By Soni Daniel

With only less than a year to the 2015 target of the Millennium Development Goals, the South-South states, yesterday, took time off in Abuja to compare notes on what they had been dong in the area of education with a view to meeting the target set by the United Nations.

The six states, which met on the sidelines of the two-day MDG summit at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja, did not only review the actions plans outlined in the MDG with regard to educational attainment but also examine what they needed to do to move the standards of education a notch higher.

The representatives of governors of Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta and Edo, met in Abuja for over two hours during which they compared notes on what each state was doing to advance the cause of education and also took notes of what was needed to be done in the months ahead.

In a lead presentation, Prof Edem Ayara from Cross River State drew the attention of the states to the need for them to keep proper records of students who dropped from school after being enrolled as a result of unresolved challenges forcing them to withdraw or pay partial attention to school.

Ayara cautioned that if the MDG in education must be met, serious attention must be paid by the respective states in the region to the institution of good policies and enforcement of same in order to propel the system to success.