FG intensifies effort to train 40m illiterate Nigerians

The Federal Government has commenced training for no fewer than 700 non former education facilitators across the country to effectively improve adult and youth literacy in the country.

The Executive Secretary, National Commission for Mass Education, Alhaji Jibrin Piako disclosed this in Lokoja, Kogi State capital during a five-day scale up training for 120 facilitators from the North Central zone of the country recently.

According to him, the objective of the programme is to strengthen national capacity for delivery of quality literacy programmes to estimated 40 million illiterate Nigerians in order to achieve the Education for All (EFA) goals and education related MDGs by the 2015 target year.

Piako explained that 433 master trainers and 3,774 facilitators have been trained across the country between 2012 and 2013, saying in this training 20 facilitators were drawn from each state of the country, excluding the FCT and River State.

He said the training would update facilitators’ knowledge on current and most innovative ways of discharging and enhance their ability to impart knowledge for the benefit of their trainees across the country.

He stressed that Federal Government’s expectation from the local government authority was the recruitment and target setting for facilitators, payment of allowance, provision and distribution of materials and equipment to centres, as well as sensitisation of target groups.

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