Yusuf gave the assurance while declaring open a two-day Education Recovery Conference held at Dangote Business School, Bayero University, Kano, with the theme, “Repositioning Education in Kano State: Navigating the Path to Excellence.”
“We were prepared before declaring a state of emergency on Education,” he told the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, who was represented by Dr. Folake Olatunji.
Yusuf said that no amount of investment in a child is as comparatively profitable as education, while he appealed to participants to actively engage in the deliberations.
“Our priority is for us to benefit from the wisdom of experts, as well as the determination to chart a new course that no child in this state is left behind.
“We have the political will, but parents, teachers, government and everyone, including the private sector, should roll up their sleeves. On our part, we believe it is achievable,” Yusuf said.
The Development Director of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, British High Commission, Ms. Cynthia Rowe said the United Kingdom has reaffirmed its commitment to supporting the state government in addressing significant challenges in the state.
“The UK’s overriding education objective in Nigeria is to ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality education.
“Education is fundamental to enduring poverty reduction, building prosperous, resilient economies and peaceful, stable societies,” she said.
In his remarks, the Secretary to the State Government, Dr. Abdullahi Baffa said, “There is the need to harmonise learning and teaching transpiring in our tertiary institutions, as well as re-define our goals periodically.
“Since the creation of Kano State in the late 60s and up to the mid-80s, our state had a Periodic Development Plan and we must return to development planning if our state is to develop; or else, it will remain one vast landscape of unconnected contracts, and disconnected researchers unable to connect their work with the state’s development policies and vision.”
The Minister for Education commended the state government for organising the conference and for striving to salvage the education sector from total collapse. Yusuf pledges to revive Kano’s education sector
