By Abdallah el-Kurebe
The Sokoto State Agency for Female Education on Monday distributed nearly 900 school desks to Government Girls Colleges in four Local Government Areas in the state.
Presenting the items to representatives of the schools, Dr Amamatu Yusuf, the Special Adviser to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal on female education, said the desks were provided in collaboration with the NIPEP/World Bank project.
“This project will continue until all our schools are adequately provided with enough desks and chairs for use by pupils and their teachers.’’
According to her, the benefiting local governments are Kebbe, Sokoto North, Sokoto South and Tambuwal while the schools are Government Girls Day Secondary Schools.
A breakdown showed that the school in Kebbe got 200 desks, Government Girls Day Secondary School (GGDSS) Tambuwal, 100 and the one in Tudun Wada, Sokoto South, 150 desks.
Others are Government Girls Day Secondary School, Sanyinna, 125 desks; Government Girls Day Secondary School, Mabera-Mujaya, 150 desks; Government Girls Day Secondary School, Runjin Sambo, 100 desks and Girls Day Secondary School, Mabera-Magaji 50 desks.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the World Bank had in 2016 set aside 500 million dollars as grant to fund basic education in five states in Nigeria for a period of five years.
Mr Olatunde Adekola, the Head, World Bank International Reconstruction and Development team, had in September 2016, explained that the fund was for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).
GPE was established to improve access to quality education at the basic level in Kano, Kaduna, Jigawa, Sokoto and Katsina states.
The World Bank fund was set aside as GPE/Nigerian Partnership for Education Project (NIPEP) to fund education in the five benefiting states.
Meanwhile, the special adviser has said that the agency would organise a special workshop for school managers and members of the state school-based management committees.
She said that the workshop would attract experts from different parts of the globe, who would teach the participants numbering about 200, new techniques in school management.
