Gov Tambuwal initiates 'Right to Education' bill
The Bill, which is the first in Nigeria, will make education a fundamental human right of all children between 6 and 18.
Governor Aminu Tambuwal
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Tambuwal initiated the Right to Education Bill 2016 to protect the right to education for children between six and 18 years in the state - the first if its kind in Nigeria.
"Sokoto will be the first state in Nigeria to provide right to education, thereby bringing it in comformity with status of fundamental objective and directive principle of state policy under chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999," Sokoto state Commissioner of Justice Commissioner, Suleiman Usman, told news men.
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It was gathered that the bill is one of the major components of the policy on the state of emergency in education declared in Sokoto in December 2015.
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