Invest Heavily In Education, Prioritise Lecturers Welfare, Dean Urges FG

The Dean, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Kola Daisi University, Ibadan, Prof. Olajumoke Morenikeji, has urged the Federal Government to show greater commitment to education by increasing the budgetary allocation to the sector.

Morenikeji also urged the new administration to prioritize the welfare of lecturers and payment of the eight-month outstanding salaries of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

Morenikeji stated this at the second edition of the science exhibition and quiz competition for secondary schools in Oyo State organized by the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the university, where Mount Olivet Grammar school, Bodija, Ibadan emerged winners among the 21 participating public and private secondary schools.

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The dean said the present government must focus on education, adding that a country without good education is as good as nothing.

She said the administration must look into the welfare of lecturers, as it is very important.

The Vice Chancellor of the University, Adeniyi Olatubosun (SAN), said no country can become industrialized without science and technology.

Olatubosun said the science exhibition and quiz competition is focused on youths in secondary schools because this will form the foundation for building up scientists and technologists that can drive the nation’s system.

Olatunbosun recalled that Japan, between 1951 and 1953, put its emphasis on science promotion and after 20 years, the country became one of the industrialized nations in the world.