By Ahmad Umar
Gombe (Nigeria) — National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Yobe State Chapter in Northeast Nigeria, has described the increasing proliferation of unregistered private schools, as a great challenge to the advancement of education in the State.
Chairman of Potiskum Local Government Chapter of NAPPS, Usman Alhaji Saleh stated this while speaking with Journalists shortly after the 2017 Private Schools Day celebration held at Chiroma Ibrahim School, Potiskum.
“You know we are operating on democracy, everyone feels free to do what he likes without severe depression, we initiated a moves of carrying everybody along for the development of the education but they resist.
The meeting brewed a communique which part of it reads ‘government should check unnecessary establishments of private schools so as to provide quality education to the teeming populace ‘.
“We have over 51 private schools here in Potiskum town are faced with financial constraints, yet we are not deterred from providing services to compliment the efforts of the State Government
“As am speaking to you now, we are lacking access to grants and loans from the government. We are not able to access loans from Banks simply because most of the private schools do not have government recognition to operate”, he said.
Saleh, blamed the Parents for their inability to pay their Children’s school fees timely, adding that they forgetting that it’s from that school fees that was sustain the routine services, in the schools
The NAPPS Chairman further appealed to Yobe State government to consider them in accessing SME grants.
