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By Abdullahi Shugaba
Dutse, Jan. 25, 2016 (NAN) Alhaji Haladu Ado, the Executive Secretary, Jigawa Science and Technical Schools Board, on Wednesday, said the board admitted 2,223 students in 2016 to read science and technical subjects in secondary schools.
Ado told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Dutse that out of the number, 1,514 were males and 709 were females.
He said there were 11 science and technical schools spread across the three senatorial districts of state under the board.
According to him, the idea is to encourage students to read science and technical
subjects to produce more engineers and other disciplines and the manpower that will serve the state.
The scribe announced that the Kafin Hausa Science School in Gumel represented the state in competitions at the zonal and national levels where it won many medals.
He said there were qualified teachers in the science and technical schools across the state, pointing out that state government promised to recruit more teachers this year.
He noted that the board would not compromise standards and that students from science and technical schools always distinguished themselves in SSCE, NECO and NABTECT examinations. (NAN)
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Edited by Hadiza Mohammed-Aliyu