By SINL Reporter
Chairman Senate committee on Finance, Senator Solomon Olamilekan Adeola has lamented the massive explosion in Nigeria population estimated at over 200million, saying available admission Spaces are limited in absorbing people seeking for higher education at the university level.
Adeola made the observation on Thursday at a One-Day public hearing for three educational advancement bills sponsored by him in Abuja.
According to the lawmaker, recent study on the subject of availability of spaces for university admission in Nigeria by “Population Institute Canada”, between 2010 and 2015, only 26 percent of the 10 million applicants to Nigeria tertiary institutions secured admission.
The three bills are; “A bill for an Act to provide for the Establishment of the Federal University of Technology, Yaba, A bill for an Act to provide for the Establishment of the Federal University of Technology, Ilaro; to make comprehensive provisions for its due management and administration and for other matters connected therewith and A bill for an Act to provide for the Establishment of the Nigerian French Language village as an inter-university centre for French studies and for other matters connected therewith.
He said “They are all pursuant of one of my legislative agenda to enhance and develop educational institutions as well as human resources department in Nigeria”.
Justifying the bills, Senator Adeola said in Nigeria “We are yet to get to the point where we have enough admission Spaces in universities for our youth in gaining admission into universities for good education, particularly technology-based education, informed my sponsorship of the bills to upgrade two major existing polytechnics to full-blown universities of technology”.
He emphasised that the passage of the three bills is pursuant to one of his legislative agenda, stressing that it will advance the technological development of Nigeria as well as human resources development among the teeming youths.
