NAPPS CONCLUDES PLANS TO AWARD SCHOLARSHIPS TO 400,000 INDIGENT CHILDREN
As part of efforts to reduce the number of out-of-school children in the country, the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has concluded plans to award scholarships to 400,000 indigent children per year for a period of three years.
The National President of the association, Chief Yomi Otubela, who disclosed this recently, during a virtual briefing to commemorate the 2020 annual NAPPS Day themed ‘Digital Revolution as a Tool in Revamping Nigeria’s Education in Post COVID-19 Era’ said it has already communicated its decision to partner with the Federal Ministry of Education in proffering solution to the nagging problem.
He said “it is the unanimous decision of the national executives of NAPPS that each of about 40,000 proprietors in NAPPS shall oblige to award scholarships to a target of 10 indigent children per year for a consecutive three years.
“It should be noted that our member schools before now had been devoted to giving different forms of scholarships to indigent students, but we want to do more. With this, the association is poised to remove a minimum of about 400,000 children from the streets each year. Within the period, our target is to reduce the rate by four per cent per annum as an addition to government’s efforts.”
Speaking on the theme, he said it is appropriate as it gives an insight into the plethora of challenges school owners have had to confront in the past months which indeed had reshaped the way they do things due to rude interruption on every aspect of life.
Otubela commended the support of the management of School Try (an ICT company) to NAPPS member private schools throughout the federation in the bid for member schools to adopt digitalisation of school processes.
As part of efforts to reduce the number of out-of-school children in the country, the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) has concluded plans to award scholarships to 400,000 indigent children per year for a period of three years.
The National President of the association, Chief Yomi Otubela, who disclosed this recently, during a virtual briefing to commemorate the 2020 annual NAPPS Day themed ‘Digital Revolution as a Tool in Revamping Nigeria’s Education in Post COVID-19 Era’ said it has already communicated its decision to partner with the Federal Ministry of Education in proffering solution to the nagging problem.
He said “it is the unanimous decision of the national executives of NAPPS that each of about 40,000 proprietors in NAPPS shall oblige to award scholarships to a target of 10 indigent children per year for a consecutive three years.
“It should be noted that our member schools before now had been devoted to giving different forms of scholarships to indigent students, but we want to do more. With this, the association is poised to remove a minimum of about 400,000 children from the streets each year. Within the period, our target is to reduce the rate by four per cent per annum as an addition to government’s efforts.”
Speaking on the theme, he said it is appropriate as it gives an insight into the plethora of challenges school owners have had to confront in the past months which indeed had reshaped the way they do things due to rude interruption on every aspect of life.
Otubela commended the support of the management of School Try (an ICT company) to NAPPS member private schools throughout the federation in the bid for member schools to adopt digitalisation of school processes.
Otubela commended the federal government for the recent approval of a special salary scale and new retirement age for teachers, while appealing for the establishment of a special grant and palliative fund for teachers in private schools.
In his remarks, the President of APSON, Dr. Godly Opukeme said the recent disengagement of N-Power beneficiaries by the government calls for concern, as they were assigned to drive innovation for teaching and learning process in basic schools.
He said the federal government should deploy its officials to schools across the country to ascertain if schools have fully reopened in order to monitor the enforcement of COVID-19 protocols.
In his response, Adamu sought to know why there are two groups with the same motives and missions and advised that merging the groups into one formidable force would be in the interest of the government and the proprietors whose major aim is to advance education especially at the basic level.
