Zamfara, UNICEF partner on pre-primary education

The Zamfara state Universal Basic Education in collaboration with the United Nations Children Education Funds, Sokoto Field Office has organised a two day workshop on advocacy and policy dialogue for preprimary education development in the state.
The theme of the workshop, For Every Nigerian Child, Pre- primary Education Matters, was aimed at setting the standards and encouraging the transformation of elementary education in the state.
It was specifically to ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality childhood development, care and preprimary education so that they could be ready for primary education in line with SDG4-2, 2030.
In an address of welcome, the Zamfara state chairman of the Universal Basic Education Board, Hon.
Murtala Adamu Jangebe, who was represented by Yahuza Gebe, described the workshop as timely as it would assist his board on improved childhood education system in the state.
Jangebe commended the UNICEF for the partnership with SUBEB and in organizing the workshop, while urging participants to use what they have learnt in their respective places of works.
In a goodwill message, Chief UNICEF Sokoto Field Office, Malam Tukur Labbo , said UNICEF was partnering with SUBEB on policy issues, particularly on how to improve education for the children.
He said, the 2016/2017 multiple indicator cluster survey showed that only 35.6 per cent of children aged 36-59 months attend organized early childhood education programme while, 31.7 per cent of the children under 5 years were left with inadequate care in Nigeria, stressing that UNICEF considered early childhood as the most rapid and critical period of development in human life.

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