The Sokoto state government has said that it is establishing 86 libraries across the state to boost reading culture and uplift the education status of the northwest state.
Spokesperson of Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Imam Imam told BBC Hausa Service on Monday that the move was part of the effort of the state to change of the image of the state that was recently ranked as one of the educationally impoverished in Nigeria.
Mr Imam said the state government had already declared a state of emergency in the education sector as part of the process to entrench sound education amongst the state populace.
He said by establishing the libraries, the government is hoping that primary school pupils, their secondary school counterparts and those at the university levels would make good use of them to realise the objectives for which they were established.
The Tambuwal-led administration, he added, is according education a top priority in its renewed effort to raise the status of the state in all areas.
He then appealed to the stakeholders to preserve and utilise the libraries, which he said, would be spread in all parts of the state for even benefits.
This is coming at the time when Kaduna state government is undertaking a mass dismissal of its primary school teachers, in what it described as effort to get rid of unqualified teachers and ensure a sound education for future generations.
