Education Capacity Building Workshop Holds In Jos
BY CHAMBERLAIN ODEY, JOS – A three-day capacity building workshop for teachers, guidance and counselors from basic education schools in the North Central Zone of Nigeria has opened in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
The training, organized by SDGs/National Teachers Institute (NTI), is being attended by head teachers, health teachers, guidance and counselors from Islamic and Christian Religious institutions, teachers in basic education schools from all the seven states that make up the zone.
With the theme, “Quality Teachers, Healthy Nation”, the training is holding at the Bishop’s Court, Pastoral Centrer, Near Ande Hospital, Off JD Gomwalk Road, Jos, Plateau State.
Speaking at the session, a board member of a faith based HIV initiative/core facilitator, North Central zone, Dr. Mrs. Rhoda Udanyi, said that the aim of the programme is to address societal ills from the morality point of view especially in areas of the scourge of the HIV/Aids and Covid-19 pandemic.
She said the programme also avails them opportunities to talk to the participants on the dangers of having sex outside marriage among other issues, stressing the need for participants to use the knowledge acquired during the training to better the lot of the society at large.
Also speaking, the zonal administrative officer, Cecilia Peter, expressed satisfaction with the level of cooperation exhibited by participants and encouraged the sponsors to release more funds to enable them reach out to the larger society.
The participants, Comfort N. Kumzwam, Hauwa Jubril, Baba Yemi, and the NTI Coordinator, Plateau State, Suleiman Musa, all expressed joy over the opportunities provided them to acquire fresh knowledge and promised to judiciously use it to better the lot of the society.
