Niger Gov Inaugurates University of Education Implementation Committee

Laleye Dipo in Minna

The Niger State Governor, Mr. Mohammed Umaru Bago, has inaugurated an implementation committee for the new Niger State University of Education.

The university was approved by the federal government last month.

The committee is headed by a former Secretary to the State Government, Professor Mohammed Kuta Yahaya.

Governor Bago directed the Ministry of Budget and Planning to make provision for N20 billion in the states 2024 budget for the operations of the new university.

He told the committee to ensure that the university should take off on a very solid foundation, adding that all forms of bureaucracy should be avoided.

Bago disclosed that the university would operate side by side with the College of Education.

He said: “The take-off of the University of Education will not prevent the College of Education (COE) Minna, from running its programmes.The COE will be operating under the university.”

He emphasised his administration’s plan to make the state an education hub, disclosing that the College of Agriculture Mokwa would soon be upgraded to a University of Agriculture while a University of Energy and Renewable Energy would be established in Shiroro and that of Medicine in Suleja.

Yahaya appreciated the governor for finding the members of the implementation committee worthy to serve and promised that they would work diligently to ensure that the university would become one of the best in the country.Professor Yahaya is of the Department of Agriculture, University of Ibadan Oyo state before his appointment.