100 Borno schools teachers acquire ICT literacy

Amidst the enduring Boko Haram insurgency, teachers of public post-primary schools in Borno State have begun training in ICT literacy to surmount the challenges of providing quality education to their students.

The state government has said lack of education and its low quality among the youths is among the major problems fuelling the insurgency.

Many in the state believe that the near total lack of education prevalent among the majority of the youths had aided their easy recruitment into the terrorism activities.

To nip these twin problems in the bud, the outgoing government of Kashim Shettima, built over 50 mega schools and classrooms equipped with ICT-based teaching and learning aids in Maiduguri metropolis and sufficiently secure communities to accelerate the revival and development of quality education for the youth.

Accordingly, a Maiduguribased ICT Firm, Digimatics, has trained a selected 100 teachers of these ICTequipped schools on what it described as proper and relevant ICT literacy.

“The six-week training is to complement this efforts of the government, which took the remarkable initiative by installing ICT facilities in schools across Borno State,” Abdullahi Abdulkarim Galtimari, the CEO of Digimatics, told Kanem Trust.

“The intensive training, which commenced on Tuesday, 9th April, is supported by a Lagos-based organisation called Yerwa Foundation,” he said.

The aims of the training programme, according to him, are to acquaint the teachers with the technical skills on how to handle the ICT facilities as well as acquaint them with relevant skills on the application of ICT in teaching.

Galtimari said the first batch of 100 teachers was selected from post-primary schools across the state, which is intended to cover 1,000 teachers.