Gombe Launches Free Registration To Tackle Out-of-School Children Crisis

Gombe State has intensified efforts to curb its alarming out-of-school children crisis, with the archetypal lady, Asma’u Inuwa Yahaya flagging disconnected a escaped registration programme for children successful Gombe section authorities area.

Official records amusement that the authorities has nary less than 787,619 out-of-school children.

In response, the authorities authorities launched an enrolment run done the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), successful collaboration with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and UNICEF, to chopped the fig by fractional earlier 2030.

The inaugural offers escaped registration and learning materials to children crossed each 11 section authorities areas successful the state. Each LGA is tasked with enrolling astatine slightest 20,000 pupils, mounting a corporate people of 220,000 children.

At the motorboat successful Gombe, the archetypal woman appealed to parents to usage the accidental to enrol their children, stressing Governor Inuwa Yahaya’s committedness to kid payment done education, healthcare and nutrition.

The SUBEB chairman, Babaji Babadidi, said the enrolment thrust goes beyond numbers. According to him, it aims to beforehand behavioural alteration that ensures not lone enrolment but besides retention, completion and creaseless modulation of pupils wrong the acquisition system.

The commissioner for Education, Aishatu Maigari, described the inaugural arsenic “a bold step” towards bridging the acquisition spread and advancing sustainable development. She called connected section authorities chairmen to guarantee children stay successful schoolhouse until they implicit secondary education.

Maigari said with the enrolment drive, Gombe State is positioning acquisition arsenic the backbone of improvement portion tackling 1 of the astir urgent societal challenges.

The programme is expected to springiness thousands of children successful agrarian and municipality communities entree to ceremonial education, which stakeholders accidental could reshape the state’s future.