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       FG, UNESCO train 111 facilitators for adult literacy
       By: Ebenezer Date: August 10, 2013, 9:34 am
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       The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
       Organisation, in collaboration with the National Commission for
       Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, have concluded
       plans to train 111 facilitators to boost adult literacy in Cross
       River State.
       The 111 facilitators are drawn from the 312 adult literacy
       centres spread across the 18 local government areas of the
       state.
       Speaking on the proposed six-day training workshop, Director,
       Cross River State Agency for Adult and Non-Formal Education,
       Mrs. Comfort Effiom, said the 111 candidates wereselected from
       the 214 facilitators to boost their capacity.
       Effiom said that after the capacity building workshop for the
       facilitators, which commences on August 11, the agency would
       embark on a mass enlightenment campaign in rural areas to
       enhance adult literacy ratel at the grassroots.
       She said the 312 centres had since 2007 enrolled 38, 174 adult
       learners, adding that, at the moment, adult literacy in the
       state stood at 80.3 per cent.
       Effiom said, “In Cross River State, the agency, from 2007 to
       date, has improved a lot on adult populace that has never been
       to school,dropouts or neo-illiterates. The present literacy
       level among adults in the state is 80.3per cent, with enrolment
       figure 38, 174 in 312 centres.
       “This six days training workshop for adult literacy
       facilitators, on revitalisation of adult and youth literacy in
       Nigeria, is meant to enhance the capacity of the facilitators
       who would in turn pass on the knowledge to the adult learners.”
       She said the target of the Liyel Imoke administration was to
       completely reduce illiteracy rate in the state before the end of
       the 2015 Millennium Development Goals target.
       Effiom noted that the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Offiong
       Offiong, had, by the approval for the commencement of the
       workshop, reaffirmed the state government’scommitment to its
       policy towards the reduction of adult illiteracy level to two
       per cent.
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