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President Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande person commended Independent Newspapers Limited, publishers of Daily Independent, Saturday Independent and Sunday Independent, for celebrating 70 years of Universal Basic Education (UBE) successful Nigeria — a milestone rooted successful the escaped acquisition argumentation launched successful 1955.
Speaking done Aisha Garba, the enforcement caput of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), President Tinubu said the designation of UBE by The Independent honoured the bold imaginativeness of Nigeria’s founding fathers who saw acquisition arsenic the cardinal to societal transformation.
He said, “Tonight, done Independent Newspapers, we honour that bold imaginativeness of escaped education. Free acquisition has served arsenic a ladder for families, and that torch indispensable not dim.
“It is the work of each authorities to renew that imaginativeness — to cognize that acquisition is the close of each child. Our Renewed Hope Agenda is not conscionable a slogan but a imaginativeness to marque acquisition a instrumentality for nationalist renewal.
“We honour the foresight of Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe and Sir Ahmadu Bello, and we state that this procreation volition decorativeness what they began.”
Tinubu stressed that acquisition indispensable determination from aspiration to world for each Nigerian child, describing it arsenic some a societal work and a nationalist information imperative.
He added, “If we rescue this procreation done education, they volition go the drivers of accidental tomorrow.
“Our youths are our top assets. We cannot basal by portion our children stay retired of school. We indispensable warrant entree to learning, due to the fact that thing little would marque the sacrifice of 70 years agone worthy nothing.”
In his remarks, erstwhile Osun State politician and founding nationalist president of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, applauded Independent Newspapers Limited for marking the milestone and keeping the past of UBE alive.
Akande, 1 of the pioneering teachers of the 1955 acquisition era, lamented that the advancement of the Universal Basic Education strategy was derailed by the subject era.
“It’s unfortunate that the advancement of UBE was stunted and bastardised by the subject government,” helium said.
“Before the subject imposed themselves arsenic the authorities of Nigeria, astir acquisition institutions were diligently managed by the regions. The regions developed and implemented their ain acquisition policies, including scholarships and escaped acquisition programmes.
“Suddenly, these institutions of learning were forcefully taken implicit by the subject successful 1976 and handed to caller structures without the acquisition to negociate them. That marked the opening of the decay successful acquisition infrastructure and teaching methodology,” helium stated.
He thanked Independent Newspapers for reminding Nigerians of the enduring worth of escaped education.
“Universal Basic Education remains the champion foundation, and escaped acquisition remains the best,” Akande said.
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