Chairman, Kogi state Teaching Service Commission, Sylvester Onoja has said, to save education sector from total collapse, there was need to resuscitate the National Commission for Secondary Schools of Nigeria, signed into law in 1999 by former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
The TSC boss who was a former Principal of the prestigious, Kings College, Lagos stated this on Thursday in Lokoja while reacting to mass failure in Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, SSSCE result just released by the examination body.
“The May/June result only draws our attention to the damage being done to Vision 20:2020 if urgent steps are not taken to address the distressing state of education in Nigeria. There must be minimum standard in terms of number of teachers, classrooms, learning materials among others before establishing a secondary school”, he stressed.
According to him, the law backing the Commission was signed into law in 1999 by the former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, but it never saw the light of day, stressing that, in effect, secondary schools had become orphans in the education sector.
The former Commissioner for Education in Kogi State maintained that lack of standard and regulations on the establishment of secondary schools in the country has led to the falling standard of education, lamenting that establishment of secondary school has been left at the whims and caprices of states, individuals and organisations who are out to make profit.
He opined that if we failed to get primary and secondary education right, the nation would not get education right, and that the nation stands at a risk of producing half baked graduates, since secondary school feeds the universities with their graduates.
The State of Kogi should stop sponsoring ALL religious obligations, particularly now that they cannot pay even slaries and meet basic government obligations to its citizens. Religion is a personal private afair between man and God and not between state and God.
The State of Kogi should stop sponsoring ALL religious obligations, particularly now that they cannot pay even salaries and meet basic government obligations to its citizens. Religion is a personal private afair between man and God and not between state and God.