The Yobe State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, has launched the distribution of 2, 000 double decker beds and 1, 500 two seater desks to senior secondary schools in the state.
The commissioner of the Ministry, Dr Mohammed Sani Idriss, while launching the distribution in Damaturu said the gesture was part of the present administration’s efforts of making a conducive atmosphere for learning and teaching.
Idriss said since inception, the present administration of Hon Mai Mala Buni has within its limited resources been injecting money into the education sector with the aim of changing the narrative in the sector.
He said the ministry would do everything possible towards ensuring that all policies and programmes of the governor were implemented to that letter for a better future.
“Right now, the ministry has outlined the distribution strategy and as usual I’ve given a directive to that effect.
“May I at this juncture direct principals of all benefiting schools to ensure judicial utilisation of the furniture provided.
“The schools must also ensure proper maintenance as the government will not condone the usual non challenge attitude especially on maintenance culture,” the commissioner disclosed.
He restated the commitment of the present administration towards continued provision of more beds and desks to secondary schools across the state.
Buni’s Intervention To Our College Rises Number Of Graduating Nurses, Midwives – Provost
The provost of the Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery Damaturu, Hajiya Hadiza Sabo said, due to intervention by the administration of Hon Mai Mala Buni, the college was able to graduate 481 nurses and midwives from 2018 to date.
The college had recently for the first time since establishment made a record of graduating 90 students as qualified midwives with one hundred percent success rate.
Sabo who was speaking on the performance of the college said the Buni administration has provided several infrastructures such as road networks, new blocks of classes and hostels among other instructional materials in the college which help them in competing favourably with their counterparts across the country.
“So far so good, from 2018 to date we have produced about 481 nurses and midwives among them 104 basic nurses, 202 midwives and 71 community midwives.
“This community midwives are middle cadre midwives who are train in the college’s two year programme and they are source from the rural community and the mandate on them is to go and manned Primary Healthcare Centers or Comprehensive Health Centers in their wards, that’s at the 178 political wards across Yobe State.
“This was in line with fulfilling the mission of His Excellency of getting trained manpower for the on-going total rehabilitation and upgrading of Primary Healthcare Centers in the State,” the provost explained.
She expressed confidence that with the current approval of two streams of training by the council, the college will meet up the nurses and midwives needs of health facilities across the state.
“We have been given approval of two streams of training where if everything goes well we are going to produce 200 nurses in a year while for midwifery we are going to produce 140 because the accreditation indexing slot is 70.
