With quality education, world’s top problems will be solved – Gov. Bello assures
….Kogi is getting it right – Education stakeholders
Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello has opined that with quality education which is the only recommended solution for ignorance, other top world’s problems including poverty and diseases would be addressed.
The governor added that Kogi State under his administration had resolved to tackle the menace of ignorance by investing in education not just through prioritizing the sector on the New Direction’s thematic blueprint but backing it up with infrastructures that meet global standards.
Governor Bello made this known on Thursday while declaring open a Mandatory Continuing Professional Training workshop organized by the North Central All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) at the Muhammadu Buhari Civic Centre, Lokoja.
Represented by his Deputy, Chief Edward Onoja, the governor asserted that the state government was not only building, refurbishing and renovating education infrastructures, but to global standards while facilities and teaching aides would meet contemporary technological advancement.
He noted that both infrastructures and facilities would be incomplete if those that would deliver the teaching services and principals were not well catered for, hence the state government has focused on staff training and welfare of teachers.
Gov. Bello referenced the already completed GYB model college in Adankolo and other ongoing replications in other senatorial districts of the state as flagship foundations of what education facilities would be in Kogi and should be in the entire nation.
While encouraging the secondary school Principals from different part of the North Central zone to visit the GYB model secondary school within the state capital, he noted that at the sight of the edifice and outlook of the facilities, they would agree that with such being the template of educational institutions, the nation was on its way to taking its place as the giant of Africa.
The governor stated that despite being faced with economic hardship, the state government in the tertiary education sector has championed the commencement of a world class institution, Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara.
He noted that his administration would continue to build on these educational mileages in a bid to ensure that government after would also give keen attention to the education sector thereby putting an end to ignorance, poverty and diseases.
In his goodwill message, commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Hon. Wemi Jones pointed out that governor Bello has surpassed the UNESCO recommended percentage budgetary allocation for education with the sector currently enjoying a 30% earmarked allocation from the state’s budget.
While revealing that the leadership of Governor Bello has ensured professionalism in the teaching profession he stressed that the government was in the process of employing over 4,000 quality teachers to add to the existing man power.
Delivering his address, Zonal Chairman of the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Mr. Ogiri Christopher while reeling out the numerous achievements of the GYB led administration in the education noted that government’s investment in the sector cutting across policy, infrastructures, facilities and human power were truly laudable.
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