Story Written By Khadijat Aliyu, Edited by Godwin Duru
Kano State Ministry of Education has conducted a media tour to build stronger working relationships with media organizations throughout the state.
The State Commissioner of Education, Alhaji Umar Haruna Doguwa, along with some ministry staff, visited the management of several media stations to discuss issues related to educational development and seek their support in addressing education-related challenges in Kano.
During the visit at Radio Kano, Nasara Radio and Freedom Radio, Umar Doguwa revealed that the stage at which the present administration of Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf found the education sector required urgent collaborative commitment with individuals, government and non-governmental organizations to address the educational challenges inherited.
Doguwa said the new government policy of declaring state of emergency on education is one of the measure put in place by the administration to fully revitalize the sector.
The Commissioner further disclosed that government had recently conducted Kano International Conference on Education during which stakeholders were converged and deliberated on the problems of education and the way forward.
Doguwa added that lots of programmes and projects are currently being designed by the administration to uplift standard of education in the state, including renovation and construction of schools, provision of instructional, materials, upgrading of schools feeding programme and teachers training among others.
He therefore tasked media practitioners across the state to offer their contributions by providing the needed publicity to the new government policies and programmes on education for the benefit of teeming populace, stressing that the tour is designed to cover all the media outlets in the state.
“ We are going to come up with monthly press briefing and during this briefing, all the heads of our parastatals will be in attendance to tell the public on the achievements recorded in their offices and journalists will be free to ask or demand clarification on any issue being raised.”
He stressed that radio stations being one of the common and most patronized channel of communication especially by people in the rural areas, have crucial roles to play towards solving the challenges of the education sector.
In their separate remarks, the Managing Director Radio Kano Comrade Abubakar Adamu Rano, the General Manager Nasara Radio Comrade Isma’la Ammai Mai Zare and the Station Manager of Freedom Radio Ado Sa’idu Warawa pledged to give their maximum support of enlightening the public on programmes meant to improve quality of education in the state.
They specifically appreciated the new government policy of declaring state of emergency on education which according to them, demands the support and cooperation of every one to ensure success of the programme.
The Station Manager Freedom Radio Ado Sa’idu Warawa noted that the recent allocation of 29.97% of this year’s budget to the education sector signified how serious the government became to fix problems of education in Kano.
KHADIJAH ALIYU
