Children’s Day: They are bearers of the nation’s torch — Tinubu

• He urged parents to pass down values like honesty, modesty, hard work, and charity to children.
• He said the administration is committed to expanding access to qualitative education and ensuring a safe learning environment. 

President Bola Tinubu has said he wished that parents would begin to reinforce the family unit where the sacred values of honesty, modesty, hard work and charity are passed down to children who are the shining lights of the future.

In a statement by Ajuri Ngelale, the presidential spokesperson on Monday, Tinubu described Nigeria’s children as the bearers of the nation’s torch into the future.

He said society is a reflection of each family unit as a collective, urging the preservation of those principles that make us a wholesome, nurturing, and thriving nation.

The President, while rejoicing with parents, guardians, and families across the nation, said his administration is sparing no effort in ensuring that Nigerian children have a solid footing for the realisation of their dreams.

He said with increased investments in education and the recent overhauling of the entire education system to provide both human and material resources for learning, as well as the efforts of the National Commission for Almajiri and Out-of-School Children Education to get the nation’s precious gifts off the streets, his administration will continue to expand access to qualitative education for all Nigerians.

The President also reassured the nation of his commitment to ensuring a safe and secure ambience of learning for the children while improving the standard of education.

” I want to call for a reinforcement of the family unit as a place where the sacred values of honesty, modesty, hard work and charity are passed down to the shining lights of tomorrow,”