Nangere Local Government realizes N22 million to support Education in Yobe

By: Yahaya Wakili, Damaturu

Over #22 Million has been realized at the launching of Yobe State Education Endowment Appeal Fund in Nangere local government area.

Speaking at the occasion, Guest Speaker, Dr Mohammed Musa Lawan said it is good to raise funds in order to complement the government efforts in revitalizing education in the state.

He said the fact that acquiring functional and quality education is the responsibility of every society as it is essential to socio – economic development and is one of the vital indices used in measuring growth.

“The provision of basic education is free and compulsory under the Universal Basic Education Act. Yobe State is under an obligation to provide free basic education to its citizens successive government having over the years applied various strategies to upgrade the education sector.” Dr Lawan said.

According to him, it is rather unfortunate that insurgency had worsened the situation which no doubt necessitated the declaration of the state of emergency on the sector by His Excellency, Hon. Mai Mala Buni upon inauguration of office on May 29th 2019.

Dr Mohammed Musa Lawan revealed that the declaration of the state of emergency led to the convening of the education submit and constitution of the technical commitment to revitalize the sector under the chairmanship, Professor Mala Daura, the Vice Chancellor Yobe State University and the governor been convinced with report of the technical committee constituted the Yobe State Education Council with H.E the governor as chairman to implement the recommendation of the technical committee.

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“One of the major recommendations  was the institution of a Yobe State Education Endowment/Appeal Fund to complement the government efforts towards the recovery of the lost glory in the education sector in general and the Basic and Secondary sub – sectors in particular, adding that the launching of appeal fundraising at local government to support the state level launch towards the launching at the national level.

Nangere local government being a critical stakeholder in Yobe state in all aspects of life has an estimated population of 188,761 people and has a total number of 80 primaries and 3 secondary schools with 37,537 actual head count of basic and secondary school children that are taken care of by 632 audited teachers as at December, 2019.

Dr Musa Lawan revealed that it has a significant proportion of students in tertiary institutions within and outside the state; it has over 600 students in Yobe State University making it the seventh in terms of numbers of students per local government.

“The fund will be utilized to complement the government’s efforts to revitalize the education sector. Pupils/Students Enrollment and Retention, the fund to support the creation of a conducive school atmosphere through provision of incentives that will motivate parents and pupils such as school feeding, clean environment and extracurricular activities.

To address issues of capacity building for teachers, sufficiency in number, improvement in remuneration, effective supervision and evaluation of schools, teachers and facilities. During the 2019 teachers audit, the technical committee to revitalize the education sector reported that Nangere local government has 632 teachers out of which 164 required serious training and retraining among others.

Nangere Local Government realizes N22 million to support Education in Yobe