By: Monday Danladi, Bauchi
A total of 223 Senior Secondary Schools across Bauchi State are to be supplied with essential teaching and learning materials by the State Government.
The aim is to enhance teaching and learning as well as to ensure that the students got the best and impactful education in line with the aspirations of the government.
The materials will be distributed in the Secondary Schools statewide in the first week of resumption in 2025 in order to start early use of the materials.
The State Commissioner for Education, Dr. Jamila Muhammad Dahiru who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Alhaji Ali Babayo Gamawa, announced this during the handover of some educational materials to Zonal Education Directors at the Zonal Education Office in Bauchi on Friday.
The Commissioner explained that the initiative is part of the State Governor, Sen Bala Abdulkadir’s drive to transform education, aiming to equip students with skills for self-reliance.
Items such as solar panels, laboratory equipment, and modern teaching tools are among those being distributed.
To ensure transparency, the Zonal Education Directors will oversee delivery to schools, with a monitoring committee set to track distribution.
The Commissioner reaffirmed the State’s commitment to providing quality education to empower students for the future.
According to her, the gesture portrayed the state government’s readiness and resolve to provide quality education and take the sector to greater heights explaining that the items were procured in order to ensure that students were well trained in their field of choice.
She stressed that “It is the intention of the government to ensure that the education services are provided in an effective and efficient manner so as to produce students that are well versed in their academic activities as well as character.”
According to her “It is also the intention of the government to produce students that will be self-reliant, job creators and a blessing to their community and the country at large with their potential through which they can stand on their own feets.”
She added that, “That is why science and technical education is being given a priority it deserves and not only that, we are trying to ensure that each and everyone of other students running in government secondary schools has a trade to practice in order to earn a living.”
“We want to make sure that the students are productive members of the civic society. We want to groom them in a manner that they can create jobs for themselves as well as for others,” she said.
Jamila Dahiru called on all the teachers and students of the benefiting schools to make judicious use of the items, adding that the ministry will strengthen its inspection directorate to monitor the activities to ensure they comply with best practices.
Also speaking, Hajiya Fatima Garba, Director, School Services, said that the items would be given to all the Zonal Coordinators in the state who would later deliver them to the school Principals under their supervision.
She urged the Zonal Coordinators to distribute the items and not keep them in their offices so as to achieve the aim and objectives of gesture.
Speaking on behalf of the benefiting schools, Rabiu Lawal, the President, All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) in the state, appreciated the state government for the gesture and promised that the items will be well utilised.
The Zonal Education Directors commemded the initiative and assured that the materials will be distributed as directed.
