NBAIS plans expansion of schools participation in examinations – Prof Shafi’u Abdullahi

By Abdullahi Kano

The Registrar, National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) professor Shafi’u Abdullahi says the board has planned to increase the number of schools attending their examinations across the country.
professor Shafiu Abdullahi stated this at a two-day workshop on Corporate Communication and Strategic Information Management for NBAIS officers in Abuja.
The workshop was organized in collaboration with Clanfield Communications Limited.
“Now we have not less than 1600 schools across the country sitting for our examinations and same time we achieved to convince the government to give us recognition, approval to operate nationally,’’ he said.
He said that the board had many plans to expand the activities its activities nationwide.
On the workshop, the registrar said it was very important to all the staff, adding that it was important because it was specifically information technology.
“We have workers on ICT, most of them are new, you know, the board started new recently. So, we need to educate our people on that area, that is why we planned the workshop and we will soon have similar workshop,’’ he said.
On the board’s achievements, Abdullahi said was to have a unique and national curriculum for Arabic and Islamic schools.

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“Secondly, we are able to mobilised even government to establish such institutions,’’ he said.
Speaking, Dr Mainasara Umar, who spoke on civil service, said the ultimate objective was to improve on service delivery.
“Nigeria now more than any other time before needs development as far a service delivery is concern especially coming out from COVID pandemic which affected and retarded the tempo of development in government generally.
“So, it is time now when we should apply technological innovation in order to merely bridge the gap we have gotten as a result of COVID-19 influx.
“The whole world is moving towards e-governance, the whole world is moving towards application of modern technology to overcome one problem or the other in order to add value to governance,” he said.
Umar said as far as governance was concern, section 14 of the Nigerian Constitution is all about service to the people.
“We should not consider Nigeria as an island, in other words we should look at it as global best practices which is going all over the world by using the applications in government activities,’’ he said.