*Katagum LGA presents scholarship to candidate who scored 347 in JAMB
Chuks Okocha in Abuja and Segun Awofadeji in Bauchi
The presidential candidate of the Labour occasion within the 2023 basic election, Peter Obi, has canvassed the necessity for aggressive funding in schooling, stressing that schooling stays the important thing to growth in Nigeria.
This was simply because the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Katagum Native Authorities Space of Bauchi State, Musa Azare, introduced that he has taken full accountability of paying the varsity charges of Abdullahi Aliyu Garba, who scored a complete of 347 marks within the latest Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination.
Nevertheless, Obi who was reacting to the latest JAMB outcomes, lamented the low scores among the many college students when put next with others in creating nations.
In an announcement he signed, Obi mentioned, “We should prioritise schooling as a key driver of growth by aggressively investing in schooling, enhancing instructor coaching programmes, and implementing inclusive insurance policies.”
Stressing additional, Obi mentioned, “The latest revelation relating to the JAMB UTME 2024 outcomes and percentages has sparked deep concern concerning the state of schooling in our nation.
“These statistics paint a troubling image that calls for pressing nationwide consideration and dialogue.
“The distribution of scores is alarming, with solely 0.5 per cent of candidates reportedly scoring 300 (75 per cent) and above, whereas a staggering 76 per cent scored beneath 200 (beneath 50 per cent).
“This highlights a systemic problem inside our schooling sector indicating a major lack of consideration to this very important contributor to nationwide growth. This brings to limelight an apparent hole within the high quality of schooling offered nationwide. Schooling stays a important determinant of a nation’s progress on the Human Improvement Index (HDI).”
The previous Anambra State governor mentioned these are inside medium and excessive HDI.
In accordance with Obi, “Although we declare as a nation that our literacy fee is above 50 per cent, which is much beneath the worldwide common of about 80 per cent and continues to lag behind different comparable nations like Iran, Egypt, Indonesia, Bangladesh and the Philippines with literacy charges of above 70 per cent.
“This once more, underscores the systemic problem in entry to high quality schooling, significantly in rural areas,” Obi confused.
He mentioned, “One of many penalties of the reported basic poor efficiency in UTME is that with our inhabitants of over 200 million, Nigeria can solely boast of about two million full-time college students in several universities.
“Whereas Iran with a inhabitants of over 89 million has over 8.2 million college students in a single college alone, Islamic Azad College, Bangladesh with a inhabitants of about 173 million boasts of over two million enrolled undergraduates within the Nationwide College of Bangladesh.
“This underscores the urgency of the eye wanted in our schooling sector. In fixing this problem, we should prioritise schooling as a key driver of growth by aggressively investing in schooling, enhancing instructor coaching programmes, and implementing inclusive insurance policies.
“A brand new Nigeria is certainly POssible!,” Obi acknowledged.
In the meantime, the Caretaker Committee Chairman of Katagum LGA, Azare has taken full accountability for paying the varsity charges of Garba who scored a complete of 347 marks within the latest JAMB examination.
A visibly elated Azare expressed happiness that the boy has written the title of the LGA in gold within the historical past books of not solely the realm however the state and the nation.
Talking on the event, the Caretaker Chairman mentioned that, “I noticed the title within the social media and since he’s from my native authorities, my consideration was drawn to the information and I traced the boy by way of my individuals in Azare, we recognized him and requested them to convey him to my workplace.
“He was dropped at my workplace and we sat down and talked for a couple of moments after which I promised to settle all his college charges for 4 years each time he bought admitted into the college, he selected BUK to learn Software program Engineering. His college charges is about N500,000, it’s not actually a lot.
In accordance with him,”His father might be left with solely shopping for biscuits, sweets, cornflakes and different issues for him whereas going to high school. I’m impressed with the outcomes and based on the obtainable data, there isn’t any document that’s like his, he has overwhelmed all of the JAMB data within the LGA.
“For now, he stays the general greatest scholar in Katagum LGA JAMB historical past so far as we all know. My recommendation to college students in Katagum LGA and Bauch State at giant is that they need to take note of their research as a result of success can solely be achieved by way of arduous work,” he confused.
He added that, “This boy has actually labored arduous, Abdullahi Aliyu Garba has actually labored arduous. His father informed me how the boy will get up late within the night time, midnight studying his books, denying his eyes of sleep in order that he’ll cross his exams.”
In accordance with him,”His father is a effectively to do man however the boy didn’t see that as something like others will do due to wealth and that even when he didn’t go to high school, his father will present for him. He decided in his coronary heart to learn arduous to grow to be somebody within the society. Let different college students copy from Abdullahi, good morales and dedication.”
The proud father mentioned that,”I’m the daddy of the boy, Abdullahi Aliyu Garba who scored a complete of 347 marks within the latest JAMB examination. He wrote Chemistry, Physics together with Arithmetic and English.”
In accordance with him, “He scored 95 in Chemistry, 95 in Physics, 95 in Arithmetic and 62 in English. While you accumulate the marks, it is going to quantity to 347 out of the whole of 400.
He has utilized for the course of Civil Engineering at Bayero College, Kano (BUK).”
