Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, has asked the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) for assistance in bolstering the state’s higher institutions’ infrastructure growth.
Adeleke paid a courtesy visit to TETFund Executive Secretary Sonny Echono on Friday in Abuja.
The Governor stated that the visit was required to guarantee that education maintains its pride because of the State’s declining educational quality.
Adeleke praised the fund for its part in giving higher education a face, but added that it was unlikely that any advancement in tertiary institutions would be possible without the TETFund.
According to the Governor:
“Let me first commend TETFund for the great job it is doing across Nigeria. There is no institution that you will not see TETFund presence, so any right thinking governor must commend their work so they can do more.
“In Osun State, we are enjoying TETFund in the areas of infrastructure.
“I am here for the support from TETFund for Osun State and to ask for more because we still need a lot of support as our education has really dropped.”
Echono in response, stated that higher education was particularly important to the affairs and future of any nation.
However, he said that postsecondary education has to get appropriate focus because here is where inventions, creativity, and entrepreneurialism are often at their peak.
“We believe strongly that tertiary education plays a special role in the affairs and even the destiny of any country because that is the level where the greatest level of production, creativity and the greatest impact happen.
“Whether it is in terms of new ideas, in terms of new products and services, in terms of better ways of doing things, it is at that level that innovation is at its highest, that creativity and enterprises are at its highest.
“And it is that body of knowledge of expertise that services the various sectors of every economy, whether it is health, media, in any field,” he stated.
cc: Daily Post Ng
