Tai Solarin University of Education in Ijagun, Ogun State, has now been successfully converted to a federal university as President Tinubu has approved of it.
In a press release on Sunday signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, TASUED became the first federally owned tertiary institution in the Ogun East senatorial district.
“It is an opportunity for the Federal Government to honour Chief Obafemi Awolowo, who began the revolutionary free education programme in Western Nigeria, and Dr Tai Solarin, who spent most of his life educating our children and instilling patriotic and leadership lessons in them at Mayflower School in Ikenne,” Tinubu expressed in the statement.
The release added that “With this adoption, the Federal Government now oversees three universities of education: TASUED, Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education in Owerri, and Adeyemi Federal University of Education in Ondo.”
Furthermore, the federal Government expressed the decision to expand Ogun State’s educational landscape, said it reinforces the Federal Government’s commitment to advancing higher education.
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