The Sahara Schooling Improvement Initiative (SEDI), has mentioned that Nigeria’s schooling sector has witnessed optimistic turnaround below the management of the Minister of Schooling, Professor Tahir Mamman.
The group, consisting of seasoned students and important minds, acknowledged this in an announcement made out there to journalists on Friday by its Govt Director, Prince Arthur Nwakanma.
The assertion reads in components: “in our periodic assessments primarily based on leading edge analysis and UNESCO key efficiency index of the schooling sector in chosen African nations, together with Nigeria, our staff of consultants and stakeholders has famous important achievements inside a remarkably quick interval since your appointment.
“Due to this fact, we wish to specific our honest commendation for the excellent efficiency noticed in Nigeria’s schooling sector below your management because the Minister of Schooling of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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“The challenges and disharmony that plagued the schooling sector, exemplified by the eight-month strike of the Tutorial Employees Union of Universities (ASUU) in the course of the earlier administration, triggered severe harm and setbacks. Nonetheless, your management has successfully modified the narrative along with your renewed hope mantra and visionary strategic plans for schooling in Nigeria.”
The assertion added: “Your in depth background and expertise in academia, each administratively and in administration, make your appointment by President Bola Tinubu, a becoming selection, demonstrating an ideal alignment of expertise and obligations.
“We’re notably impressed by your agency commitments to key coverage measures geared toward advancing the schooling sector’s position in nationwide progress and growth. Your initiatives embody elevated funding within the sector, enhanced transparency and accountability in service supply, incentives to advertise increased schooling, and prioritisation of enrolling out-of-school youngsters. Your progressive management, strategic considering, and engagement with crucial stakeholders mirror a real dedication to realizing these aims.”
Nwakanma acknowledged that the minister’s lively participation in negotiations with ASUU and the federal authorities to deal with points referring to the welfare of college lecturers, wage will increase, college autonomy, and tutorial freedoms “is commendable. This dedication aligns with the president’s imaginative and prescient to remove industrial crises within the sector, and the fruitful discussions to date, together with the gradual clearance of wage backlogs and the elimination of universities and polytechnics from IPPIS, point out important progress and stability in tertiary establishments.
“We have now no different selection than to applaud your efforts to revitalise the schooling ministry’s position in shaping the way forward for youths and the data trade in Nigeria. Along with your management, we anticipate a future marked by industrial peace, concord, and progress within the academic sector. We prolong our greatest needs to your continued service to the ministry and the nation.”
