FG Commends Queen’s College for Promoting Girl-child Education
Uchechukwu Nnaike
The Federal Ministry of Education has commended the Principal of Queen’s College, Lagos, Dr. Tokunbo Yakubu-Oyinloye, for her vision and doggedness in ensuring that the girls get the best education.
The Director, Senior Secondary Education Department in the ministry, Mrs. Binta Abdulkadir, said this recently while inaugurating the Guidance and Counseling Unit and other projects at the school.
The director also thanked the PTA for donating a brand new 18-seater bus to the school.
She said the school’s efforts align with the strategic plan of the ministry, especially the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) programme.
Abdulkadir promised that the Federal Government would do its best to ensure that the girl-child gets the proper and correct education she deserves.
According to her, empowering the girl-child remains key to the nation’s development.
“AGILE is therefore on course as one of such interventions the ministry is projecting on, apart from our conventional schools, for the benefit of the girl-child,” she explained.
In her remarks, Yakubu-Oyinloye said other projects inaugurated were the agric and technology building, which houses the Agric, technology and basic science. She said 60 technical drawing tables were also provided to enhance the capacity of the technology and science students.
Yakubu-Oyinloye applauded the education ministry for its commitment to expanding the frontiers of education for the good of the Nigerian child.
The PTA chairman, Adedamola Adewuyi, said when the current PTA executive came on board, one of its core motive was to ensure that the guidance and counselling unit of the college met global standard so that the college counsellors would be able to monitor the academic and behavioural performance of all students.
This he said would assist the students in selecting or making good career choices.
The chairman noted that the counselling unit was necessary because it has been discovered that some students would have progressed to as far as SS2 or SS3 before realising that they chose the wrong career path.
Adewuyi added that the development was an important one for the unit, having been renovated by the federal government. He said the intervention of the PTA was basically to ensure that all the counselling rooms were well segmented and properly furnished.
“We have the registry, motivational items, the HOD office and others, all fully furnished by the PTA. Because we believe in the power of guidance and counselling and ensuring we get it right, we are convinced that with this, we can go back to the days when Queen’s College used to be the best in all external examinations.
On the rationale behind the bus donation, the PTA chairman said: “These students have really encouraged us in the past two years; they have won lots of competitions and we found out that when they go for these competitions, there is always the challenge of availability of busses, as some of the available ones may not be functioning well.
“We are happy that we were able to acquire this bus during my time as the PTA chairman. I sincerely want to commend the principal too for her efforts in getting things right for the college and also thank the Federal Ministry of Education for all it is doing to move education to the next level in the country,” he said.
