Nigerian government insists on improving educational sector

Professor Rukayyatu Rufa’i,
the Minister of Education

Nigerian government insists on improving educational sector

The Nigerian government has reinstated its determination to improve Nigeria’s education sector, even as it stated that it would encourage reading habit among students in primary and secondary schools.

Speaking at the readership promotion campaign organised by the National Library of Nigeria on Thursday, in Bauchi State, northern Nigeria, the Minister of Education, Professor Rukayyatu Rufa’i, said that the government is committed to improving education, adding that, “government will also encourage schools to establish reading clubs in their schools.”

Campaign Objective

The campaign was aimed at cultivating and sustaining reading habits among Nigerians.

Consequently, secondary schools invited to the campaign will be given 75 titles of books and all the primary schools invited will be given 35 titles of books, in order to establish reading clubs in their schools and to lay a solid foundation for the sustenance of reading culture in schools.

Represented by Mr T Tylor of the Federal Ministry of Education Inspectorate office in Bauchi, the minister said government expended money to construct prototype state branches of the National Library across the country.

While speaking at the event, the Director and Chief Executive of National Library of Nigeria, Mr Habib Abba Jato, noted that poverty, economic status and lack of books published in the mother tongues were the major problems hampering the sustenance of the reading culture in the country.

He stressed the need to increase the quantity and varieties of reading materials in the country as well as find ways to eliminate the problems hampering sustainable reading culture in Nigeria.

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