The Senate President, David Mark, has decried the nonchalance of many Nigerian parents to the education of their children. The Senate president said this yesterday in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, yesterday while commissioning the zonal office of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
Senator Mark said that Nigerians could complement the efforts of the federal government towards improving the quality of education, the country would be the better for it.
His words, "In the era of oil boom in the 1970s our Universities in the country were competing favourably with other renowned universities in the world but today the reverse is the case. But today it is disturbing to note that none of the nation's universities is among the 20 best universities in the world," he said.
Earlier, Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State, represented by his deputy, Chief Steve Lawani, commended the establishment of the JAMB zonal office in the state, saying that the problem of youths of the area gaining admissions into higher institutions would be partially minimized.
He implored the management to make judicious use of the facilities at their disposal to facilitate speedy processing of admission of applicants into the universities.
In her remark, Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayya Ahmed Rufai, pledged to uphold the value of education and also improve the standard of education and urged Nigerians including stakeholders to complement efforts towards the realization of this laudable objective.
National Mirror