School Enrollment: Kano Campaign Committee meets His Royal Highness Muhammadu Sanusi II
By Bala Salihu Dawakin kudu
(Northern Bureau Chief)
On October 3rd, 2024
Kano State 2024 School Enrollment Drive Campaign Committee has met with His Royal Highness, the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II over the forthcoming launching of enrollment drive in Kano.
Briefing the Emir at his palace on the program today Wednesday, State
Commissioner of Education Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa disclosed that arrangements had been completed to launch the enrollment drive campaign across the state.
Umar Doguwa maintained that the committee was at the Emir’s palace to seek for his support towards sensitizing the public on the importance of sending their children to schools.
“Your Highness, we are all aware of the positive role you are playing especially in creating public awareness on matters of education development, that is why as committee, we have come to seek for your support towards sensitizing the public on school enrollment drive campaign to commence soon ” said the Commissioner.
Doguwa noted that statistic indicated that Kano had in the recent time recorded 900,000 out of school children, adding that the number has now reduced drastically due to the present administration’s commitment in overhauling the education sector.
He announced that apart from distribution of school furniture and teaching materials to primary and post primary schools, the administration has completed arrangements to distribute school uniforms and other teaching materials expected to be held today.
Umar further called on parents and other stakeholders to rally round this effort and make sure that children in the state are sent to schools.
In his speech, Chief UNICEF field office Kano, Mr. Raha Rihood Mohammed Farahexplained that the launching of the enrollment drive campaign in Kano was aimed at increasing the enrollment of children in schools across the state.
” This year’s campaign is dedicated to accelerating actions to reduce the number of out of school children through sustainable community engagement and locally led solutions.
” In Nigeria, a staggering of 10.5 million children are out of school and about 10%of these children are in Kano State, the highest rate in the world ” he said.
Mr. Raha appealed to parents, local community leaders and community organizations to get engaged in this year’s enrollment drive to ensure massive enrollment of out of school children in Kano State.
His Royal Highness, the Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II assured of the traditional leaders support towards achieving the set objectives.
The Emir who appreciated government effort in declaring state of emergency on education which according to him started yielding positive impacts, called on the government to redouble this effort by ensuring adequate provision of school furniture, renovation of schools and teachers recruitment.
He advocated the use of mother language in teaching students some subjects that need better explanation and understanding as obtained in other developed country like china and Saudi Arabia.
” In this era of technology transformation, it is time to start applying new modern way of teaching to meet the demand of the changes brought about by technology globally.
