KWHA canvasses adequate funding for state tertiary institutions

Date: 2017-11-08

The Kwara State House of Assembly has called on the state government to resuscitate subventions to its tertiary institutions of learning and ensure prompt payment of teachers salaries to enhance quality of education in the state.

The House made the resolution, while considering a Motion titled "Sustaining the Educational Friendly Environment in Kwara State" raised by a member representing Share/Oke-Ode Constituency, Hon Jimoh Akanni Abdul Rahman.

Reading the resolutions of the legislature, the Deputy Speaker, Elder Matthew Okedare, who presided over the Tuesday's sitting, said the need became imperative, to further enhance the wellbeing of the state owned tertiary institutions and teachers of primary and post primary schools, in order to consolidate on the impressive rankings of universities in the state.

The House also urged the state government to increase its allocation to the education sector, in the 2018 budget proposal, to meet the UNESCO's requirement of 26% of budgetary allocations, to improve its achievements in the education sector.

The House commended the state government, for creating enabling environment for schools and universities in the State, to thrive. Hon Abdul Rahman, who is the Chairman House Committee on Education and Human Capital Development, had while raising the motion, disclosed that the recent ranking of universities in Nigeria, by the National University Commission, rated University of Ilorin Fifth, Landmark University Omu-Aran 24th, Abubakar Sola Saraki University Molete 34th, and Al Hikmah University 51th out of 111 ranked universities in Nigeria.

He added that 55% and 64% of Candidates, who sat for West Africa Examination Council, from Kwara state, had 5 credits, including English Language and Mathematics, in 2016 and 2017 respectively and attributed the feat, to the enabling environment created by the state government.

Other members who spoke on the Motion, eulogised the state government, for the feat and urged it, to replicate similar achievements in its Polytechnic and Colleges of Education, to ensure all round development in the education sector.

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Diagnostic Centre     Temi Kolawole     Sobi Specialist Hospital     Funmilayo Oniwa     Simeon Ajibola     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Sanusi Abubakar     Ijagbo Health Centre     Rebecca Bake     Bukola Ajikobi     Elerinjare     Ahmed Alhasssan     Oluwatoyin Lukman     Hassan Saliu     John Obuh     Jumoke Monsura Gafar     Isaac Gbenle     Ahmad Lawan     Jalala     Obayomi Azeez     Oladimeji Thompson     Illyasu Abdullahi     Shururat Olatinwo     Mashood Abdulrafiu Agboola     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Olabimpe Olani     Wahab Agbaje     Adamu Ibrahim Sabi     Wasiu Onidugbe     Buari Edun     Prince Bola Ajibola     Zulu Gambari     Olusegun Adeniyi     Moronfoye     Ayobami Seriki     Iponrin     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Gbugbu International Market     Kisira     Oba Mogaji Abdulkadir     Yakubu Danladi     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Ile Arugbo     Shonga Farm Project     CACOVID     KFA     2023 Elections     Pakata     Millennium Development Goals     Senior Special Assistant On Student Affairs     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Allocation     Kwara State Internal Revenue Service     Valsolar Consortium     Kwara State Infrastructure Development Fund     11th Galadima     Rotimi Samuel Olujide     Tsaragi/Share     Bayo Ojo     Students Union Government     Ahman Patigi     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Presidential Election     Yusuf Ali     Arik     Taofeek Ibraheem     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Funmi Salau     Durosinlohun Atiku     Gafaru Olayiwola Olorisade     Ilorin International Airport     Umar Bayo Abdulwahab     Alfa Yahaya Road     ER-KANG Mining Nigeria Company Limited     Marufat Oladosu     Tinubu Legacy Forum    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Halimat Yusuf     Aliyu Adebayo     Bola Iyabo Ibiyeye Adisa     Issa Baba     Ahmad Ali     EndSARS     IHS     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Buari Edun     Hijaab     Isiaka Gold     NFAI     Kwara State Governor     Talaka Parapo     Omu Aran     Ahmad Uthman     Students Union Government     Alfa Modibbo Belgore     Olugbense     Adisa Logun     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Afolayan     Baba Isale     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Islamic Development Bank     Yusuf Olaolu Ali     Oniwasi Agbaye     KFA     Ilorin Central Mosque     COVID-19 Palliatives     Majlis For Sadakah, Zakat And Waqf     Emir Of Yashikira     Lateef Alagbonsi     KWASSIP     Muazam Nayaya     Arandun     Kwara Pdp     Moses Salami     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Ibrahim Issa Jetti     Kwara Restoration Project     Mahee Abdulkadir     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Albert Ogunsola     Jimba Babatunde     Yusuf Ibitokun Sherifat     Yoruba     Yusuf Ali     Sulaiman Gado     Minister     General Hospital     Alanamu     Yusuf Arowosaye     Kulende     Sherif Shagaya     Mahmud Ayinla Giwa     Tuesday Assayomo     Gwanara     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Isiaka Danmeromu     Lawan     Frootify     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Muslim Cementary     Yusuf Mubarak     Tricycle Owners Association Of Nigeria     IEDPU     Bello Oyedepo     Ariyo     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Shuaibu Yaman     Mukhtar Shagaya     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Oniyangi     KWTV     Joseph Bamigboye     Olusin Of Ijara Isin