Buni’s quest to revamp Yobe’s educational sector, by Kasim Isa Muhammad
Since two years after being sworn into office, the Executive Governor of Yobe State, His Excellency, Mai Mala Buni has been untiringly creating, restructuring, and reshaping the education sector of the state, and his projects have taken Yobe to another great level of excellent achievements from the basic to the higher levels. The current administration of Governor Mai Mala Buni has introduced various educational plans, scholarship programs, rehabilitation of school buildings, teachers’ welfare, and other standard implementations.
The Yobe State Governor came up with an astonishing plan to build modern schools around the state. He began with the projects of model primary schools in the areas of Buni Yadi, Damaturu, Geidam, and Potiskum local governments. The schools were built with modern academic standards. Each school has 48 well-furnished classrooms, 12 staff rooms, and a number of computers for E-learning and other facilities as a means of revamping the educational status of Yobe State.
His Excellency, Mai Mala Buni, has also focused on school feeding programs by disbursing billions of naira to support students’ meals, this serves as an aim of encouraging children to be punctual and concentrate more on their studies. On top of that, it also serves as an element to draw the attention of those out-of-school children to getting enrolled in school. The school feeding program has helped thousands of pupils fight malnutrition and drastically reduced the number of out-of-school children in the state, if not totally eliminated.
Similarly, the Governor has carefully looked at the welfare of teachers by ensuring stable payment of their salaries and promoting them based on their dedication. Most of the teachers from the public schools under the current administration of Mai Mala Buni have shared positive reviews on the receipt of adequate welfare, which encourages them to teach the pupils diligently. The Governor’s performance on promotion is another key role in revamping education in Yobe, because every staff member faces equal treatment.
Unquestionably, Buni’s administration went ahead with schools renovation, from basic to higher institutions. The projects which commenced across all the local government areas of Yobe State, has led to reforms in the outlook of the most dreaded buildings, learning facilities, accommodation, and other academic amenities needed to carry out educational programs.
Basic education has benefited from the rebuilding and transformation of school projects and from looking after the well-being of teachers. Most of the schools with old buildings and excessive needs for facilities benefited from the rebuilding projects all over the state. The teaching materials were also provided with enough space in buildings to accommodate thousands of students, for the essence of outgrowing education status in Yobe State.
The idea of reforming schools by the Buni’s administration is to change the system of education in Yobe and to bring about a new development policy of drawing back the minds of young children and their parents to get them enrolled in schools with a good standard of teaching and learning for a better future.
At the higher levels, His Excellency, Mai Mala Buni, has displayed an unbeatable performance in various institutions of the state. He provides new departmental buildings in Yobe State University, construction of laboratory rooms, lecture rooms, and roads in Shehu Sule College of Nursing and Midwifery, Damaturu, and similar projects in higher education fields.
Furthermore, there was a scholarship provided by the governor for 233 indigenous students of Yobe State to Glocal University in India, and hence to other countries such as Russia, England, and others. The scholarship program is to promote the system of education in Yobe State and acquire professional courses for helping people.
In a nutshell, I implore the governor to not relent or dissuade from what he has been firmly doing toward the advancement of the Yobe education sector. It’s our hope and belief that Buni’s educational transformation will surely help the state achieve unprecedented success in building a promising Yobe State.
Kasim Isa Muhammad writes from Damaturu.
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