In the last six months, Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, a professor of English (Comparative Literature Stress), a novelist, a poet, a dramatist, an editor, a humanitarian and a girl-child activist, has been serving as the Anambra State Commissioner for Education. Over the years, she has developed a passion for proper education and development of children. Henry Akubuiro chatted with her recently at the state capital, Akwa, where she debunked the notion of education being a scam, as well as shedding light on some educational development issues on her table. She also discussed her writings.
It’s still the early days of your tenure as the Anambra State Commissioner for Education under the new governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo administration in Anambra where you serve as the Commissioner for Education, how has it been?
We hit the ground running, and there are a lot of changes. We have been into teachers’ recruitment and we have so many plans lined up. We have this town and gown relationship, which we are bridging. We are bringing philanthropists to come develop and recover the community schools that have gone moribund. In fact, we are trying to recover and turn our community schools into smart schools.
Everything now is technology, so we want to run the educational space with technology. We have a platform where, if you want to get at a particular child, you simply get to the education platform, get to the school, and there is the child. It’s a system we are developing, which will…
