Senator Stella Oduah’s Bill on Federal University of Education Aguleri, Anambra State passes First Reading

 In today’s plenary, the Bill on Federal University of Education Aguleri, Anambra State, Bill 2018(SB. 653) was read today on the floor of the Senate.  The Bill which was co-sponsored by Senator victor Umeh was designed to address the perennial admission challenges in Anambra State and other environs.

Yearly, Anambra State and many South East States top the list of States with highest number of students seeking admission into tertiary institutions across the country. Many of these youths who are seeking to develop their human capital through modern education are deprived admission with flimsy geo-political reasons of catchment  area.

Yearly, many of these young people denied their right to education are forced into desperate survival strategies that make them vulnerable to the waiting hawks called yahoo yahoo boys, human traffickers, kidnappers et al who promise them life changing opportunities and quick money to migrate into the club of Nouveaux riche at such a young age.

These overtures which are tempting to them and so difficult to reject create the part way to the destruction of lives and minds of our young people.

This tertiary institution has come to cushion the effects by increasing the number of young people who gain admission yearly.

The Following Benefits are tenable when this Bill is passed:

i.              Many young people seeking admission into tertiary institutions that are deprived hitherto will have more opportunities to gain admission

ii.            The institutions will contribute to training of many teachers who will in turn contribute their quota towards the development of other young students as teachers in those schools.

iii.          Location of the school will contribute towards the development of the communities around Aguleri as the presence of students will increase economic activities in the area.

iv.          This will help to reduce illiteracy level around the area

v.            It will attract a lot of economic activities including real estate development around the communities.

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