Sokoto State government has approved the commencement of Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment, AGILE, Project in the state, with N150 million as its counterpart funding.
The state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Muhammad Tukur Alkali announced this during ministerial scorecard press briefing.
According to the commissioner, apart from the N150 million counterpart funds, the state government also approved another N50 million for the take-off of the programme.
The commissioner disclosed that another achievement recorded by Governor Ahmad Aliyu within the year in education sector was strengthening collaboration through engagements with development partners such as United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, USAID, LEARN To Read, PLAN-International, USAID-State2State project and LEAP Africa towards improving delivery in the state.
Alkali also disclosed a collaboration with UNICEF Nigeria to introduce Learning Passport Nigeria, Girls Employability and Skill Partnership Programme, REACH Project as another achievement of governor Sokoto.
He further asserted that the governor has sponsored the programme on Training of Mastet Trainers, Teacher and Facilitators on Early Grade Reading techniques and similarly procured teaching and learning material for both formal and non-formal learning centres in the state.
Another milestone of achievements is collaboration with UBEC to train 145 education Managers and 2,718 teachers amongst other achievements executed by the state government under the leadership of Ahmad Aliyu Sokoto in the education sector, he said.
