In its efforts to promote girl child education Kano State Government has introduced summer camp scheme for girls pupils. This was made known by the Deputy Governor and commissioner education Prof. Hafiz Abubakar while inspecting the programme at Kanti Primary School in Bichi. He said the programme etails giving special training to girl pupils during holidays in order enhance their learning capacity. Prof Abubakar who lamented the backwardness of the state in female education expressed Gov Abdullahi Umar Ganduje administration's determination to reverse the situation. He said a situation where girls education is terminated from Primary or secondary levels need to be changed in view of societal need for female medical doctors, teachers and other professionals He charged parents and other stakeholders to rise to the challenges and support girls to pursue education at all levels. The Deputy Governor stated the Summer Camp programme is jointly being undertaken by Kano State Government and Educational Support Programme in Nigeria of British Government. Earlier the chairman of Bichi Local Government Alhaji Sani Mukaddas noted that the programme will go a long in bridging the gap between boys and girl education . Usman Bello Director Press to Deputy Governor Kano State
By Jaafar Jaafar Ponder over this Hausa proverb: “sawun keke ba’a gane gabanka”, which roughly translates to “a bicycle’s contact patch does not tell where it comes from or where it heads to”, and see how it aptly describes Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari. Bearing in mind the current realities in our polity, how would you, in your wildest dream, think the Secretary to the Government of the Federation will come from the North? The very North that has a President, a Senate President, a Speaker, a Head of Service, a Chief of Staff, a Chief Justice, and what not? While Mr. President is likened to the proverbial “sawun keke”, the pigmentation of his appointments may be likened to “birgimar hankaka”, literally meaning the wallow of a pied crow. When a pied crow wallows, the Hausa say, you will see both the white patch on its gullet and the black plumage that covers most of the bird’s body. In the appointment of the GMD of NNPC, President Buhari showed Nigeria...

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