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Speaking at a retreat organised by the Osun State University in Ede, Osun State, Babalakin said: “Nigeria is at a crossroad and I believe very strongly that the emancipation of our great country will be led by the reformation of the education sector. Once we get the education system on the proper footing, it will propel the other sectors of the nation and begin an unstoppable forward movement”.

According to the statement, Adeosun said this at a meeting with stakeholders on Public Private Partnership.
She said decades of underinvestment and poor maintenance have left Nigeria’s infrastructure in bad shape, thus PPP was the best way to correct this

The lack of regular income therefore made the ulama reliant on the goodwill and support of the Muslim community or an influential patron. Assurance of this support appears to have been a necessary condition for the development of the ulama class in Hausa communities in pre-colonial Northern Nigeria (Balogun 1980)

Oladunjoye, who made the call in Lagos while receiving educational materials valued at N200,000 donated to the pupils of St. Peters’ Anglican Nursery and Primary School, Ikeja by the Nigerian Turkish International Colleges Foundation, explained that the call became necessary because government alone cannot adequately lift the standard of education

The state Commissioner for Education, Olayinka Oladunjoye, who disclosed this in Lagos, explained that the state’s contingent won the first positions in Inter-State Quiz Competition, National Theme Project, Free Choice Project and Physics Competitions; third positions in Physics and Technology Competitions; and fourth position in Mathematics competition

PDP National Publicity Secretary, Olisa Metuh in a statement on Mondaysaid the PDP has in the last 15 years, progressively grown the education sector as a social instrument for national development and integration through vigorous implementation of broad-based policies in keeping with its manifesto and ideology