By Bashir Mohammed Kano
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has said that the country would no longer be a safe haven for the proliferation of illegal institutions running sub-standard academic courses all over the country. Speaking at the 62nd National Council on Education (NCE) yesterday, Adamu said the education sector was in dire need of total reforms as a result of the rot that had permeated the system. He added that the goal of achieving the target for such reforms in the year 20-30 could only be achieved by sincerity of purpose on the part of the stakeholders involved. Adamu said “Nigeria as a developing country is poised to make considerable headway in competing with its counterparts all over the globe,” affi rming that the formulation of coherent and credible education policy lies at the feat labour unions, nongovernmental organisations, civil society groups and the international development partners.
He said the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was concerned about rejuvenating the education sector for greater result, adding that the establishment of Teachers Registration Council was aimed at restoring public confi dence that only qualifi ed teachers were given the nod to teach in public schools. Th e minister said the responsibility of funding and sustaining the education sector was enormous and required a concerted eff ort to restore its lost glory, stressing that the resolutions adopted at the 62nd Education Council was a major step towards handling such a responsibility creditably well. Declaring the meeting open, Kano state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, said his administration had placed high priority on education in the state knowing that education was the bedrock of any society and that teachers in the state had been supported to attain the height of excellence through the introduction of various programmes.
He said the issue of service delivery was too important to be ignored, especially now that his administration had taken proactive measures to reposition the education sector on a promising pedestal. According to him, hundreds of indigenes of the state have been sponsored to continue with their academic programmes. Ganduje, who was represented by his Deputy, Prof. Hafi z Abubakar, said the decision taken to host the summit by the state government was informed by the need to prove to everyone that the state had been one of the leading pace-setters in the quest to make the education sector ticking
