SUBEB NEWS TODAY... By Abdullahi Umar Chamo Solvator) and Ismaila A sabo

Jigawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) says the state government had trained over three thousand teachers across the state.

SUBEB chairman, Alhaji Salisu Zakar disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse.
He said that beneficiaries of the training programme were selected from primary and junior secondary schools in the 27 local government areas in the state.
According to him, the step is to build the capacity of teachers in order to improve standard of education.

Alhaji Salisu Zakar said that the government had also concluded plans to recruit 4,500 teachers in the state.
He said that teachers were inadequate in primary and secondary schools across the state, and the financial implication of the proposed recruitment had been captured in the 2016 budget.

Alhaji Zakar said government had released more than 600 million naira as counterpart funds to various Federal Government education programmes to enable the state to access necessary funds to improve its basic education.

Abdullahi Umar Chamo
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JIGAWA STATE HOUSING NEWS... By Abdullahi Umar Chamo (Solvator) and Ismaila A sabo

HOUSING

Jigawa state government in collaboration with federal mortgage bank will construct one thousand, four hundred and thirty houses in across the state.

The Managing Director of Jigawa Saving and Loan Bank, Alhaji Babangida Umar Gantsa confirmed this to our reporter in an interview.

He said one thousand one hundred and eighty; houses will be constructed in the 27 local government areas, while two hundred and fifty houses will be built in the headquarters of five Emirates.
According to him the state government is awaiting the approval from the federal Mortgage Bank for the commencement of the project.

He said the project was in line with Governor Muhammad Badaru Abubakar commitment to provide decent accommodation to workers in their local governments of origin.

The Managing Director explained that two bedroom houses would cost one million, four hundred thousand naira each, while three bedroom houses will be sold at three million, five hundred thousand naira each.

Abdullahi Umar Chamo
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HEALTH NEWS....

HEALTH

Jigawa state government is to spend over seven hundred and twenty million naira to sponsor 60 students to study Medicine in the People’s Republic of China.
Commissioner for Health Dr Abba Zakari stated this today at a meeting with the benefitting candidates of the scholarship.
Dr Abba Zakari explained that the state government had earlier announced its intention to sponsor students to study medicine abroad in which 3,700 sat for the examination, and 60 among them were selected.
He said the meeting with the prospective students today was to intimate them with the necessary information for documentation.
The commissioner noted that state government will commence the screening of another sets of student mostly females to study nursing and midwifery.
Also speaking the commissioner of Education, Science and Technology Hajia Rabi Isaq represented by the permanent secretary Malam Abdullahi Hudu charged the students to be good ambassadors while in china.