The Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND Committee of the Senate anchored its interactive session with the World Bank on approach to achieving education for all. The Committee chairman, Senator Binta Masi Garba, Adamawa North comprising Madagali, Gulak and Shuwa in the interactive session
emphasised the need for the World Bank to beam their light on the Internally Displaced People in Adamawa state. Sen. Binta Marsi said “Education is one of the most important drivers for ending
poverty and boosting shared prosperity. The Displacement of our people has even dragged our students 50 percent backward, we jointly need to look at that so that the students gradually getting back to school life are also able to learn and develop the skills needed for life and work”. The committee also decried the low quality standard of education in most of Nigeria’s rural areas even as it urged the stakeholders to improve the standard to make graduates employable.
The World Bank’s senior education specialist, Dr. Tunde Adekola said “We have approached the Senate in order to share knowledge and receive support from distinguished Senators to use their position to advocate improved education”. The Committee charged the World Bank to regularly
interface with the senate with adequate information of subsequent work
plan of intervention projects.
The World Bank is one of the largest external education financiers for developing countries.
