Gombe State Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya yesterday said despite the paucity of funds, his administration will continue to accord priority attention to issues affecting the education sector at all levels. The governor stated this when he visited the College of Education and Legal Studies, Nafada to assess the level of infrastructural challenges confronting the institution.
While inspecting the female hostel which has been under construction since 2018, Yahaya assured the people that his administration will soon award a contract for the completion of the project, pending the construction of a permanent site for the school.
“The facility inspection visit we embarked upon will help us to be able to assess what is on the ground and the rot in our schools with a view to taking measures against compromising standards while developing a permanent site,” he said.
Sule noted that he is disposed to having the college relocated from its current site to a more suitable one.
He said his administration will identify suitable land for use as the permanent site for the college.
Yahaya encouraged the management of the institution not to relent in its determination to make the school a centre of academic excellence and a springboard of professionalism.
He praised the management of the college for their steadfastness toward the change of the school’s nomenclature and approvals by the National Commission for the Colleges of Education (NCCE) as well as the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund).
The Commissioner for Higher Education, Mr Meshack Audu Lauco had expressed confidence that the visit by Governor Yahaya will herald the much-needed infrastructural development in the institution.