Quality Education Key to National Transformation – Jonathan

Leadership (Abuja)

George Agba

18 May 2011

Abuja — President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday reiterated the pertinence of rapid improvement in Nigeria’s educational sector to his administration’s agenda for National Transformation. This was just as he said that the recommendations of the Presidential Task Team on Education would be diligently implemented to significantly raise the standards of education in the country.

Jonathan, who received the team’s report at the Presidential Villa, said he was convinced that their efficient implementation would lead to the speedy resolution of many of the problems currently bedeviling Nigeria’s educational sector.

“Education is core to whatever we want to do as a nation. Nigeria cannot make much progress towards the attainment of its Vision 20-2020 unless we strengthen our educational system. We will therefore do our best in the next four years to reposition our educational sector in a way that the entire nation will appreciate,” the president said.

Assuring members of the Task Team led by Professor Pai Obanya, that their dedicated service and knowledgeable report would not be in vain, Jonathan promised that their recommendations would be put into use by his administration to reinvent Nigeria’s educational sector.

He thanked Prof. Obanya and members of the team for their good work, and said that his administration would continue to welcome their professional advice in its efforts to ensure that quality education returned to the nation.

The Presidential Task Team on Education was inaugurated by President Jonathan in January this year in the aftermath of the National Educational Summit convened by his Administration in October, 2010.

Meanwhile, the Minister of Labour and Productivity and the supervisory minister of Interior, Emeka Wogu yesterday said that Federal Government would soon bring to an end the inhuman practices called casualisation or contract staffing by some multinationals operating in the country.

The minister who was speaking during the presentation of a report of the Technical work group on casualisation and contract staffing in the Oil and Gas sector of the Nigerian economy said government will take step to ensure such practices was addressed in other sector of the economy.

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