The Borno State Government says it will start paying parents who enrol their children to acquire Western education, especially in the northern part of the state.


Governor Kashim Shettima disclosed this on Sunday while interacting with some Bama elders at the GRA, Maiduguri.

Shettima said this initiative was part of the government’s `Conditional Cash Transfer’ scheme for poor households.

He said that the objective of the scheme was to ensure that parents sent their children to school rather than allow them roam the streets.

He blamed the Boko Haram insurgency for the poverty and ignorance in the state, adding that it disrupted the socio-economic activities in the state; and urged parents to send their children parents to school to safeguard their future.

He said government was also working on plans to reconstruct the 825 classrooms destroyed by the Boko Haram insurgents, to prepare grounds for the commencement of academic programmes in the affected schools

Responding, the chairman of the elders, Ahmed Yusufari, thanked Shettima for the visit.

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gboliwe:
Imagine! The students go to school free of charge on fg expense, then the parents are also paid! Can you imagine?! I also live in the same state but I am from Delta state, to go to school, I pay my way through, my parents see to this. Yet we are both Nigerian students. Too much injustice

ledafaze: Is this the Democracy the so called fore fathers fought for?
Are we not now engaging Racism?

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Racism within the black nation... within a country... and now within a state!

Poor Nigeria!

Gboliwe: Imagine! The students go to school free of charge on fg expense, then the parents are also paid! Can you imagine?! I also live in the same state but I am from Delta state, to go to school, I pay my way through, my parents see to this. Yet we are both Nigerian students. Too much injustice

REMMEI:

did you attempt to read the news at all?..oh!..you are still craving for more almajiries to come begging at your door right..they wanna take boko haram off the street to bring boko halal..you are here spitting gibberish..mtchewww!

Gboliwe: Imagine! The students go to school free of charge on fg expense, then the parents are also paid! Can you imagine?! I also live in the same state but I am from Delta state, to go to school, I pay my way through, my parents see to this. Yet we are both Nigerian students. Too much injustice

Gboliwe: Imagine! The students go to school free of charge on fg expense, then the parents are also paid! Can you imagine?! I also live in the same state but I am from Delta state, to go to school, I pay my way through, my parents see to this. Yet we are both Nigerian students. Too much injustice