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Wike Begins Jonathan’s Re-Election Bid

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THE Supervising Minister of Education, Barrister Nyesom Wike has commenced discreet campaign for President Goodluck Jonathan re-election in 2015 Presidential Election.  ‬‬
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Wike, said President Jonathan is special gift to the country and Nigerians should not allow the opportunity slip by in the forthcoming Presidential election.‬‬
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He spoke in Abuja on Thursday while presenting some landmark achievements of the Federal Ministry of Education under his watch.
In his presentation, entitled: “Education Sector Transformation Under President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s Administration”, Wike, said Jonathan is an unusual transformer, urging Nigerians to ensure that he is re-elected in 2015 to continue with the good work he has started.‬‬
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According him, President Jonathan’s administration has witnessed massive infrastructural development and injection enormous funds to the education sector.‬‬

Wike mentioned some of the land mark achievements as establishment of new Federal Universities to address challenges of access to higher education and equity, training of over 600,000 teachers aimed at enhancing quality of curriculum delivery.

He said also that TETFund interventions over the period of time under review have accelerated quality in public tertiary institutions among many other achievements.

Wike however lamented what he described as “unequal commitment to Basic Education Development by state governments saying billions of Naira meant for basic education are yet to be accessed by states.

According to him, “despite all our achievements, we still have big problem at hand. We cannot do much if our basic education is not standardised. We have billions of un-accessed UBE intervention funds lying idle in banks.

“Other challenges we have is attracting and retaining the right calibre of people into teaching profession”.

Wike noted other challenges in the sector as “un-accessed TETFund funds by tertiary institutions, lack of commitment to Federal initiatives in education by benefiting states and communities, lack of reliable data to support decision-making in education as well as insecurity which is disrupting the school calendar in some parts of the country”.

While saying that frequent strikes by academics unions in the sector has not helped in the academic calendar, the Minister assured that there will be stability in the academic calendar as the Federal government is not leaving any stone unturned.

He equally promised transformation of the nation’s educational institutions into world class centre of learning s well as translating research and innovation activities to support Nigerians industrial development.

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