MASS LITERACY: AJIMOBI ADVOCATES LITERACY BY RADIO
Oyo state Governor Senator Abiola Ajimobi has advocated an improvement on literacy by radio programme to reduce the level of illiteracy in the state.
Governor Ajimobi stated this while receiving the representatives and officials of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO at the Governor’s office Agodi Ibadan.
The Governor explained that majority of the adults within the society who may be ashamed of attending regular classes would prefer education through radio.
He said the state Government would be willing to provide the necessary incentives and logistics to ensure mass literacy stressing that education is the foundation of any development.
Governor Ajimobi also suggested the inclusion of vocational training and skills acquisition in the mass literacy programme to empower the beneficiaries and also improve on the literacy level.
In his earlier remarks the UNITED NATIONS Representative Mr John Edeh emphasize the need for Government at all level to support adult and youth education.
He said in 2012, the federal Government had initiated a programme to revitalize adult and Youth literacy which he noted was to reduce Nigerian Illiteracy level of about 6 million youths and adults.
