Adbullahi said this when he paid a courtesy visit to the management of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, in Abuja, on Wednesday.
He decried the poor state of secondary education, especially in northern Nigeria.
This, he said, compelled him to write a personal letter to the Minister of Education.
Abdullahi said, "I sat with the governor and we were really belly-aching about the state of secondary education and he confessed to me that they forwarded 18,000 students for NECO and WAEC examinations but only 17 got university (admission) qualification."
Earlier, Bauchi State Governor Isa Yuguda said government and the private sector must collaborate to rescue the Nigeria education sector from collapse.
He said the burden of educating an ever increasing population was too much for government alone to bear.
This, he said, was because there were other competing needs which put a strain on government's lean resources.
The governor, who led members of the governing council of the BASU to TETFUND, said their mission was to request that the university be listed among beneficiaries of funds disbursed by the intervention agency.
Yuguda said, "The Bauchi State University is a growing concern and my administration is determined to provide it the basic infrastructure for it to stand on its feet."
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At 13year, they are already engaged into sexual habit, what do you expect of them,
ReplyDeleteHow can secondary school student being taught in their local language and question are set in English, am confuse oooh cos i served in the north, sometime i wonder if they watch TV.
I remember why the western constantly refer to African as black monkey, pls visit the north to really see evidence of black monkey. at this computer age, i wonder in the 40s how it looks like them.
When u talk,u generalised the north. If u have been to the various parts of the north, you wouldn't talk like a southern shallow minder person as u have just sounded.
ReplyDelete17 out of 18,000! That is 1 for 1000 plus. They said boko(western education) is haram (evil), what do you expect?
ReplyDeleteThis is not OUTRAGEOUS,it simply “INRAGEOUS“!!!!!
ReplyDeleteOUR NORTHERN BROTHERS AND SISTERS NEED PRAYER OF DELIVERANCE FROM IGNORANCE. THEIR BIG SHOTS WHO HAVE POWER AND MONEY SEND THEIR CHILDREN TO THE BEST SCHOOLS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND LEAVE THE POOR ONES IN RAMSHACKLE PLACES OR UNDER TREES AND CALL THEM SCHOOLS. LET THE KNOW THAT WAEC AND NECO QUESTIONS ARE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH NOT ARABIC OR HAUSA LANGUAGE. TO PASS THESE EXAMS, ONE MUST STUDY WELL IN ENGLISH.
ReplyDeleteBy the time the remaining corp members and teachers flee,the numer will be one.Shikina.
ReplyDeleteThis is not strange at all. What were their leaders doing when Awolowo was sending his own citizen to school, of course theirs were going to join army. The result is what you are seeing now.They now want to use money that belong to all of us to develop education in the north, what about improving it in the south. Well it is never too late let those state governors spend 45% of their budget on education to build
ReplyDeletewhat will last and enduring rather than constructing roads and mosques that will get decayed within short time like Yuguda is doing in Bauchi.
Dapo Ajiboye.