Anambra state government has intensified measures in ensuring literacy for all in the state.Anambra State Commissioner for Basic Education Professor Kate Omenugha stated this while speaking at a one day programme by the Agency for mass Literacy, Adult and Non formal Education ANNFE to mark this year’s world literacy, day at the Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board ASUBEB premises Awka.
Professor Omenugha noted that Governor Willie Obiano who she described as education friendly left no stone turned in ensuring that every willing individual in the state is educated adding that adult education offers opportunity to people who couldn’t go to school at their youthful age to obtain at least basic education.
She pointed out that the present administration is committed to ensuring that the needs of all learners must be met through adequate provision of learning materials.
She noted that the aim for establishing the agency is to ensure literacy for all in Anambra adding that the centres are in all communities of the state, commending facilitators and encouraged them to put in their best to ensure that learners understand them during classes.
The Acting Executive Secretary and Director of Agency for Mass Literacy Mr. Donatus Nwosu, said that the importance of the programme was to create awareness on the need for people to acquire education even in their adult stage.
A resource person from UNIZIK Dr Johnson Ewelum taught facilitators benefits of consistent monitoring, advising participants to recognize individual differences of their students to make teaching flexible for them.
The senior Education officer of the agency Mrs. Theresa Chinwendu and the Public Relations Officer of the agency Mrs. Ebele Iyke-Odili, thanked Governor Obiano for his efforts in ensuring free adult education in the state.
The theme of the programme was “The consistent monitoring and motivation as the major ingredients of Adult Basic Education”.
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