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Education, key to industrialization and development – Buhari

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President Muhammadu Buhari weekend said that education is the key element to the nation’s industrialization and development.

He made the remark at the 44th convocation ceremony of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), also noted that there is a great disconnect between education and industry in Nigeria, adding that the difference between industrialized economy and non-industrialized economy  is education.

Buhari who was represented by the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Isha’aq Oloyode, highlighted his government and its agencies’ interventions in the funding of tertiary institutions, especially the university sub-sector.

He however charged managers of universities to ensure due diligence and probity in the management and disbursement of resources.

“We must not fail to realize that the key elements of the country’s industrialization is education, as the difference between industrialized and non-industrialized economy is education.

“As it is in Nigeria today, there is a great disconnect between education and industry. This should not be so,” he said.

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Buhari’s further assures that actions would be geared towards promoting quality teaching and purposeful research in the areas of comparative advantage and entrenched academic integrity, eliminate poor attitude to work and stamping out of cultism and gangsterism in the nation’s universities.

He gave assurances of his administration’s determination to work assiduously within the limit of its resources to bring about the desired​ transformation in the educational sector.

The President however appealed to well-meaning parents and guardians as well as alumni of the UNIBEN to assist the administrators in creating the right atmosphere conducive for scholarship and academic excellence, noting that that is the only way higher institutions can impact positively on the society.

Earlier, the Chancellor of the University, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II, Emir of Kano, commended the present federal government for providing the enabling environment for enthronement of peace and uninterrupted academic calendar  in the nation’s universities.

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Sanusi also commended the federal government for its sustained interest in the development of the education sector, especially  tertiary education.

He however appealed to the federal government to fulfill all its obligations to the universities staff unions to forestall future disruption of the academic calendar.

The Kano monarch used the ceremony to appeal to parents and guardians to join hands with the university administration in its quest to discourage youths from being used as thugs to rig the 2019 general elections for politicians.

“We are all aware that during the first quarter of next year, elections to various offices will be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). With the benefit of hindsight, we all know that it has become the norm for many politicians, in their desperation to win elections at all cost​, to resort to tertiary institutions to recruit our youths​ to serve as political thugs.

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“Our youths must not allow themselves to be used in illegal activities that endanger their lives and the lives of innocent citizens,” he stated.

In his address, the Vice Chancellor of the University, Faraday Friday Orumwense, disclosed that a total of 11,832 graduates were presented with various degrees and certificates.

Orumwense said a total of 134 bagged first class, 2,122 bagged second class upper, 4,864 second class lower, 1,156 third class, one with pass, 240 with PhD, 2,207 masters, 559 with PGD among others.

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