Bauchi Gov’t Seeks Journalists’ Support For Girls Educational Growth

The Bauchi State Government has renewed called on the media in the state to support its commitment towards revamping the girls education system across the state.

The state’s Commissioner of Education, Dr. Jamila Mohammed Dahiru made the call during a Bi-Annual Media-Round Table Meeting, organised by Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) held in Bauchi on Sunday.

Dahiru who also is the chairperson of the project, indicated the state government’s interest to continually provide an enabling ground for girl child education down to the rural communities.

Represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Alhaji Aliyu Gamawa, the commissioner pledged to ensure effective teaching and learning across the public schools in the state to produce an egalitarian society.

In his remarks, the state Project Coordinator of AGILE, Alhaji Ali Sule Gar, said the project components in the state have adopted a comprehensive approach towards achieving significant milestones in improving the girls’ education.

He explained that the AGILE programme has already identified some public schools to ensure effective transmission of adolescent girls initiative for learning project to the people at the grassroots.

Also speaking, the AGILE’s Communication Officer in the state, Halima Dimis, remarked that the objective of the meeting was to harvest the ideas of promoting adolescent girl child education in the state.

Dimis described girls’ child education as a catalyst to national development and explained that AGILE in the state has deemed it necessary to engage the services of members of the pen profession as partners in progress, to achieve its goals.

Speaking on the role of media in promoting adolescent girl child education, the Head of Corporate Affairs Unit of the Bauchi Radio Corporation, Alhaji Umar Shira, described the AGILE project as a welcome development in addressing the challenges encountered in the girl education system.

He enjoined media professionals as stakeholders to avoid sensational, blackmail, bias and selective reportage, and ensure fair editorial judgement in their outlet services by covering the salient critical issues concerning the AGILE activities to the people.

Shira, promised the social role of the media in amplifying the services of the initiative for learning and empowerment for the development of girl child.