Aliyu woos investors in education

Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has lamented inadequate tertiary institutions in Nigeria to meet the daily increase of prospective students seeking admission and called on investors willing to invest in the sector to avail themselves the opportunity provided by his administration’s education policy.

Governor Aliyu argued that only limited spaces are available for Nigerian children to pursue higher education in the country.

He said there was the need for private sector and professional bodies to establish universities and polytechnics to meet the inadequacies across the country.

Aliyu spoke when he received the leadership of the Nigerian Society of Engineers led by the National Vice President, Engineer Margret Oguntala, at Government House, Minna.

He argued that over 1.7 million Nigerian children pass out from secondary schools across the country every year to seek admission into existing higher education but less than 450, 000 eventually get placements in universities and polytechnics.

The shortfall in admission, Governor Aliyu said, has created a deficit of over one million which can be blamed on the high rate of youth restiveness and unemployment which, he said, has attained alarming rate in the country.



He challenged the Nigerian Society of Engineers on the need to establish a Polytechnic or University to address the admission space shortage facing Nigerian undergraduate.

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 N500 million national secretariat of the NSE in Abuja.

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