Hope for Uni students as FG Directs Implementation Of Report On Varsities The federal government has approved the implementation of the recommendations of the government’s committee on repositioning federal and state universities. President Goodluck Jonathan said this on Monday in Lafia when he inaugurated Tanko Al-makura (TAAL) Model School. The committee was set up following the advice by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on improvement of the citadel of knowledge. ``Billions of naira have been made available to the Federal Ministry of Education for immediate implementation of the recommendations of the committee,” he said. The president, represented by the Vice President Namadi Sambo, said the Federal Ministry of Education had been directed to commence the full implementation the recommendations of the committee. Jonathan said efforts would not be spared in ensuring that every child was in school, adding that with 9.5 million children, the country had the highest number of children without access to basic education in Africa. He pledged that the federal government would continue to provide support to Nasarawa State Government’s efforts to provide quality education through the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). Earlier, Gov. Umaru Tanko Almakura had noted that ``this is the first time in many years that the president of our great nation would commission any project in the state.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:42:31 +0000
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