Zulum Unveils Higher Islamic School In Biu, Shares Textbooks And Bicycles To Students
The Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Zulum has today Wednesday, 14th September 2022 in commissioned a 60-classroom community school for higher Islamic studies, built and donated by the state government in Biu Local Government Area.
Zulum arrived Biu town on Tuesday and passed the night, before today’s commissioning of the higher Islamic school.
The Higher Islamic school system enables students with certain level of Quranic knowledge, gained from traditional Islamiyas, to transit into western education for diploma programmes, and the diplomas can qualify them for admissions into universities and other tertiary schools.
The commissioned school was initiated and run by community members in an aged building, before Zulum approved the construction of an entirely new and far bigger-size school from scratch to finish.
After commissioning the school, Governor Zulum handed over a cheque of N40m to proprietor of the school, Alhaji Mohammed ‘Young’ Kidda.
The N40m is support from the State Government for community-based managers of the school to pay salaries of staff over a period of time.
Commissioner for Education, Engr. Lawan Abba Wakilbe explained that “the school will implement the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) curriculum”, and the “institution is expected to run the Junior Islamic Studies (JIS), Senior Islamic Studies (SIS) and a Diploma Programme”.
Wakilbe noted that the sixty (60) classroom mega school has six offices, three staff common room, and is equipped with 1,200 students’ desks, while each of 60 classrooms has a chair and table for teachers and white marker board to aid teaching.
The school is fully fenced, landscaped and flowered, and connected to National grid for power supply, while it also has water supply facilities with 13 wash rooms.
The Governor also shares textbooks and bicycles to the students who use to trek three to five kilometers “from Mzita community in Dueja ward of Biu Local Government Area, to attend Tum primary school” located outside where they live.
Emir of Biu, Mai Mustapha Umar Mustapha the 2nd, thanked and commended Governor Zulum for siting numerous developmental projects across towns and villages in Biu LGA as well other Local Government Areas under Biu Emirate.
Reported By: Muhammad Isah Ramat
Wednesday 14th September 2022
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