Ogun Govt intensifies campaign to tackle illiteracy, out-of-school menace

In its bid to promote wide literacy among the citizens and to tackle retired of schoolhouse challenges successful Ogun State, the Governor Dapo Abiodun administration, done the Agency for Mass and Lifelong Education, has taken its run against illiteracy to marketplace places and centrifugal parks successful the state.

The run was held astatine Remo North, Yewa North and Ijebu-East Local Government Areas of the state.

Speaking during the sensitisation drive, the manager successful the agency, Abosede Odulesi, encouraged radical that had missed the accidental of attending schoolhouse to instrumentality the vantage of the escaped big literacy and skills acquisition inaugural of the government.

She urged them to enroll astatine the centre person to their environment, saying textbooks and different penning materials would beryllium disposable astatine nary cost.

Odulesi asserted that acquisition remained a almighty instrumentality for idiosyncratic and socio-economic improvement to execute greatness successful life, adding that radical who could work and constitute would person their lives transformed.

She besides disclosed that authorities had provided opportunities for antithetic vocations, specified arsenic garment making, hairsbreadth dressing, catering and hospitality, footwear making, cosmetology, and barbing, among others, for radical who could beryllium funny to larn 1 commercialized oregon the other.