Governors of the All Progressives Congress, APC controlled states, yesterday resolved to help Borno State rebuild its destroyed schools, especially in Chibok where over 200 girls were abducted by the dread Boko Haram sect.
The decision was taken at an education summit held by the governors in Kano yesterday.
Chairman of the Progressives Governors’ Forum and Imo State Governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, said the governors would raise N100million to assist the Borno State governor to put the schools back in shape and redeem the education sector in its member-states.
In his presentation, Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, lamented the insecurity in the country which resulted in the kidnapping of the Chibok schoolgirls and charged his colleagues to act fast.
His Kano State counterpart, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, said that in realisation of the importance of youths, the state government had put in place institutes in almost all the local governments where skills and trades are taught to curb unemployment in the state.
In his paper, entitled: “Crisis in Nigerian Education Sector,” Dr. Ahmad Ilyasu said only 25 percent of Nigerians benefit from tertiary education in the science and technology sub-sector which does not prepare them with the required training to earn a better living.
Dr. Ilyasu further identified the education offered in the country as authoritarian in its structure and character by the process of diachronic re-enforcement. As a result, graduates are pre-disposed to prefer authoritarian and vertical institutions instead of horizontal relationships between persons, more so as the western type liberal education system does not cater for training in innovation and risk-taking.
Chairman of the occasion, Chief Ogbonnaya Onoh, described the lecture as ideal and timely.
Chief Onoh said the difference between states under the APC is that functional education in skills and trades are offered, unlike the states of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, where there is no plan for the future of the youths.
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