NUC Commends Delta State Government for Initiative on Sustainable Development Education
The Acting Executive Secretary of the National University Commission, Mr Chris Maiyaki, has commended Delta State Government for its contributions to sustainable educational development in the state and country.
Maiyaki made the commendation when he led the commission on a courtesy visit to the governor in Government House, Asaba.
He explained that the visit was coming at a time when the calls for the reinvention of the higher education system were getting louder by the day”.
“Your Excellency, we like to congratulate your government for being so educationally friendly and the information we have is that the university we are visiting was founded when you were the Speaker of the State House of Assembly.
“It was during your time that having appended your signature that we accepted and granted licences to the University of Delta, Agbor, the Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro and the Dennis Osadebay University, Anwai-Asaba,” he said.
“NUC is vested by law with the vital and strategic responsibility of orderly development of university education, the general coordination and regulation of the sub-sector.
“We carry out that vital assignment through the monitoring of implementation of minimum standards, licence of private universities, conducting resource verification and accreditation of courses among others.
“We are here to carry out resource verification of academic programmes at the University of Delta, Agbor, to ascertain the quality and the quantity of the physical facilities, the human resources, the ICT deployments, the learning resources in hard and soft copies and of course the atmosphere for learning”
He thanked the governor for the sustainable funding and support extended to this University and indeed all other institutions of higher learning in Delta.
The Delta State Governor, Sheriff Oborevwori, said the State Government placed a premium on education to keep students of the State on track and focused.
Welcoming the Commission to the state, Oborevwori thanked NUC for approving the three new universities for the state, saying the establishment of the new universities was well justified hence the House of Assembly he presided over then didn’t waste time in passing the bills.
