Nigerians Advocate The Use Of Local Languages In Education System.

Nigerians have advocated for the adoption of major local languages in the country as official languages for teaching and learning  to ensure proper assimilation of subjects by students.

The participants at a one day seminar on Skills Building, Career Mentoring and Development for students in Government Secondary School in Nigeria agreed that solving language barrier in learning process would go along way to improve standard of education and enhance value orientation.

Mr Obasi Sunday, one of the participants at the seminar organised by the Skills Outside School Foundation in Abuja said in an interview that use of local languages in teaching and learning by countries like China, India, etc facilitated their advancement socially and technologically.

According to him, “If Nigeria continues in the light of what we are doing today we are not going to see the light of the day interms of advancement.”

The Programme Manager of SOS, Bar. Ann Eze, noted that several factors contributed to the poor standard of education in the country.

She maintained that every child in Nigeria is talented, disagreeing with the submission by some quarters that Nigerian graduates are not employable.

Ann, who explained that the workshop was to equip growing up students with requsite knowledge needed to assist them in choosing their long-lasting career, disclosed that the fundation would still give scholarship to disadvantaged bright students (Punch)

Authorities Hoard Furniture In Sokoto School Where Students Sits On Bare Floor.

When will we take education seriously  in this country, it is so disheartened to hear this.  Will they even eat the chairs or what?.  

 The Sokoto State Committee on the Implementation of State of Emergency in Education, has discovered 200 sets of furniture locked up at a school where students sit on bare floor for lessons.

A statement issued by Imam Imam, spokesman to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal, said the discovery was made during an assessment visit to Hafsat Ahmadu Bello Memorial Secondary School, Sokoto.

It said: “Only a few classes in the school have enough seats to accommodate them. For long, they have to put up with taking lectures while seated on bare floor.

“Most use prayer mats to protect their white tops from the floor’s dust, while others come to classes with extra wrappers to spread on the floor.

“While they have to put up with the most uncomfortable situation to take lectures daily, a few blocks away, 200 sets of classroom furniture were locked away, unattended to, and left to rot.”

It said that the suffering of the students came to an end last week when the committee went to assess the facilities and make recommendations to remedy identified problems.

The statement added that the team leader, Dr. Shadi Sabeh, immediately ordered that the furniture be arranged in the classrooms, and admonished the school management to always prioritise the need of the students. (NAN)