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By Adeola Badru
The National Vice President (South West) of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) and Presiding Bishop of Victory International Church, Bishop Taiwo Adelakun, has warned that Nigeria’s continuous neglect of the acquisition sector, particularly the prolonged situation involving the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), poses a superior menace to the nation’s stableness and future.
Speaking astatine a property league successful Ibadan up of the 36th Anniversary Celebration of Rehoboth Cathedral, themed “The Glory of the Latter House,” Bishop Adelakun, who besides serves arsenic the Chancellor of Dominion University, Ibadan, criticised the authorities for failing to prioritise acquisition portion indulging successful wasteful expenditure that has near young Nigerians frustrated and the assemblage strategy weakened.
“If the manner of those successful authorities does not alteration and billions proceed to beryllium squandered connected irrelevant things portion acquisition suffers, Nigeria is sitting connected a clip bomb,” Adelakun warned.
He said a federation that fails to amended its younker is “only postponing disaster,” stressing that until the authorities cuts wasteful spending, the ASUU situation volition persist.
Bishop Adelakun faulted governmental leaders for hypocrisy, noting that portion they assertion determination is nary wealth to decently money universities, they support a bloated bureaucracy and extravagant lifestyles.
“If the National Assembly and those successful powerfulness slashed their ain earnings, they could credibly accidental there’s nary money. But erstwhile the outgo of governance remains outrageous and leaders unrecorded successful luxury, nary 1 believes specified excuses. The situation volition support repeating itself,” helium said.
Expressing sympathy for ASUU’s telephone for amended funding, Adelakun described the decay successful the acquisition assemblage arsenic some a motivation and argumentation failure, urging the authorities to spot acquisition arsenic an concern successful nationalist improvement alternatively than a fiscal burden.
“A state that fails to put successful its schools is penning its ain obituary. Education should beryllium the strongest pillar of nationalist progress, not an afterthought for those successful power,” helium stated.
The cleric besides challenged Nigerian academics to rise standards and reposition universities arsenic centres of probe and innovation that connection applicable solutions to the nation’s problems.
“Let america inquire ourselves sincerely, however galore of our universities are inactive carrying retired meaningful research? Universities are expected to lick nationalist problems. If our mechanical engineering departments were serious, we should beryllium producing cars by now,” helium noted.
Describing Nigeria’s acquisition situation arsenic a corporate tragedy, Bishop Adelakun said some the authorities and ASUU indispensable instrumentality work for rebuilding nationalist spot and restoring excellence successful higher education.
“Academics request to aftermath up and beryllium up. We volition support returning to this aforesaid contented until everyone—both the authorities and lecturers—decides to bash the close thing,” helium said.
Adelakun highlighted his ministry’s publication to acquisition done the constitution of Victory International Church schools and Dominion University, which helium said were founded connected the content that acquisition is the instauration of genuine nationalist transformation.
“Any ministry that overlooks investing successful the younger procreation is selfish. Running a assemblage is capital-intensive. What a prof earns successful a nationalist assemblage is what we are expected to pay, and sometimes adjacent more,” helium explained.
Despite the fiscal strain, helium said the religion continues to supply scholarships to indigent students and payment enactment to widows and susceptible groups.
“If God had not called maine into this, I would not spell into it. But this is our relevance—to signifier destinies and physique a procreation that volition reconstruct anticipation to the nation,” helium added.
The 36th day solemnisation of Rehoboth Cathedral volition clasp from October 16 to 19, 2025, astatine Wonder City and Rehoboth Cathedral, Ibadan. The four-day event, hosted by Bishop Taiwo and Pastor Dolapo Adelakun, volition diagnostic “four days of fearful praise and 2 mornings of a...
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