Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State says he is preoccupied with the task of making future elite of children of the poor.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came prepared, and I\u2019m focused,\u201d the governor said during an interaction with journalists at the Government House in the state capital, Yola, adding, \u201cI can\u2019t shift from making future elite of children of the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n
He reiterated that he works in consciousness of the poor who form the chunk of society. \u201cI know where it pinches the masses and that\u2019s where I\u2019m working,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n
He said his desire to see to the liberation of the masses informs his investment in education.<\/p>\n
\u201cI inherited an administration that was not buying even chalk for class work in our schools,\u201d he said, adding that the situation has since changed for the desired.<\/p>\n
He recalled that the government that preceded his own did not access Universal Basic Education (UBE) fund from the federal government because the government of that time did not pay its counterpart contribution that would have enabled it access the fund, but that he had since paid the state\u2019s counterpart contributions up to last year and has subsequently accessed the fund with which huge development projects had been executed in schools across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State says he is preoccupied with the task of making future elite of children of the poor. \u201cI came prepared, and I\u2019m focused,\u201d the governor said during an interaction with journalists at the Government House in the state capital, Yola, adding, \u201cI can\u2019t shift from making future elite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[128,1464,1001],"class_list":["post-25007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adamawa-state","tag-ahmadu-fintiri","tag-federal-government"],"yoast_head":"\n