The Sokoto State Government has built 50 new secondary schools according to the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Dr Jabbi Kilgori.
Highlights:
- It was based on demands by their respective host communities.
- Kilgori told newsmen on Sunday in Gudu that government’s partnership with communities on education had continued to yield positive results on the sector.
- The Commissioner said that much success had been recorded in the education sector since government declared a state-of-emergency on it, and particularly commended Governor Aminu Tambuwal’s political will that had ensured prompt responses to educational issues.
- He said that 2,000 teachers had been recruited in addition to massive rehabilitation of infrastructures, provision of text and exercise books, furniture, enhanced feeding and the equipping of laboratories.
- Kilgori said that consultative committees had stimulated enrollment competition among communities by instituting an annual award for high enrollments among local governments.
- According to him, the local government with the highest enrollment was entitled to N1 million, while the second and third receive N600,000 and N300,000 respectively.
- The commissioner said that 488 Qur’anic schools would be integrated into modern system of education under integration enrollment plan this year, adding that two schools would be captured in each of the 244 political wards.
