JUST IN: PRES. TINUBU APPROVES SCHOOLS CENSUS PROJECT

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According to Yusuf Sununu, Minister of State for Education, the federal government would keep placing a high priority on the use of technology in the classroom.

Sununu stressed the value of technology in giving students access to the internet and in promoting their own studies.

He claimed that the education project, which included gathering comprehensive data from kindergarten through tertiary institutions in Nigeria, had received President Bola Tinubu’s approval.

At the Computer Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN)-hosted 2024 Information Technology Professionals’ Assembly in Abuja on Wednesday, with the subject “Artificial Intelligence: An Enabler for Economic Transformation and Sustainable Development,” Sununu made this statement.

He said: “In the last few days, President Bola Tinubu has approved the education project which encapsulated the generation of overall data of all schools in Nigeria right from kindergarten to our tertiary institutions.

“This will enable us to have the actual data and number of students, their performances, the number of schools and their current status so that we can intervene where we can.”

According to the minister, the ministry is working with other governmental organisations to guarantee complete data on children who are not enrolled in school.

He recalled that returning out-of-school children from the streets to school was one of the current administration’s campaign promises.

The minister said: “It is worrisome that Nigeria has the first position in the number of out-of-school children globally.

“Over 20 million out-of-school children is unacceptable and that’s why we must find a solution to it.”

Sununu commended the efforts of the council at eliminating quackery in the profession, urging them to redouble their strategies to rid quackery of the system.

The minister urged the council to align with the vision of the Tinubu administration in their programmes and activities so that it would not be a mirage.

He said: “Your efforts at eliminating quackery in the profession through the registration of individuals and corporate organisations that are practising Information Technology have not been unnoticed.

“The Federal Ministry of Education is conscious of your efforts at enforcing the Act that established CPN by making it mandatory for all individuals and corporate organisations that are practising IT in Nigeria to be duly registered with CPN.

“The global practice is for professionals to regulate their profession properly to exterminate quacks and undesirable elements from making incursions into the profession.

“Therefore, all individuals and corporate organisations that are into Information Technology practice should register with CPN to allow for effective regulation of computer education and practice in Nigeria,” he said.

The president and chairman of CPN, Kole Jagun, said the IT Professionals’ Assembly had continued to set the tenor and directions for IT policies for successive governments.

He said this was part of the various initiatives of the Council to ensure that Nigeria was positioned to take maximum advantage of the knowledge-based economy globally.

Jagun stated that 400 new members would be inducted into the profession on Thursday (today).

He said: “There is no doubt that our profession is a critical sector to the development of any nation in this modern world.

“In fact, no meaningful development can take place if the Information Technology sector is prostate. That is why we have to be alive to our responsibility of moving with the dynamics and realities in the world. The profession has evolved and should take the centre stage of national development.”

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