spoke on the ‘Role of Media to the Success of the Exercise,’ noted that the media remained the driving force that stimulate government policies and programmes for development.
Source:The Nation
“It affects every critical aspect of our lives,” Shehu said.
Lamenting the poor state of education in the Northern region, Shehu attributed the challenge to negligence, lack of planning and disunity.
He noted that the only driving force to reposition the system is ensuring collective efforts towards quality teaching, conducive environment and provision of infrastructure to reposition the sector.
“We have a situation whereby over 100 students/pupils are in a class, and where more than 50 per cent of structures are dilapidated. This is in addition to about 60 per cent unqualified teachers,” he lamented.
“If education must be successful, we must stop politicising it for selfish purpose”, he warned.
Shehu said there was no justification for the cries, adding that all Nigerians are culpable and should therefore take responsibility for the decline.
He continued: “We have no excuse than to take corrective steps to save the future of our children’s education.’’
Citing Imo State as a reference. Shehu said: “Imo State alone has been getting more qualified candidates for admission into universities, whose numbers cannot be produced by five states in the north put together.”
“We don’t expect miracle to happen overnight; but we need to make serious efforts to redeem the good foundation and legacies of our forefathers,” added Shehu, who is the former vice chancellor of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.
He said the training, which would be carried out on 75 enumerators/supervisors consisting of professionals, lecturers and representatives of agencies in the state civil service, would highlight how best and reliable to get comprehensive data that would capture basics such as staffing and other elements without assumption.
“We are confident of the integrity of those to conduct the survey exercise,”he assured.
Earlier, the Special Adviser to Governor Tambuwal on Media and Publicity, Malam Imam Imam who spoke on the ‘Role of Media to the Success of the Exercise,’ noted that the media remained the driving force that stimulate government policies and programmes for development.
Source:The Nation
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