Developing Nigeria 'Private companies and wealthy individuals should help fund education'

A local government council boss, Modupe Ajibola-Ojodu, has urged private organisations and wealthy individuals in Nigeria to support government efforts to improve the country's education fortunes.

Ajibola-Ojodu, who is the Executive Secretary of Amuwo Odofin LGA, Lagos, said education is the basis of a nation's development and must be left for the government alone.

"Organizations like commercial banks and other wealthy individuals should assist immensely in funding education at all levels," she told The Nation.

"Development partners and other crucial stakeholders should also do more in the above direction, as the era of leaving the funding to government alone had passed."

  The Executive Secretary of Amuwo Odofin Local Government, Deaconess Modupe Ajibola- Ojodu
(amuwo-odofin)

The council boss said urgent collaborative action is needed because it is impossible for Nigeria to develop beyond its education sector.

"A nation develops to its achievement in education.

"This explains why contemporary world attention has focused on education as an instrument of launching nations into the world of science and technology and with consequential hope of human advancement in terms of living conditions and development of the environment.”

Student Pulse gathered that Ajibola-Ojodu's administration only recently gave free November/December General Certificate of Examination (GCE) form to 100 students in the LGA.