Buhari Should Declare Emergency In Education – Gbajabiamila

President Muhammadu Buhari has been

called upon to declare a state of

emergency in the education sector.

The call was made yesterday by the vice

chancellor of Crescent University,

Professor Ibrahim Gbajabiamila, at a

press conference heralding the 10th

year anniversary of the institution, in

Abeokuta.

The university administrator noted that

the sector has been neglected for too

long saying the only solution would be

declaration of a state of emergency

because the country cannot continue to

tackle the sector with the same

approach that created the problem.

Flanked by the school registrar, Mr

Zakariyau Ajibola and the head of

department, Mass Communication, Dr

Kola Adesina, he bemoaned the neglect

the sector has suffered for

the past 50years saying funding has

been largely inadequate hence the poor

state of the sector.

The university teacher said for the

country to be competitive again as was

the case in the past, Nigeria must

“emulate countries like Ghana where

there is strict compliance to the UNESCO

directive of allocating 25 per cent of

national income on education.”

Professor Gbajabiamila stressed that

Nigeria is in short supply of about

30,000 PhD holders with many of them

abroad.

He explained that Crescent University

was established as an intervention

institution that would combine

academic excellence with moral

uprightness.

The vice chancellor listed the challenges

facing the institution to include power

generation and access road.