Governor Aliyu Bemoans Lack Of Enough Higher Education Spaces For Nigerian Students

 
Niger state Governor Dr Muazu Babangida Aliyu has decried the limited spaces available for Nigerians children to pursue higher education in the country saying that there is the need for the private sector and professional bodies to establish universities and polytechnics in different parts of the country
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Aliyu who stated this in Minna on Wednesday when he received the leadership of the Nigerian Society of Engineers led by the National Vice President of the organization Mrs Margret Oguntala at Government house.

He said that 1.7m Nigerian children pass out from the primary schools across the country every year and seek admission for higher education but less than 450,000 eventually get placement in universities and Polytechnics.

The situation he said has created a deficit of over 1m which can be blamed on the high rate of youth restiveness and unemployment that has attained an alarming rates in the country.

He therefore challenged the Nigerian Society of Engineers to establish a Polytechnic or University to address the admission space shortage facing the country.

‘Nigeria lack enough engineers we need our children in schools especially professional schools’.

He also said that the era of student pursuing courses in liberal arts had passed advising that for Nigeria to achieve scientific breakthrough and join the highly developed countries of the world students should take interest in science related and professional courses.

The argued that this is the only way that unemployment will be reduced as the graduate will be easily employable or can employ himself.

 He promised to assist the NSE in virtually all the projects lined up for the remaining part of the year and the national conference slated for 2017 pointing out that government will sponsor all its certified engineers to participate in the Abuja conference.
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Since government is a continuum Aliyu said that the process towards making the state to bid for the hosting of the 2017 National Conference of the NSE by the Niger state chapter of the organization will start ‘from now’.

Earlier the Vice President of the NSE Mrs Margret Oguntala had solicited the assistance of the Niger state Government and other governments in the country for the completion of the N500m national secretariat of the NSE in Abuja.

Mrs Oguntala used the occasion to also invite the Governor and members of his cabinet to the quarterly dinner of the NSE which will hold in Abuja soon.

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