By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
The FCT Administration said it has concluded plans to make e students performance and their results more accessible to residents especially parents through its e-education platforms in its schools across the Territory.
Education Secretary, Sani Dahir El-Katuzu disclosed at the FCT Administration’s Executive Committee meeting, held on Monday, chaired by the FCT Minister, malam Muhammad Musa Bello.
El-Katuzu explained that this plan was a part of the Education Secretariat’s presentation to the Executive Committee.
He equally said that when fully operational, students who are unable to attend classes physically, can attend virtually while results could be accessed and students’ performance monitored online amongst other services.
He said, “It is not only making it possible for parents to check the results of their wards online but also making students who may not be physically available in the school due to some challenges to attend lessons from home.”
“We want to operate an
e-education whereby our lesson plans, our scheme of work and our lesson notes are all online so that we can supervise without having to physically visit the schools. These are all things that are in the pipeline. In fact, we have gone into the advanced stage of making these happen. ”
The Education Secretary further said, “The e-attendance and most of these e-provisions we have made are in order to assist students who cannot physically be in school. ”
According to him, the novel measure was prompted by the COVID situation where our schools had to be closed down because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“That is why we created avenues where students can attend lectures from their homes and that prompted the e-attendance, the smart schools and the rest. ”
Meanwhile the Senior Special Assistant on Security to the Minister, Ambassador Abu Salihu Mohammed, described the FCT as the most secured place in the country with security agencies working round the clock to keep it that way.
The aide said although there are some pockets of challenges, especially at the border towns, adequate measures are in place to curtail criminal activities in those areas with the use of joint security patrols amongst other measures.
He said that security agencies are doing their best to make sure that the situation along the fringes where there are pockets of kidnapping cases are resolved.
“We are also making efforts to conduct joint operations under the aegis of the G-7 alliance to tackle the situation along the fringes of the FCT”.
He urged residents to remain calm, be security conscious and report any suspicious person or activities to security agencies immediately.
