Zamfara women commissioner pays assessment visit to Borno College

In an effort to improve welfare and provide free mixed education, the Zamfara state commissioner for women’s affairs and social development, Dr Nafisa Muhammad Maradun, has paid an assessment visit to Borno Elkanami College of Islamic Theology in Maiduguri State.

In a statement issued on Wednesday in Gusau by the information officer of the Zamfara State Ministry for Women Affairs and Social Development, Suleiman Isah hinted to the commissioner, saying the Zamfara state government would look into the possibility of a similar college of Islamic theology in the state.

The statement reads in parts: Zamfara Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development Nafisa Muhammad Maradun visited Maiduguri’s Elkanamy Theology College, where 20 orphans from Zamfara State are enrolled in a free educational support programme under the famous AbdulLateef Zabadne Orphans Foundation in the College.”

“During the visit, the commissioner engaged with the students and expressed satisfaction with the manner in which the college’s proprietor was running the free education program.”.

“Please, we want you to be good ambassadors of our state and read hard to come out with flying colours so that the state would be proud of you,” Dr Nafisa urged the children.

“The Commissioner pledged to let the State Governor, Dr Dauda Lawal Dare, know how well the Zamfara State students were being treated.”.

Earlier on, the college’s proprietor, Sheikh Muhammad Arif AbdulLateef Zabane, who was represented by the Director of the College, Sheikh Zubairu Muhammad Wasagu, expressed gratitude to the Zamfara State Government for sending a high-level delegation to the college to check on the well-being of their children and encouraged other states that benefit from the gesture to borrow a leaf from Zamfara.

The director pledged full collaboration and support to the Zamfara State Theology College if constructed.

He explained that the Elkanamy Theology College currently serves over 7,000 students from many states of the federation and reiterated the college’s commitment to providing free education, food, and other necessities to the Orphanage Foundation in the college.

The Commissioner was accompanied by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Dr. Habibu Yalwa, and some directors in the state.

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