The
northern Nigerian state of Sokoto said it has abolished the indigene and
non-indigene policy in the state, a means of discriminating against Nigerians
in their own country.
It said
it has also deleted the nomenclature from the official language and
communication in correspondences within the (civil) service.
The state
Commissioner for Information, Mr Danladi Bako, made these known in a statement
he issued in Sokoto on Saturday.
Sokoto
will be the first state in northern Nigeria to abolish the policy.
Bako also
said in the statement that the State Government commenced free education for
all residents of the state in 2007.
The statement
stressed that the free education policy covered primary and secondary schools
and all residents, irrespective of their state of origin.
It
pointed out that Gov. Aliyu Wamakko had been recognised by many local and
international organisations for his strides in developing the education sector.
“He
always restates his firm belief that the fastest and most assured route to a
nation’s growth and development is through the provision of quality education
from primary to the tertiary level’’, it emphasised.
The
statement revealed that school enrolment had increased by 300 per cent in the
last five years, while registration for JAMB and NECO examinations rose by 500
per cent in the state.
It added that the trend had led to increase in
the number of students in institutions in Nigeria and overseas like Malaysia,
United Arab Emirate, England and Sudan. (PM NEWS)
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