The United Kingdom’s Department
for International Development (DFID), Wednesday blamed northern leaders for
their lack of commitment to the development of primary education in the region.
Dr. Mikhail Ibrahim, the Project
Coordinator of Reading and Numeracy Activity (RANA) which is an imprint of
DFID, made this known at a reading festival organised for primary school pupils
on reading and numeracy activities in Gusau, Zamfara State.
He said: “due to the lack of
commitment of northern leaders and support for basic education, the region has
remained backward in education and this poses challenges for its development.
“It is in view of the need to
redress the ugly trend that RANA initiated a three-year programme for using the
mother tongue as the language of instruction in Primary 1-3 in Zamfara and
Katsina States.”
According to Ibrahim, “the
reading festival was designed for public primary schools with the goal of
improving literacy and numeracy outcomes for learners, especially girls by
developing Hausa language teaching and learning materials, build teacher
capacity, mobilise communities as well as engage local government councils.”
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