The Edo State owned College of Education, Ekiadolor has been renamed Tayo Akpata University of Education in honour of a former Commissioner for Education in the defunct Bendel State, Chief Tayo Akpata by the state government.
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Announcing the new development during the funeral service of the late elder statesman in Benin, the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole said that the state government's decision was as a result of his (Akpata) contributions to the development of the state.
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He said that the renaming of the university would serve as an inspiration to youths, whom he advised to emulate the virtues of the late Akpata, who was also a one time Executive Secretary of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund and the first Chairman of the National Youth Service Corps (Mid-West State) in 1975.