By Salim Umar Ibrahim, Kano Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has flagged off the distribution of learning materials to schools across the 44 local government areas of the state. The flag-off ceremony was held at the government house on Thursday evening. Materials distributed to the schools includes 120,000 cartons of chalks, 97,532 workbooks, 93,600 exercise books, 199,234 classroom registers, 350,000 reports sheets, 351 lesson observations books and national anthem books.
Governor Yusuf said, “I stand before you today as we take yet another step towards getting the education sector on its foot in Kano State. This is the revival of the unfortunate state of the education sector in Kano State with the deteriorating infrastructure, high number of out-of-school children by the former administration. I Built Kayeri Village with plastic bottles to encourage creativity – Muhammad Shettima commissions Enugu garment and fashion hub “I am happy to say that as the people’s government, we are fully committed to addressing these issues in our commitment to restore the educational system.
We have been working tirelessly to ensure that we transform the educational sector in our dear state.” he said The governor further pointed out that training and retraining of teachers has been part of the government’s priority, while it had also embarked on massive rehabilitation of schools and construction of new blocks of classrooms to ensure a conducive learning environment for boys .
