AMAECHI ADVISES GOVERNORS TO TAKE EDUCATION SERIOUSLY

Read 4641 times 11 April 2014

Rotimi-Amaechi-1The Governor of Rivers State, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, has advised all Governors in the country to take education seriously. Amaechi gave this advice while delivering a lecture titled, “Higher Education and Good Governance in Nigeria: The way Forward” at the Second Osun State University Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, held at the University Auditorium, main campus in Osogbo.

Amaechi urged other Governors to emulate the school feeding programme of Osun (O Meal), saying the programme would reduce the number of out-of-school children in the country. He said he was amazed with the level of infrastructural development of Aregbesola’s government in the State of Osun. According to Amaechi: “Every serious Governor should take education seriously, though it is common for most Governors to want to concentrate on road construction because people will praise them. It is not enough to construct roads alone. The issue of his school feeding programme deserves applause and every other state must emulate it because it will drastically reduce the number of out-of-school children which is rampant in Nigeria.

While speaking on the commitment of his administration to basic education, the Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Aregbesola said: "Basic education is not negotiable, that is why we are doing what we are doing on basic education considering the neglect that the sector had suffered, it is our concern to give it necessary quality."

Aregbesola then expressed hope that UNIOSUN would sustain the tradition of academic excellence tailored towards social relevance.

 

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