Sokoto Launches Enrolment Campaign For School-age Children

Sokoto State government has flagged off the 2024/2025 enrolment drive campaign aimed at all school-age children to enrol in public schools.

At the flagging off ceremony held at Army Children Model Primary School, Kwannawa, in Dange Shuni local government area, Governor Ahmed Aliyu maintained that the enrolment drive campaign is one of the major strategies taken by the state government in an effort to identify out-of-school children including those who have never been enrolled and those who have dropped out for re-admission and enrolment.

Highlighting his administration’s achievements in the education sector, the governor said, “last year, the state government in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Education established three new skills-based Junior Secondary Schools (JSS), one in each of the state’s senatorial districts, and were officially commissioned in May 2024 by the then minister of state, Education, Dr Yusuf Tanko Sununu.

“We have also paid N150,000,000 as a state counterpart fund and N50,000,000 for the take-off of the AGILE programme in the state and as well, constructed 147 classrooms, and renovated 142, providing 208 VIP toilets, school fencing and boreholes among others, so as to provide a conducive environment for learning.

“Training and retraining of teachers had been conducted in all the 23 LGEAs in the state in order to enhance their knowledge and performance. We have also procured and distributed 9,852 sets of furniture for both pupils and teachers in addition to the provision of other basic school needs.

“This is in addition to re-introduced and improved School Feeding covering 23 Boarding Schools with a population of 17,367 students, costing N680,786,400 annually. This feeding arrangement also include three boarding primary schools.

“2,000 teachers have been employed and deployed to teach at Secondary and Nomadic Schools across the state. We have introduced a monthly imprest of N200,000 to all secondary schools for minor repairs and maintenance of basic facilities in the school.

“We have recently awarded contracts for the total renovation and remodeling of some secondary and primary schools in the state.”

While reiterating his administration’s determination to make education better than he met it, Governor Aliyu appealed to parents and guardians in the state to support his administration by ensuring that their wards attend schools regularly.