Sokoto Govt orders action over low student, teacher attendance

The Sokoto State Government has ordered contiguous measures to code debased attendance among students and teachers successful immoderate schools crossed the state.

The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Ahmad Ladan Ala, gave the directive during the ministry’s Week Four, Day One greeting briefing astatine the Sultan Muhammadu Maccido Institute of Qur’an and General Studies successful Sokoto.

The gathering featured a reappraisal of reports from 2 monitoring teams that visited schools crossed the authorities the erstwhile Wednesday arsenic portion of an ongoing supervision exercise.

The reports showed that respective schools recorded debased pupil attendance, portion immoderate Quality Assurance officers assigned to show the schools were absent during the visits.

The improvement comes amid continued restrictions connected schoolhouse operations successful parts of the authorities owed to information concerns.

DAILY POST had earlier reported that schools remained closed successful astir parts of the state, but those successful Sokoto North and Sokoto South section authorities areas, arsenic good arsenic immoderate schools successful Wamakko, Kware and Dange-Shuni section authorities areas.

Responding to the reports, Ala directed the Director of Quality Assurance, Muhammad Sani Usman, to instrumentality contiguous steps to amended pupil and teacher attendance and guarantee compliance with supervision requirements.

The commissioner further directed the Dir...