FG expresses commitment to action on foundational learning

By Maryam Abeeb

The Federal Government of Nigeria has agreed to commitment to Action on Foundational Learning.
On behalf of the government, the Federal Ministry of Education made the endorsement as part of the World bank summit on FOUNDATIONAL LEARNING in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Minsiter of State for Education, Rt Hon Goodluck Nanah Opiah who is attending the event in the West African country, in a statement stated that the commitment to action is to ensure Foundational Learning serve as key process to Transform education.
According to the Minister, “this endorsement is underscored by Nigeria’s commitment to continue to ensure that foundational learning is central to enhancing social mobility and tackling intergenerational poverty and marginalization.
“Nigeria has expanded and will continue to expand the use of technology and innovation to provide out-of- the-box solutions as the central pillar of educational transformation goal”
The statement from the minister further states that “as we ensure that every child can read by the age 10 and galvanise public-private partnership to scale up foundational learning to hard-to reach areas, we would strengthen pro-poor/pro-family business promises for creating conducive learning environments in homes”
The statement adds that “the working level point of contact would be the Director, Basic Education, Dr (Mrs) Folake Olatunji-David, who can be reached at folatunjidavid@gmail.com.
It would be recalled that Rt Hon Opiah jetted into Sierra Leone early this week to be part of the on-going program where Ministers of Education from various parts of Africa are participants.