FG launches Education Communication Strategy to drive reforms, transparency

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja

The national government, Monday, launched a caller Communication Strategy (2025–2027) for the acquisition sector, aimed astatine strengthening transparency, accountability, and nationalist spot successful ongoing reforms nether the Renewed Hope Agenda.

Speaking astatine the authoritative motorboat successful Abuja, Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, described connection arsenic a cardinal pillar of betterment and nationalist development, stressing that acquisition “is not lone astir classrooms and textbooks but astir shaping the destiny of our children and the prosperity of our nation.”

Alausa commended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for prioritising education, noting that the medication has approved the highest budgetary allocation to the assemblage successful Nigeria’s history, starring to upgrades successful infrastructure, teacher training, and the motorboat of the Nigeria Education Sector Renewal Initiative, NESRI.

He besides praised the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, for her contributions done the Renewed Hope Initiative Scholars’ Scheme and her committedness to the stalled National Library Project, which she revitalised done her 65th day entreaty for nationalist donations.

Unveiling the caller strategy, the curate said it was not a papers to beryllium shelved but a blueprint for telling Nigeria’s acquisition communicative with clarity, credibility, and consistency. He explained that the model unites each departments and agencies, sets standards for stakeholder engagement, and serves arsenic a societal declaration with Nigerians.

Highlighting milestones nether NESRI’s six precedence areas, Alausa cited achievements successful Technical and Vocational Education and Training,TVET, including the motorboat of a integer exertion level with 1.3 cardinal applicants, escaped acquisition successful method schools, and Nigeria’s rank of WorldSkills International. He added that 58,000 students person already been matched to grooming centres, portion implicit 5,600 method teachers person been retrained.

In STEMM education, helium listed initiatives specified arsenic the Diaspora BRIDGE programme linking Nigerian institutions with planetary experts, the upgrade of 18 aesculapian schools, and enlargement of nursing and aesculapian pupil enrolment to code manpower shortages successful the wellness sector.

On basal education, helium noted that implicit 4,900 classrooms had been built, 3,000 renovated, and 34 exemplary schools constructed successful the past six months, benefiting much than 2.3 cardinal learners.
The ministry, helium added, has besides developed caller information platforms to show learners from superior to secondary level and rolled retired implicit 60,000 tablets for teacher development.

The curate further highlighted advancement successful girl-child education, with 577,000 girls receiving scholarships and astir 100,000 empowered with beingness skills nether the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment ,AGILE Project.

He besides announced reforms successful program and prime assurance, including the reintroduction of Nigerian History, the motorboat of Citizenship and Heritage Studies, a caller anti-bullying policy, and forthcoming guidelines against cause maltreatment successful schools.

Alausa stressed that the Communication Strategy is anchored connected 4 pillars—Visibility, Coordination, Engagement, and Resilience,explaining that it volition guarantee that each accomplishment successful the assemblage is heard, seen, and felt nationwide.

“Let america archer the communicative of each teacher trained, each kid enrolled, each miss empowered, each program modernised, each innovation adopted. Let nary accomplishment spell unnoticed, and nary Nigerian stay uninformed,” helium said.

The curate urged the media, civilian society, improvement partners, parents, and teachers to enactment the initiative, insisting that reforms tin lone win with nationalist understanding, trust, and progressive participation.

According to him, “with the Renewed Hope Agenda providing vision, NESRI giving structure, and the caller Communication Strategy giving voice, Nigeria’s acquisition assemblage is connected a wide way of renewal, resilience, and reform.”

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