SMEDAN Boss Laments Poor Reading Culture among Students
Dikko Umar Radda
- Donates N5,000 textbooks to Katsina schools
By Francis Sardauna in Katsina
The Managing-Director of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), Dr. Umar Dikko Radda, has lamented the declining rate of reading culture among Nigerian students.
Radda, who spoke in Katsina Sunday while donating 5,000 textbooks to public and private secondary schools in Batagarawa Local
Government Area of the state, said reading culture among the youth was abysmally low in
the country. The textbooks donated were Basic Technology, Comprehensive Mathematics and English, National Values, Comprehensive Economics,
Islamic Studies, Agricultural Science, Brilliant English, Biology, Business Studies, Food and
Nutrition, Fundamental of Cultural and Creative Art, Physics, among others. He said the trend, no doubt, poses a potent catalyst for the distortion of societal norms and values, as the youth are the heart of development in any human society.
According to him, “The problem fencing the education sector is because of a lack of reading
culture among Nigerian students. If we want to succeed in education, we must improve the
reading culture among our children.”This is my Foundation, Gwagware Foundation, deems it worthy to donate 5,000 textbooks to public and private secondary schools in
Batagarawa Local Government Area. This is part of our effort to support the state government in boosting education.”
He explained that the government alone couldn’t tackle the challenges besetting the education sector because of the mono-economic system of
the country, hence the need for stakeholders to support the government’s effort in revamping education.
The state Commissioner for Education, Lawal Badamasi Charanchi, who received the textbooks on behalf of the state government, warned principals of the benefiting schools against selling the textbooks to their students.
