The statement added that the latest decision by the Kwara government was to enable the college to continue with the examination that was put on hold following the shutdown.
By Jeffrey Agbo
Kwara State Government has directed the immediate resumption of academic activities at the College of Education in Ilorin.
Press Secretary, Ministry of Tertiary Education, Monsurat Amuda-Kannike, made this known in a statement on Sunday.
Amuda-Kannike quoted the Commissioner in the ministry, Dr Alabi Abolore as saying that Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq gave the directive following interventions by some stakeholders on the need to find lasting solutions to the crisis in the college.
Kwara State Government had on October 19 shut the college following a violent protest by students.
The commissioner said the government had to close the institution to forestall possible degeneration of the crisis within the college community.
Abolore said it took the Kwara State Ministry of Tertiary Education series of engagements with the college management and the leadership of the Joint Academic Staff Union in Tertiary Institutions (JASUTI), both of which pleaded for return to normalcy.
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”Committee of Unions in Tertiary Institutions (CUTI) in the institution and other important stakeholders also intervened.
”Another takeaway from those meetings was the promise from the attendants never to allow anything that could threaten public peace and impede academic session in that citadel of learning happen again,” he said.
The statement added that the latest decision by the Kwara government was to enable the college to continue with the examination that was put on hold following the shutdown.
It, however, called on the school management to justify the confidence reposed in it by ensuring that the institution met the yearning of students vis-a-vis the service delivery.
