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Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education has called for more partnerships with local and international organisations to enhance proper funding and innovation in entrepreneurship for tertiary institutions, particularly universities.
Adamu, made the call in a paper titled, “Restructuring the Nigeria Tertiary Education System to Address the 21st Century Funding Challenges”, delivered at the 2nd Founder’s day of the Edo University Iyamho, Etsako West local government area of Edo state.
The minister who was represented by Jacob Ehiorobo, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Administration, University of Benin commended the university’s management for becoming 3rd best university in Nigeria.
He however, called on Tertiary Education Trust Fund (Tetfund) to contribute to the developmental project of the university.
Shaibu A. Ibrahim, National President of Political Science Association of Nigeria and chairman Kogi State Local Government Service Commission presented a paper Titled “Political Engineering and the Dynamics of Change: the Nigeria Experience” , emphasised the importance of engineering in developing Nigerian economy.
In his remark, Edo state governor, Godwin Obaseki represented by his deputy, Philip Shaibu, commended the management of the institution for the effective expenditures of the resources.
Obaseki, who also commended the school for the feats recorded within the few yet as in existence, assured of more support to the management of the university just as he advised the students to be of good behavior.
Earlier, the Acting Vice-Chancellor, Emmanuel Aluyor, said the University is the first and only Medical Training institutions in Nigeria with an Anatomage Table which has just been commissioned.
Aluyor, explained that Anatomage Table is the most technologically advanced anatomy visualisation system in the world for anatomy education which has been adopted by many of the world’s leading medical schools.
He also disclosed that the University is one of four Medical Training institutions in Nigeria with power laboratory system for teaching Physiology and Pharmacology adding that the clinical skills laboratory when fully operational, will compete with other leading medical schools in the continent.
The Vice-Chancellor, who said the institution played premium on staff development, posited that academic staff has been sponsored to local and international conferences and workshops as well as engaging in organizing training workshops for academic staff, pad agony, research and other related issues.
He further disclosed that proactive measures has been put in place for effective communication to resolve any issues that may seem to be disagreement either from the students or staff.
He also added that the management has negotiated with banks to construct Automated Teller Machine (ATM) in the university campus to avoid motorbike accident along the express way to Auchi for banking transaction.
IDRIS UMAR MOMOH, Benin
