Education
Commission Sets Up Plantation To Support Girl-Child Education In Sokoto
The Sokoto State Zakkat and Endowment Commission has set up a plantation of economic trees at Government Girls College for Islamic Science Shuni, to support girl-child education in the state.
The commission’s Chairman, Malam Muhammad Maidoki, said at the weekend that the gesture was part of efforts to ensure that no female student drops out of school because of lack of finances.
Maidoki called on the school authority to ensure proper maintenance of the plantation to enable the realisation of the collective goals of the Commission.
The chief guest at the event, Dr Abdullahi Ishola commended the Commission for engaging in tree planting, discribing such as among the good deeds in Islam.
He called on the general public to sustain the habit of tree planting, “as such is an endowment that attract a lot of reward from Allah.”
The state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education. Alhaji Bello Guiwa, represented by the Director Quality Assurance of the Ministry, Abdullahi Durbawa, thanked the Commission for the gesture.
The Sultan of Sokoto, represented by the District Head of Shuni, Alhaji Muhammad Jabbi, also commended the initiative and urged the public to remain committed to acts that would always attract continuous reward from Allah.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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