Kwara State government has directed immediate resumption of academic activities at the state’s College of Education in Ilorin, a statement from the State Ministry of Tertiary Education at the weekend said.
The statement, signed by the Press Secretary in the Ministry, Monsurat Amuda-Kannike, quoted the Commissioner, Dr Alabi Afees Abolore, as saying that Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq gave the directive following the interventions of some relevant stakeholders to find a lasting solution to the problem.
It would be recalled that the government shut the College five weeks ago against the backdrop of the protest embarked upon by students of the institution – an action the administration considered unnecessary.
The Commissioner said the government had to close the academic session to hinder the possible degeneration of the crisis within the College community, ahead of taking steps to resolve it.
According to him, it took the Ministry’s series of engagements with the Management of the College, the leaderships of the Joint Academic Staff Union in Tertiary Institutions (JASUTI) and Committee of Unions in Tertiary Institutions (CUTI) in the Institution, and other important stakeholders, who all pleaded for the return of normalcy.
He said another takeaway from those meetings was the promise from the attendants never to allow anything that could threaten public peace and impede academic sessions in that citadel of learning to happen again.
The statement further noted that the latest decision by the government was to enable the College to continue with the examination that was naturally put on hold following the shutdown.
It, however, called on the school management to justify the confidence reposed in them by ensuring that the Institution meets the yearning of students vis-a-vis the service delivery.
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