The bid to make Kogi State take its rightful place in education, the State Governor, Capt Idris Wada explained has necessitated the restructuring that is on going in the Education system of the state.
Capt Idris Wada stated this at the first matriculation ceremony of the Federal University Lokoja.
The restructuring the governor, who was represented by his Deputy, Yomi Awoniyi, noted was occasioned by years of neglect, led to the screening and discovery of ghost teachers and schools.
Wada urged the new University to complement the rich human capital of the state as Kogi State Government intends to use the new institution as a research centre for the transformation and development of the State.
Describing the matriculation as remarkable and historic, the Minister of Education, Prof Rukayat Ahmed Rufai, said the Federal Government has so far released the sum of N3.5 billion for the take off the temporary and main campus of the FUL.
The Minister also added that the bill legalizing the nine recently established universities have been signed into law while an approval has also been given for the physical master plan of the FUL.
She equally disclosed that 2391 students in eight of the nine newly established universities have so far matriculated, pointed out that no meaningful development can be achieved without education.
She described the feet as made possible by President Goodluck Jonathan, whose transformation agenda is hinged on quality tertiary education.
In his welcome remarks, Prof Abdulmumuni Hassan Rafindadi, Vice Chancellor FUL, said the institution will strive against zero tolerance for examination malpractice as well as acts related to cultism or any other social vices, adding that it will not be tolerated by the institution.
In a matriculation lecture, titled State of Education in Nigeria Today, Dr George Kwanashi, noted the flaws in the nations educational system,however called for a change in mindset, urged for policy consistency and improved infrastructural facilities, improved teaching and learning materials as well as professionalism as panacea to improved learning in the University educational system.
The FUL was established along with eight other Universities in 2011,matriculated 443 students into three Faculties.
