Abuja should devote 26 per cent of the federal budget to education to ensure quality and universal access and to facilitate national development, says Professor Isaac Aladegbola of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA).
Aladegbola, who teaches political science and public administration, wants priority given to education because it empowers people to lift themselves out of poverty and strengthens nations.
Speaking at the prize giving day at the Apostolic Faith Secondary School (AFSS), Emure-Ekiti in Ekiti State, he stressed that education bestows on youths a disposition for a lifelong acquisition of knowledge, values, attitudes, competence, and skills.
He sought a revolution in the educational system which will encompass the re-introduction of enterprise in well funded technical schools.
AFSS Principal, Ogunleye Olumuyiwa, said the school is known for discipline, forthrightness, hard work, academic excellence, and leading students in the way of the Lord.
“As a mission school,” he added, “we are contributing our quota in nation building by turning out products that will have the fear of God, who equally will be self reliant, doing away with examination malpractices.”
He pledged that the school will continue to give the best to students, and “we have equally engaged them in different technical education, like barbing, weaving and learning of music and instruments which is a major legacy in our establishment.”