Oyetola charges OSSCE Ila-Orangun to join hands with Government in revitalising education in Osun

OYETOLA CHARGES OSSCE ILA-ORANGUN MANAGEMENT TO JOIN HANDS WITH GOVERNMENT IN REVITALISING EDUCATION IN OSUN

Osun State Governor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola has charged management of the State College of Education, Ila-Orangun to join hands with the State Government in it’s bids to revitilise the educational system in the state.

The Governor according to a statement by the Acting Registrar of the Institution, Mr Segun Ajiboye stated this during a courtesy call to the Governor recently by the newly appointed Acting Provost, Professor Jimoh Atanda Afolabi, a Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics from Federal University of Technology Akure and other top Management Officers of the College.

According to the Governor, the College should be able to complement the State Government’s efforts in standardising the educational system of the state, which according to him, ” has been given the largest consideration in the state’s budget.”

The Governor admonished the team “to reposition the College to ensure realisation of the Government’s education agenda, which made it (sector) to receive the highest vote in the current budget, so that it can serve as a catalyst for development, social re-engineering and manpower production for the school system”, the statement said.

While presenting the Acting Provost to the Governor, the Special Adviser to the Governor on Education, Alhaji Jamiu Olawumi who with the Commissioner for Education, Hon Folorunso Bamisayemi facilitated the courtesy call, stressed that the Governor Gboyega Oyetola’s led administration “is committed to revitalising the educational system of the state at all levels.

The Acting Provost, promised the Governor to ensure that the dreams of the founding fathers of the Institution like Chief Bisi Akande, a political doyen in the state is not killed, but actualised to train and produce brilliant man power that would serve as forces of honour and integrity in the nation’s education industry.

The Acting Registrar, Mr Segun Ajiboye, in his vote of thanks on behalf of the College Management, thanked the Governor and Visitor to the College for finding them worthy of their respective appointments, which he described ” as a call to service of their fatherland and for the unprecedented audience given to the college management.

Present at the brief ceremony were the Deputy Governor, Mr Benedict Alabi, Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Wole Oyebanji, Chief of Staff to the Governor, Dr. Charlse Akinola and other Cabinet members and top Government functionaries.

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