Sokoto spends N850 million monthly on teachers’ salaries-Tambuwal

TCR NEWS
07 Jul 2016



Sokoto spends N850 million monthly on teachers’ salaries-Tambuwal


No less than N 850 million is being paid as monthly salaries to all categories of teachers in Sokoto state, Governor Aminu Waziri‎ Tambuwal disclosed yesterday.


Tambuwal made it known in Sokoto at the Annual General Meeting( AGM),of the Sokoto Education Development Trust Fund.


According to the governor” We are also spending huge amount of money in purchasing assorted teaching and learning materials for our schools.


” This is borne out of my administration’s prioritization of the education sector, and our desire to revamp it.


” This is the reason the state government declared a state of emergency on the sector,while we allocated the lion’s share of the 2016 budget to it.”


However, Tambuwal promised to assist the fund to undertake its lofty objectives of complementing government’s efforts in funding education.


The governor further commended the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, for providing credible leadership to the state,Nigeria and the world, at large.


In his remark, Sultan Abubakar lauded the fund for its relentless efforts to assist youths in the state to acquire all forms of education, as well as empowerment, adding that ” The fund has recorded tremendous achievements in all its activities for the last  fourteen years.


” The state government also deserves commendation for according priority attention to education,as well as the  declaration of  a state of emergency on it.’


The reverred monarch also solicited the sustained support of the people of the state to the fund, saying that, funding education should not be left to the government alone.


The chairman of the board of trustees of the fund and second republic President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari, restated its commitment to continue to initiate programmes aimed at bolstering the education in the state.


THE NATION

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