BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto –
Governor Aminu Tambuwal has urged Sokoto State University lecturers to resume academic activities without further delay or loss their salaries from now on.
He said: ”’Lecturers of the Sokoto State University are to resume work if indeed they have the interest of the state and its students at heart. We stopped their salary last month because we have been magnanimous enough by paying them more than five month salary without work””.
The governor stated this on Saturday in his 62 Independence Day anniversary address to the people of Sokoto and Nigerians.
He said his administration has spent over 50 billion naira on schools feeding programme, students examination fees and other human development issues in the last seven years of his administration in Sokoto State.
The governor said his government over the years, have remained consistent in payment of students examination fees for the National Examination Council (NECO), West African Examination Council (WAEC), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and sundry fees.
He added that while the ongoing crisis in Ukraine last, they are making serious commitments with the management of Sokoto scholarship board towards considering options such as taking their state sponsored students to other universities either in Turkey, Egypt or India; or even in Nigeria, where the displaced students will continue with their education.
On his administration’s achievements so far, the Governor said he would like to be remembered not for the many ongoing and accomplished constructions, flyovers, building of schools, but for his contributions to human capital development.
He said that is why he is building a girl-child, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) focused academy in Kasarawa and the Sokoto State University Teaching Hospital; saying that his projection is that the “STEM academy would produce graduates that would be enrolled into the state university of medical sciences in the future; “so that the girl-child can compete favourably with any girl in the world in-terms of education and preparation to face the challenges of life.”
Recalling what was the situation before, Tambuwal said Sokoto had over 800,000 out-of school children before but has dropped to just about 285,000.
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