The Kwara State Government has approved one hundred and twenty million naira as a bailout fund for its four tertiary Institutions.
The State Commissioner, Ministry of Tertiary Education, Alabi Afees Abolore said the benefitting institutions are the Kwara State Colleges of Education in Ilorin, Lafiagi and Oro, as well as the College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies in Ilorin respectively.
The Commissioner who disclosed this to newsmen in Ilorin, the state capital explained that it became imperative for the government to come to their rescue.
According to him, this will enable them to fulfil certain obligations to their staff, adding that this is not the first of its kind from the administration in the state.
He said Governor AbdulRaman AbdulRazaq has been doing all this to encourage the smooth running of the institutions and to achieve a stable academic calendar across the board.
Abolore recalled that several similar interventions of this nature have been witnessed by our Tertiary Institutions since the inception of the current administration.
He urged the managements of the institutions to utilize the funds for their original purpose, even as he charged them to be committed to the policy direction of government in the sector.
The Commissioner, who expressed the government’s readiness to continue to spur improved teaching and learning, called on the school authorities to complement this by upgrading their teaching methodology towards enhancing the quality of graduates they produce.
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