Ex-VC gives crucial advice to President Buhari, highlights how FG can revive education sector

- A former vice chancellor of Covenant University said President Muhammadu Buhari should lay focus on education

- Prof. Charles Ayo disclosed that access to quality education had been the major challenge hindering the country

- The former VC also noted that there is a need to declare state of emergency in the education sector

Prof. Charles Ayo, a former vice chancellor of Covenant University, Ota, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to focus on creating greater access to quality education in the country during his second term in office.

Ayo gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ota on Tuesday, March 19.

He said that access to quality education had been the major challenge hindering the country from achieving meaningful development.

The VC said: “There is the need to declare a state of emergency in the education sector because out-of school children have increased.''

According to Ayo, the high figure of out of school children, particularly in the northern part of the country, could be attributable to the youth restiveness in the region.

The don said that the county’s future appeared bleak except the Federal Government devoted the required attention needed for the education sector to thrive.

Ayo also said that increasing annual budget for education without the requisite change in the peoples’ attitude and mindsets, most importantly on corruption, would not achieve any desirable impact.

The former vice chancellor further said that the only way the federal government could drive sustainable development was to make education a central point for national development.

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Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara state on Monday, March 18, announced that the state owned university would soon commence admission of pioneer students in 2019.

Yari, who made the announcement at the presentation of the 2019 appropriation proposal said, the development followed the registration of the state university by the National Universities Commission (NUC).

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