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Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, said he has established nine senior girls’ day secondary schools to boost girl-child education in the state.
Buni stated this while flagging off disbursement and empowerment programmes for women, IDPs, and schoolgirls.
The move, he added, is aimed at reducing cases of drop-outs among girls and ensuring a smooth transition to senior secondary education after completing junior secondary school.
Governor Buni said the state, in its determination to rejuvenate the education sector, has embarked on key reforms which include, but are not limited to, the massive employment of qualified teachers, training and retraining of teachers, the reconstruction and renovation of over 5,000 classrooms, and the establishment of 13 new mega and model schools.
Others, he added, include the provision of teaching and learning materials in both basic and senior secondary schools, and the timely payment of WAEC and NECO examination fees for SS III students of Yobe State origin in all public schools across the state.
In partnership with the World Bank, the state, he revealed, will establish new secondary schools across the 17 Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state through the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project.
“This is aside other interventions carried out by the AGILE project which includes the disbursement of N1,295,280,000 to 32,382 girls selected from the 17 local government areas for the first cohort,” he said.
At the occasion, the governor also launched the disbursement of N300 million Micro Enterprises Grants to 1,500 beneficiaries from Mallam Dunari community and the empowerment of 340 beneficiaries with skills in various vocations selected from the 17 Local Government Areas of the state to uplift their economic status as the pillars of their homes.
“We are deliberately investing in economic empowerment, financial inclusion, and community ownership as pathways to lasting peace. By injecting cash directly into local economies and equipping beneficiaries with the right skills, we are tackling poverty, unemployment, and the socio-economic drivers of instability,” he said.
Beneficiaries were urged to utilise the interventions for the benefit of the state and their families.
Yobe gov builds nine girls’ schools, empowers women, female students
