The Sokoto State Government has launched the Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project, aimed at improving educational outcomes for adolescent girls in the state.
Governor Ahmad Aliyu, who launched the project on Monday at the Government House in Sokoto, said it was part of the state’s broader agenda to transform the education sector.
The governor explained that the AGILE Project would focus on enhancing access to education, life skills training, and financial support for adolescent girls.
In his address the commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education Professor Ahmed Ladan Ala commended the Governor for his commitment shown towards ensuring that Agile project becomes a reality in the state.
Ala said that the Governor has not only fulfill his obligations of providing the state counterpart funding for the project but demonstrated a great deal of political will to the development of girl child education
“This unwavering commitment by His Excellency has gone to prove his zeal, commitment and dedication towards ensuring that our sons and daughters get the kind of education they require in the overall development of our state”
He added that the state government has made a pledge to provide the sum of 200,000 to each and every principal in the state which is expected to help the them in providing essential services and facilities in their immediate school environment, adding that “this is something that is unprecedented, something that has not happened, I don’t think anywhere in this country in any of the states”.
The coordinator of Agile in the state, Dr Mansur Isa Buhari also commended the effort of the state government towards its involvement in the Agile project.
Buhari said the launch of the project will turn around the fortune of many young girls in the state, affirming that the huge investments made in the Agile project will not go in vain.
“We will not disappoint you.And we assure you that Sokoto Agile projects will be some of the projects to be proud of in Sokoto states during and after your tenure”
Also, as part of the flagging off event, 240 students benefited from school empowerment grants.
