By Kemi Kasumu, General Editor
A key component of Future Assured Programme was launched Thursday by Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, her spokesman Suleiman Haruna has said.
Haruna said this in a statement on Thursday copy of which was sent to The DEFENDER.
He said, “The component tagged Youth Education Empowerment Programme (YEEP) is meant to intervene in the area of educational support to increase for youths, the chances of entry into tertiary institutions of learning. The launch was held at Aliyu Mustafa College, Yola, on Thursday 25th May, 2017.”
Speaking at the occasion, Mrs Buhari said due to the large number of youths struggling to transit from secondary to tertiary institutions, she always nurtured the hope of assisting them through organizing tutorial classes, which YEEP had now been activated to organize for WAEC, NECO, NABTEB and JAMB.
The success of this pilot, she said, will encourage her to scale-up nationwide.
According to her, the tutorial classes for these examinations, YEEP also trains youths to develop writing, communication and public speaking skills.
She appealed to the beneficiaries to utilize their new knowledge to advance the course of their lives and that of their country.
She said, “I wish to also appeal to well-meaning Nigerians to note the need to come in strongly and support the scale-up of such humanitarian projects across the country.”
National Coordinator of Future Assured, Dr. Kamal Muhammad, said the tutorial classes were aimed at improving the performance of enrollees in their O-level examinations by providing the needed understanding, skills and techniques to approach the qualifying examinations, thereby reducing anxiety and increasing confidence in the beneficiaries.
Wife of the Governor of Adamawa State, Mrs Maryam Muhammad Bindow, saw YEEP as a realization of “our dream of quality education”, saying, “no nation develops higher than the level of the education of its people.”
Secretary to the Adamawa State Government, Dr. Umar Bindir, representing the Governor, acknowledged the challenge of education in the state and said the governor had placed basic education under state of emergency, adding that he was confident that Mrs Buhari’s YEEP project would reduce the burdennin the area of focus.
Four of the beneficiaries spoke at the event, highlighting the remarkable progress they had made through YEEP after waiting for many years to gain admission into tertiary institutions.
Highlights of the occasion included the presentation of science laboratory equipment for the use of science beneficiaries.
