SSG speaks on youth’s knowledge seeking
YOUTH have been called upon to enhance knowledge seeking in an effort to ensure enlightened and educated society.
Making the call yesterday at a graduation ceremony of students of Abdullahi bin Abbas Lit-Hafizul Quranil Kareem, Sani Mai Nagge, in the metropolitan Kano Secretary to the Kano State Government (SSG), Alhaji Abdulkarim Hassan, maintained that education plays a vital role in bringing positive changes and forms the bedrock for societal development.
The SSG stressed the importance of education and used the forum to enumerate the enormous contribution of the state government towards salvaging the education sector, which he said the current administration has been giving preference to it through allocation of a lion share of the state budget since inception of the current administration in 2003.
According to him, government has embarked upon rehabilitation expansion and construction of secondary, primary and Islamiyya schools in the state, adding that even the Tsangaya schools were not left out.
The SSG who was represented by the permanent secretary, special duties, Alhaji Sani Abba Sumaila, noted that it was as a result of the importance it attached to Tsangaya system of education, that a special adviser on Information Technology was assigned to take care of the system.
Speaking at the occasion, the Emir of Kano, Alhaji (Dr.) Ado Bayero called on parents to enroll their wards into schools and ensure that they attend their lessons regularly through frequent visit to schools.
The emir used the forum to call on all and sundry to ensure hitch-free election coming in April, this year.
The emir then donated the sum of N1 million for the building of permanent site of the school and called on well-to-do persons to contribute generously towards building the school.
Earlier speaking, the principal of the school, Malam Murtala Isa, said that, the school was opened in the year 2000 and started with 2 students, adding that they now have almost eight classrooms with 300 students out of which 28 of them graduated.
A total of N1.7 million was realized on the spot with the highest donation of N200,000 besides donation of the Emirate Council from the chief launcher and a business tycoon in the state, Alhaji Sabi’u Bako.