Leadership (Abuja)
Umar Sa'id
12 February 2008
Bauchi — Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State, has promised to provide solar energy electricity supply systems to the rural areas.
He also said that his administration would construct classes in all Qur'anic schools across the state in order to facilitate Qur'anic and Islamic teachings in such schools.
Addressing participants at a 3-day social re-orientation workshop for local Islamic teachers, held at General Hassan Usman Katsina Unity College Bauchi, Yuguda expressed displeasure with the situation of Qur'anic schools in the state which he said form the basis for religious and cultural values abandoned by successive administrations.
Describing the workshop as the first of its kind in the state, Yuguda said due to the recognition his administration accorded the Qur'anic education, a personal assistant was appointed to liaise between the government and the sub-sector.
Yuguda who also dwelt on the significance of Qur'anic education in the society, explained that today's renowned Qur'anic Malams were produced by Tsangaya Qur'anic schools established decades ago.
While stressing the need for the promotion of Qur'anic and Islamic teaching and learning in the society, Yuguda recalled how Islamic states of Malaysia and Indonesia developed within the last 30 years.
The governor told the participants drawn from Bauchi south senatorial district that his administration will continue to preserve and promote religious and cultural values aimed at providing a decent society.
In his contribution at the occasion, an Islamic scholar, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, spoke extensively on the need for the people not to take the law into their hands, as well as the pursuance of both western and Islamic education.
The state commissioner of education, Dr. Musa Mu'azu Badara, observed the present administration's investment in education within the last seven months promising more in education.
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