By Hajara Leman
Gombe – The Presidential Committee on North East Initiative (PCNI), said it had spent N800 million on the purchase of instructional materials for distribution to primary and secondary schools in the North East.
Alhaji Tijani Tumsa, Vice Chairman of PCNI stated this while fielding questions from newsmen in Gombe on Tuesday shortly after the Flag-off of the distribution of some instructional materials.
Tumsa said that 6,750 teachers and 67,500 students across the sub-region would benefit from the gesture.
He said the materials would impact positively on the education of children in the sub-region,which had the highest number of out-of-school children in Nigeria.
According to him, stakeholders in education sector in the affected states are expected to identify schools that would benefit from the materials.
He also said that Civil Society Organizations would monitor and evaluate the impact of the intervention.
Receiving the items for Gombe State, Alhaji Isiaku Abdullahi , the Commissoner of Education , said the measure was a welcome development that would impact positively on the education sector in the state.
Abdullahi said that Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo was committed to investing in the sector.
He commended PCNI for the intervention and assured that the items would be utilised for the purpose intended.
In his remarks, Prof. Mohammed Gurama , the chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), said apart from instructional materials, SUBEB had benefited from PCNI in the area of training of teachers.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the occassion featured presentation of paper, titled, “The Role of Instructional Materials on Academic Performance of Students in Schools” by Dr Nasiru Mohammed of the Department of Instructional Technology, School of Education,Federal College of Education (Tech), Gombe. (NAN)
