It was a day set aside for the distribution of resources for the free education policy in the state as well as the unveiling of 10,000 copies of Teen Trust, a Media Trust Ltd publication, to help improve schoolchildren’s reading culture in the state.
The paper, first published in 2016 according to the publisher, is to encourage literacy among students and teenagers; to make the students become efficient writers as well as develop a proper reading habit.
“We have entered into an agreement with Daily Trust for the production of this newspaper, Teen Trust, to inform, educate and entertain our school children; so that they can develop their reading culture,” the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje declared to the crowd.
Speaking at the event, Ganduje said the state has been able to judiciously use its resources via the policy to reduce the number of out-of-school children in the state.
“When we say free, we mean children will no longer pay school fees and by compulsory education, we mean it is necessary and not optional, the right of children to education.
“We are distributing textbooks of English and Mathematics for JSS1-3 and SS1-3 as part of educational facilities.
“We are also providing cheques for the maintenance of our schools on daily basis and we have also introduced additional innovation by adding other aspects of Islamic knowledge and western education in our three Tsangaya school system so that the curriculum will go beyond recitation of the Holy Quran only.
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