Illiterate Nigerians from age 15 and above stand the chance of being educated. This is part of the Federal Government’s plans to ensure that two million Nigerians in this category get educated and acquire different skills yearly.
In the circumstances, the Kano State Government has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of a multi-purpose hall in the Kano Zonal Office of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-formal Education.
The Executive Secretary, National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and non-formal Education, Prof. Simon Ibor Akpama said the project is with a view to creating an encouraging teaching and learning environment that will promote fun for national literacy programme for the Kano Centre as well as upgrade the status of the Centre to reflect regional setting.
Akpama disclosed this while performing the groundbreaking ceremony in Kano, stating that the multi-purpose hall was part of the concerted efforts by the commission to improve the physical structures of the Kano Centre through the support of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) intervention fund and regular capital projects.
He listed already existing projects built with the said source of funding to include three classroom blocks with rooms for members of staff, toilets, as well as the renovation of two hostels, landscaping, provision of solar street lights, warehouse crèche and children play facilities, among others.
The Executive Secretary described the multi-purpose hall as a landmark one in the construction of an ideal place for productive brainstorming sessions.
On the benefits derivable from the Hall, Prof. Akpama said when the structure is fully completed in the next 16 weeks, it will complement the series of extensive existing infrastructural and physical facilities designed for the transformation of the Kano Centre into a befitting learning environment already put in place by the Commission under the 2015 to 2019 UBEC intervention fund.