Schools charging tuition fees in foreign currencies should be closed – Minister

The Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, says schools successful Nigeria charging tuition fees successful overseas currencies should beryllium closed.

Alake made the telephone astatine the Nigeria Gold Day Celebration connected the sidelines of the 10th variation of Nigeria’s Mining Week, themed `Nigeria Mining: From Progress to Global Relevance`, connected Wednesday successful Abuja.

He criticised the signifier and described it arsenic a portion of the leakages and loopholes successful Nigeria’s system threatening its growth.

“I americium inactive going to marque a connection to the Federal Executive Council that each those schools successful Nigeria that are charging successful overseas currencies should beryllium closed.

“These are immoderate of these leakages and loopholes that we accidental beryllium successful our system that radical bash not truly instrumentality these things precise seriously,” helium said.

“If you look astatine the overseas currency that goes into immoderate of this, it is humongous.

“If your kid is attending a schoolhouse successful Abuja oregon Lagos oregon determination successful the state and is paying 10,000 pounds oregon 10,000 dollars arsenic their fees, that means you volition beryllium looking for naira to spell and bargain dollars.

“Driving the worth of the dollar up, whereas this schoolhouse is successful Abuja successful Nigeria, you can’t spell to the UK, found a school, and past beryllium charging naira; it’s not done.

“It’s lone successful this state that I spot truthful galore contradictory things that truly demolish the economy,” helium said.

According to him, we indispensable statesman to alteration our worth strategy and predisposition into things that are substantial, productive, constructive and regenerative for the advancement of our nation.

The curate said the Federal Government was introducing assorted measures, including integer mechanisms, to guarantee that each leakages successful Nigeria’s golden worth concatenation were blocked and each loophole sealed.

He said the determination would trim country for interpersonal transactions, thereby reducing the propensity of corruption, which would further presumption Nigeria’s golden arsenic 1 of the planetary pillars of means of speech of value.

He said the Federal Government’s National Gold Purchase Programme (NGPP), implemented done the Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF), was designed to enactment up Nigeria’s overseas reserves and fortify the naira.

Alake explained that the NGPP, a constituent of the Presidential Artisanal Gold Mining Initiative (PAGMI), allows the authorities to bargain golden straight from artisanal miners successful naira, alternatively than spending overseas speech to acquisition golden internationally.

In her remarks, the Executive Director of SMDF, Hajia Fatima Shinkafi, said that dissimilar planetary trends, golden exploration backing successful Nigeria was connected an upward trajectory.

Shinkafi explained that, wrong the broader macroeconomic context, golden serves arsenic a harmless haven plus and encouraged league participants to research Nigeria’s golden opportunities.

“We implore everyone present to analyse Nigeria’s golden resources and enactment the minister’s efforts to marque Nigeria a premier destination for inferior miners.

“In different twelvemonth oregon so, let’s look astatine this Nigeria’s Gold time 2025 arsenic a pivotal turning point,” she said.

NAN reports that the Nigeria Mining Week, holding from October 13 to 15, is organised by the Miners Association of Nigeria successful concern with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the VUKA Group. (NAN)

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