By Muhammad Ibrahim, Sokoto
State Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education Muhammad Tukur Alkali has announced the approval and S Commencement Of the AGILE Project during Ministerial Scorecard press briefing.
He said N150m was earmarked as the state counter fund while another N50m was for the take-off of the programme.
Another achievement recorded by governor Ahmad Aliyu within the year in education sector was strenghening collaboration through engagements with development partners such as UNICEF,USAID, LEARN To Read, PLAN-International,USAID-State2State project and LEAP Africa towards improving delivery in the state.
Reliably, Alkali also enumerated collaboration with UNICEF Nigeria to introduce Learning Passport Nigeria, Girls Employability and Skill Partnership Program, REACH Project as another achievement of governor Sokoto.
He further asserted that the governor has sponsored the program on Training of Mastet Trainers, Teacher and Facilitators on Early Grade Reading techniques and similarly procured teaching and learning material for both formal and non-formal learning centres in the state.
Another milestone of achievements is collaboration with UBEC to train 145 education Managers and 2,718 teachers amongst other achievements executed by the state government under the leadership of Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto in Education sector.
