Shema Advocates Sustainable Educational Drive in Katsina

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Francis Sardauna in Katsina

A former Governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shehu Shema, has advocated a sustainable educational drive that will resuscitate the sector for growth and development to thrive in the state.

He said the state must continue to sustain its status of being the Nigerian epicentre of both Western and Eastern education it has always been since pre-colonial era.

Shema stated this Friday shortly after receiving an award bestowed on him by the Faculty of Law, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina.

The former governor further explained that qualitative and efficient education would ensure the growth and development of the state and the society at large.

He said: “Katsina State must continue to keep that status it has always had since pre-colonial masters of being the centre of Western and Eastern education in Nigeria.”

He explained that late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua was the initiator, founder, designer and conceptualiser of the state-own university, “I just came in to complete the project he started.”

He added that late Yar’Adua’s vision was to have a university in Katsina that will serve the purpose of the advancement of education in Northern Nigeria and the country as a whole.

He, however, commended Governor Dikko Umaru Radda for recruiting 7,325 teachers and for commencing the construction of three special schools across the senatorial zones of the state.

He equally lauded the governor for paying the sum of N640 million as scholarship allowances for students and the payment of N364 million for students for senior secondary school certificate examination.

In his remarks, Governor Radda said the former governor had brought positive developments in all sectors of the economy which resulted in meaningful development in the state.

Represented by his Deputy, Faruq Lawal Jobe, the governor said the modest contributions of Shema in actualising the fruition of the university and its Faculty of Law were unquantifiable.