Manpower shortage: Group distributes radio to 150 schools for broadcast lessons

 CEPAD-Nigeria is airing curriculum based lessons to pupils in Adamawa State, distributing rechargeable radio sets to 150 schools to facilitate ‎listening.‎ The programme which will air on radio Gotel Yola ‎is aimed at helping junior secondary pupils and out of school children in the state where Boko Haram insurgency displaced many and destroyed several schools. […]

 CEPAD-Nigeria is airing curriculum based lessons to pupils in Adamawa State, distributing rechargeable radio sets to 150 schools to facilitate ‎listening.‎

The programme which will air on radio Gotel Yola ‎is aimed at helping junior secondary pupils and out of school children in the state where Boko Haram insurgency displaced many and destroyed several schools.

The Executive Director, Centre for Public Education and Development in Nigeria (CEPAD-Nigeria), Maxwell Mamidu who presented 300 radio sets  to principals of the beneficiary schools in Yola on Sunday said the project was being funded by MacAthur Foundation.‎‎

He noted that the Radio School broadcast would delivers lessons in English, Mathematics, Basic Science and Civic Education to supplement classroom lessons and help bridge gaps  in schools with manpower shortages.

According to Prof. Kaleptapwa Farauta, the Adamawa State Commissioner of Education, who was represented by Tanko Musa, an assistant Director Basic Education in the ministry, the insurgency in the North East of which Adamawa is a part has adversely affected school attendance.

Farauta while receiving 300 rechargeable radios for before their distribution to 150 principals drawn from different secondary schools in the state said the school radio programme will tremendously enhance student performance and educational standards of students in the state especially those who have stayed away.