FG insists on FGC Kano land swap despite opposition

The Federal Government has said it volition proceed with its planned onshore swap astatine the Federal Government College (FGC), Kano, contempt opposition.

The authorities said the task is aimed astatine raising funds to grow the schoolhouse and amended its facilities.

The Minister of Education, Dr Maruf Olatunji Alausa, disclosed this during a sojourn to the schoolhouse connected Monday. He was accompanied by the Minister of State for Education, officials from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), arsenic good arsenic the Kano State Commissioner for Education.

Alausa said the authorities would marque decisions based connected what benefits students alternatively than nationalist sentiment.

“There is nary going back. We volition bash what we deliberation is close for Nigerian children. It is not astir sentiment oregon emotion; it is astir giving each kid entree to the highest prime of education,” helium said.

The curate explained that the task would beryllium implemented done a Public-Private Partnership (PPP), allowing the authorities to utilise unused portions of the school’s onshore to make funds for caller infrastructure.

He said determination was nary crushed to support onshore that would stay unused for decades erstwhile it could beryllium utilized to amended education.

“There is nary request keeping truthful galore hectares of onshore that we are ...