As the world marks 2022 International Literacy Day (ILD), the FCT Administration has stressed the need to continue to entrench the culture of improved Knowledge acquisition and economic education and skills empowerment.
The FCT Administration, said over the years, it has expressed its resolute commitment to quality education with
renewed emphasis to overcome illiteracy and ignorance which will help to accelerate financial independence.
FCTA’s Secretary for Education, Sani Dahir El-Katuzu, made this assertion while briefing the press on the commemoration of this year’s ILD, with the “Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces; Exploring opportunities and Possibilities”.
El-Katuzu, represented by Director Administration and Finance (DAF), Education Secretariat, Leramoh Abduralzak, noted that the ILD 2022 theme avails us the opportunity to further deepen the efforts of the FCT Administration to ensure equitable and inclusive education for all.
He disclosed that the FCT Education Secretariat has evolved series of policies and strategies to ensure that every resident of the FCT has equal access to quality education which is also affordable.
He added that the Department of Mass Education (DME) of the Education Secretariat had rolled out series of life changing skills acquisition, training to adults, women and youths in the FCT, which is geared towards reducing the rate of illiteracy in the Territory.
According to him: “Our determination in enhancing the pace of literacy learning
space is re-enforced by this 2022 inspired theme. It is this access to quality Education that advance the course of literacy and help to show case productivity, ideas and turn the wheels of modern day life.
“We thank the FCT Minister and his team for the immense support Administration, in order for us to realize our crucial role in the overall development of the FCT.
“We cannot try to imagine what life would be like if there was no access to education, which is capable of transforming the learning space through many opportunities and make impossible dreams and visions become possible.
“All the achievements of DME among others is worth celebrating on this remarkable International Literacy Day as it geared towards realising the 2022 theme of “Transforming Literacy Learning Spaces; Exploring Opportunities and Possibilities”.
On her part, Director, FCT Mass Education, Hajarat Titilayo Alayande, highlighting the numerous efforts of FCT Administration targeted at raising literacy index in the nation’s Capital, said a lot of activities have been outlined to celebrate the Day.
Alayande called on residents to take advantage of it’s over 200 Mass Education and vocational centers scattered across the six Area Councils of the territory to lift themselves out of illiteracy and poverty irrespective of age, sex and status.
She explained that the Mass Education platform of FCTA was inclusively and robustly established to cater for everybody, including the Nomadic Herders, the Almagiris’ and even the elderly people within the age of 50 to 60.
