UTME mass failure: PSDN urges students to imbibe reading culture

As nationalist outrage proceed to way the wide nonaccomplishment successful the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the President’s Schools Debate Nigeria has said its activities would beforehand a speechmaking civilization and world excellence among Nigerian students.

PSDN Chairman, Usman Mohammed, stated this astatine a property league connected Friday successful Abuja.

Mohammed announced that the 24th variation of ideology debate, volition clasp successful July this twelvemonth with each nationalist superior and secondary schools successful the state participating from the section authorities level.

He pointed retired that the nationalist statement would besides beforehand harmony and inter-regional unity amongst the younker arsenic good arsenic beforehand antiauthoritarian values astatine an aboriginal age.

With implicit 70 percent of candidates who sat for the conscionable concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scoring little than 200 retired of 400 obtainable scores, immoderate analysts person attributed the origin connected the dying speechmaking civilization among young ones.

Speaking astatine the briefing, Mohammed who was represented by the National Coordinator, Dare Oritu, urged Nigerian students to imbibe the civilization of speechmaking and research the hidden treasures that prevarication successful books.

He said they volition utilized the programme to make students’ applicable skills and assistance successful improving their connection quality successful English Language.

“The President’s Schools Debate Nigeria (PSDN) was approved successful 2001 by erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo arsenic a level for organising schoolhouse statement successful Nigeria and consequent Presidents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, thereafter, endorsed the programme successful accordance with the 2001 support and frankincense sustained it till date.

“The programme has been organised connected an yearly ground since then. It is frankincense our tendency to employment the tenets of the programme to further the Renewed Hope docket of the contiguous government, particularly successful the tract of education, civilization and effectual nationalist patriotism,” helium stated.

The programme, helium said, is implemented successful collaboration with large players successful the Nigerian acquisition assemblage including the Federal Ministry of Education, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and States Universal Basic Education Boards.