Sultan of Sokoto raises alarm over threat to education in Nigeria

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has raised the alarm over the deplorable state of infrastructure in the education sector across the country.

The Sultan said this on Wednesday in Sokoto, while receiving the management of the Federal University, Gusau, who paid him a courtesy visit at his palace.

He noted that state of infrastructure poses a threat to the education sector as it was one of the basic foundations of education and for any institution to develop, it must have standard infrastructure.

He said “The issue of education must be given much concern from all stakeholders; our well-meaning individuals must give maximum support to education.

“Last week, I attended a meeting on education issues in Kaduna and we discovered that we have about 10 million out- of-school children in Nigeria.

“If you look at the present situation of our schools, we don’t have infrastructure that can accommodate them, we have serious challenges ahead of us.

“For us to have standard education, we must have good infrastructure and qualitative teachers”, he said.

He urged well-meaning individuals to intervene in developing the education system in the country.