Education
By Alex Enebeli
Enugu, June 5, 2024 (NAN) The United Nations has rated Gov. Peter Mbah of Enugu State’s investment in education high and recommended the establishment of its 4th headquarters in the state.
Dr Tivlumun Ahure, the President of the ongoing NgEducators International Model United Nations (NGIMUN), Conference, in Enugu, made the recommendation on Wednesday in Enugu.
The NgIMUN is a United Nations structured simulation idea for students. This is an educational strategy in which a particular set of conditions are created or replicated to resemble authentic situations that are possible in real life.
Specifically, the NgEducators International Model UN is an activity for those interested in learning more about how the UN operates.
Students at Secondary Schools and University levels are enlisted to participate in Model UN with the aim to build and maintain strong links between the UN and the student participants.
The theme of the conference is “Development of Education in Developing Countries”.
Ahure, who described what he saw in Enugu education development as “overwhelming and fascinating”, said the organisation tend to have the fourth headquarters of the United Nations in the state.
While explaining that the UN had three headquarters in New York, Vienna and Geneva, Ahure said they would push for fourth United Nations headquarter to be established in Enugu State.
He said, “If you really like that, let me emphasize that in our lifetime, there will be the headquarter of the United Nations cited in Enugu State Nigeria.
“There are documents we will be forwarding to Mbah and that is why we are emphasizing that the state will eventually become another headquarters of the United Nations,” he pledged.
He described what the governor was doing in education as “marvelous and unbelievable”
Ahure told Mbah that the various student representatives he saw at the programme were Nigerian students cut across 36 states of the federation that represented delegations from different countries in the United Nations.
“The student delegates you see are cut across four important committees in the United Nations. The first sitting style represent the sitting procedure in the United Nations at the New York, the middle is the sitting position at Geneva while at the back represent the sitting position at Vienna.
“The delegates in front discuss politics, those in middle discuss Human Rights and the delegates at the back discuss United Nations declarations and Resolutions.
“We have replicated that arrangements here in Enugu but fundamentally, our concern and the central theme has to do with the development of education in the poor and developing countries,” he explained.
On the choice for Enugu State, the president said that after the assessment that was carried out in every region regarded in the developing world, across Central Africa, Sub Saharan Africa, the state was selected.
He said the choice of Enugu State was confirmed and authenticated given that the state was leading destination in the entire global sites of developing countries as it was currently pioneering and leading in educational development.
“We have evidence to show this as we have toured Enugu beginning in September 2023 and the same tour was held in several regions to determine the exact destination to host the programmes.
“The state was eventually selected and has become the official state in a largest country to host the programme in Africa,” Ahure said.
Responding, Gov Mbah said he was emotional, honoured and delighted to host the programme in Enugu as well as the pledge of the organisation to establish its headquarters in the state.
He said the programme would nurture future leaders and imbibe the virtues of public services in them.
“We have United Nations diplomats from Senegal, Sierra-Leone, Congo Brazzaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Conakry, Uganda, Chad, Cameroon, Jordan, Niger, Benin Republic, Côte d’Ivoire and Mali,” he said.
The governor explained that the presence of the students delegates across the 36 states in Nigeria underscored the sure commitment to foster and sustain the high quality education system capable of preparing the youths for the future.
According to him, it is an inspiring conference and opportunity for some hard reality checks in relation to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) particularly as regards to targets for education.
Mbah regretted that almost five years of launching SDGs, African countries committed to the objectives of the universal basic education were still confronted with the challenges of the the school children at a proportion that can ever be tenable.
“We have activated plan to ensure that every child of school age is enrolled, has access to quality education which we are imparting, hence, the smart schools with experiential learning,” he said. (NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
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Edited by Maureen Atuonwu
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