Zulum embarrassed because JSS students cannot write or read
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Uthman Abubakar, Maiduguri
October 8, 2022
The pathetic state of education in insurgency-ravaged Borno State has manifested itself in Malam-Fatori in the Abadam local government area of the state, where the governor of the state, Professor Babagana Zulum, discovered that the majority of students in a junior high school could not read.
Zulum, who was last Thursday in Malam-Fatori, the headquarters of Abadam Local Government Area, located along the shores of Lake Chad in the northern part of the state, said made a surprise visit to the city's Central Primary School and carried out an aptitude test on around 100 students from the school's Junior Secondary School section.
At the end of the test, the governor discovered that 95% of the admitted students could not read. Only seven of all students said they could read.
He then asked each of the seven students to read a text book and say the phrase: "Social Studies".
Five of the seven students pronounced it correctly while two failed.
The Governor was deeply concerned about the quality of education at the school, especially after discovering that of the 224 teachers employed by LGA schools, only six were present during his visit, and none of them had the required teaching qualification.
Zulum's findings confirmed a report presented to him in February 2022, which assessed the quality of primary school teachers in the 27 local governments of Borno State.
The report had ranked Abadam as having the worst indexes because of 224 teachers assessed, only 14 were certified as fit to teach in primary schools, and none of the 14 were in school when the Governor's visit on Thursday.
The report states that 70 out of 224 teachers in Abadam's LGA are trainable, while 140 are untrainable and therefore unqualified to teach.
At the end of his conclusions on the Malam-Fatori Central Primary Schools, Zulum ordered that drastic measures be taken to remedy the situation, including the deployment of qualified teachers and the retraining of 70 teachers rated trainable across the LGA.
He pledged government support to encourage the 70 teachers to return to colleges to acquire the required teaching knowledge and skills.
Meanwhile, after taking care of school assessment, the governor oversaw the distribution of money to 600 families (households) who had returned to Malam-Fatori for resettlement.< /p>
Please share this story:
Uthman Abubakar, Maiduguri
October 8, 2022
The pathetic state of education in insurgency-ravaged Borno State has manifested itself in Malam-Fatori in the Abadam local government area of the state, where the governor of the state, Professor Babagana Zulum, discovered that the majority of students in a junior high school could not read.
Zulum, who was last Thursday in Malam-Fatori, the headquarters of Abadam Local Government Area, located along the shores of Lake Chad in the northern part of the state, said made a surprise visit to the city's Central Primary School and carried out an aptitude test on around 100 students from the school's Junior Secondary School section.
At the end of the test, the governor discovered that 95% of the admitted students could not read. Only seven of all students said they could read.
He then asked each of the seven students to read a text book and say the phrase: "Social Studies".
Five of the seven students pronounced it correctly while two failed.
The Governor was deeply concerned about the quality of education at the school, especially after discovering that of the 224 teachers employed by LGA schools, only six were present during his visit, and none of them had the required teaching qualification.
Zulum's findings confirmed a report presented to him in February 2022, which assessed the quality of primary school teachers in the 27 local governments of Borno State.
The report had ranked Abadam as having the worst indexes because of 224 teachers assessed, only 14 were certified as fit to teach in primary schools, and none of the 14 were in school when the Governor's visit on Thursday.
The report states that 70 out of 224 teachers in Abadam's LGA are trainable, while 140 are untrainable and therefore unqualified to teach.
At the end of his conclusions on the Malam-Fatori Central Primary Schools, Zulum ordered that drastic measures be taken to remedy the situation, including the deployment of qualified teachers and the retraining of 70 teachers rated trainable across the LGA.
He pledged government support to encourage the 70 teachers to return to colleges to acquire the required teaching knowledge and skills.
Meanwhile, after taking care of school assessment, the governor oversaw the distribution of money to 600 families (households) who had returned to Malam-Fatori for resettlement.< /p>
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