From Abdulkarim Umar Lihhida
Fifty Selected primary schools in ten Local Government areas in Zamfara State will benefit from 750 million naira assistance from a Norway foundation for self Inclusive learning and skill for all (SILSA), a UNICEF Program.
UNICEF Focal person in Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board (ZSUBEB), Muzamil Ibrahim made the pronouncement during a distribution of safety and security kits to benefiting
schools for the first quarter in the state.
This contained in a statement signed by ZSUBEB public relation officer Mallam Ibrahim Musa Maize and made it available to the newsmen in Gusau the state capital.
He said Zamfara State is among the selected states in Nigeria to benefit from the gesture of the Norway foundation.
The Norway Foundation is a body which provides support to primary schools as part of measures of curtailing the menace of insecurity in the state and nation in general.
In his Address, the Acting chairman, Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board also Director Administration of the Board , Alhaji Aminu Kanoma, Commended the effort of the Norway foundation for distributing the gesture and assured of the Board's readiness to ensure proper monitoring on how best to make use of it.
He also called on the benefitting schools to use it judiciously and pray for divine intervention in the restoration of peace and tranquility in all nooks and crannies of the state and country in general.
