Represented by the director, Tertiary Department of the Ministry of Education, Mrs Rakiya Ilyasu Gambo, Buhari while commending the efforts of universities in expanding the horizon for young people through moral rectitude and training to be more entrepreneurial in outlook said the federal government had not relented in finding lasting solutions to the mirage of challenges facing universities as well as the nation’s education sector.
” The federal government is aware of the deficit in funding and infrastructure. Concerted efforts are being made to improve the current conditions, it is also imperative that universities should come to terms with the present realities including the challenge of inadequate funding.
“While government would continue to ensure the full implementation of budgetary provisions for the education sector, universities must also evolve other ways of augmenting what they receive as allocation and grants. At a time like this when the federal government is grappling with socio-economic and political challenges it is important that I reiterate its commitment to finding home-grown solutions that will outlive even my administration.
“We have so far diversified the economy with focus on agriculture through the provision of grants and start-up loans for interested people, especially youths,” he said.
The president said no country can provide jobs for all its graduates and charged the graduates to be creative, urging them to also join the fight against corruption.