{"id":349869,"date":"2011-03-30T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/%e2%80%9980-percent-of-nigerian-students-cannot-read-properly%e2%80%99\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:00:33","slug":"80-percent-of-nigerian-students-cannot-read-properly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/80-percent-of-nigerian-students-cannot-read-properly\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201980 percent of Nigerian students cannot read properly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"53.759398496241\">\n<p><strong>By JIMITOTA ONOYUME<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0PORT HARCOURT -ABOUT eighty percent\u00a0 of Nigerian students\u00a0cannot read properly, says Mrs Winihim Jemide, Executive Director, On boarding Impact Consultancy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Jemide\u00a0who said the finding was the outcome of a recent research conducted round the country also spoke of efforts to address the challenge.\u00a0Already according to her, forty teachers drawn from schools in Rivers state are being trained on tools for quick reading skills.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Addressing the teachers at the four-day training workshop on\u00a0quick reading skills in Port Harcourt, she said the whole idea of the workshop was to\u00a0 re-invent the reading culture among pupils and youths in the country.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>She said the Quick Reading training session for the teachers would equip them with the needed tools to fast track reading ability among their students. She added that\u00a0teachers would in turn go to their various local government and communities to teach other teachers on the Quick reading approach to enhance reading culture.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cResearch shows that 80 percent of Nigerian students are not reading properly. The quick reading programme is to provide teachers with tools to teach reading.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cWe are on the back of Mr President on this. The foundation was born as a result of the poor performance in the last NECO exam. The President sees the state education has brought him and he wants others to get there too. \u201c<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In their separate comments, programme Manager, Bring Back the Book Foundation,Mr Weyinmi Jemide,\u00a0 expressed the hope that this new initiative of President Goodluck Jonathan would stimulate a healthy revival in reading.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Also speaking, Rivers State Commissioner for Education , Dame Alice Lawrence Nemi, hailed the project saying\u00a0she was not surprised that the state was chosen for its pilot scheme because of steps so far taken by the Rivers state governor to shore up quality of education all over the state.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that President Jonathan recently launched the bring back the book project after it was discovered that\u00a0 the reading culture had dropped among youths in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<p>Please enable JavaScript to view the <a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\/?ref_noscript=vanguardngr\">comments powered by Disqus.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/disqus.com\">blog comments powered by <\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Link:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/03\/80-percent-nigerian-students-cannot-read-properly\/\" title=\"\u201980 percent of Nigerian students cannot read properly\u2019\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201980 percent of Nigerian students cannot read properly\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By JIMITOTA ONOYUME \u00a0 \u00a0PORT HARCOURT -ABOUT eighty percent\u00a0 of Nigerian students\u00a0cannot read properly, says Mrs Winihim Jemide, Executive Director, On boarding Impact Consultancy.\u00a0 Mrs Jemide\u00a0who said the finding was the outcome of a recent research conducted round the country also spoke of efforts to address the challenge.\u00a0Already according to her, forty teachers drawn from schools in Rivers state are being trained on tools for quick reading skills.\u00a0 \u00a0 Addressing the teachers at the four-day training workshop on\u00a0quick reading skills in Port Harcourt, she said the whole idea of the workshop was to\u00a0 re-invent the reading culture among pupils and youths in the country. \u00a0 She said the Quick Reading training session for the teachers would equip them with the needed tools to fast track reading ability among their students. She added that\u00a0teachers would in turn go to their various local government and communities to teach other teachers on the Quick reading approach to enhance reading culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u201980 percent of Nigerian students cannot read properly\u2019 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/80-percent-of-nigerian-students-cannot-read-properly\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"\u201980 percent of Nigerian students cannot read properly\u2019 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By JIMITOTA ONOYUME \u00a0 \u00a0PORT HARCOURT -ABOUT eighty percent\u00a0 of Nigerian students\u00a0cannot read properly, says Mrs Winihim Jemide, Executive Director, On boarding Impact Consultancy.\u00a0 Mrs Jemide\u00a0who said the finding was the outcome of a recent research conducted round the country also spoke of efforts to address the challenge.\u00a0Already according to her, forty teachers drawn from schools in Rivers state are being trained on tools for quick reading skills.\u00a0 \u00a0 Addressing the teachers at the four-day training workshop on\u00a0quick reading skills in Port Harcourt, she said the whole idea of the workshop was to\u00a0 re-invent the reading culture among pupils and youths in the country. \u00a0 She said the Quick Reading training session for the teachers would equip them with the needed tools to fast track reading ability among their students. 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