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Kwara Poly 26th Convocation: Technical education, Agric, SMEs key to future – Abdulrazaq

Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq of Kwara State has called for adequate
preparation for Nigeria to survive in the post-oil years.
According to him, the post-oil era could be nearer than expected,
stressing for better attention to technical education, agriculture and
enterprise.
Abdulrazaq made the call at the 26th Convocation Ceremony of the Kwara
State Polytechnic, Ilorin at the institution premises, last Thursday.
The Governor said, “The whole world is preparing for post-oil years
and this means we must consciously wean ourselves off the unhelpful
addiction to the oil wealth. We must promote skills acquisition,
agribusiness, and enterprise.”
The Governor who was represented by the Secretary to the State
Government, Prof Mamman Jibril described as lacking depth earlier
suggestions that Nigeria should scrap Polytechnic education, saying
that the coming post-oil years open the window for institutions
offering technical education to redirect the country to the path of
sustainable growth and self-reliance.
“Kwara under us will promote agribusiness, skills acquisition, private
initiatives and local technological inventions,” he said.
“Among other plans, the ongoing process to renovate the Kwara State
Library, equip it with fast internet facilities for e-learning, and
make it the launch pad for our innovation hub is a step in this
direction and we will follow it through, God willing. We will support
technological inventions, especially from our own institutions that
would help to strengthen our agricultural value chain.”
He charged the graduands to buckle down as they face the world outside
of the four walls of the polytechnic adding that they should consider
becoming job providers rather than job seekers.
In his remarks, the newly appointed Rector of the institution, Dr
Abdul Jimoh Mohammed said plans are in top gear to have industrial
collaboration with Federal Institute of Industrial Research in
Ikorodu, Lagos State and foreign countries.
He added that more than one third of staff of institution has been
sponsored on training through TETFUND for maximum productivity and
efficient service delivery.
Mohammed said the institution would appreciate if blocks of students
hostels on campus are completed so as to aid students’ academic
activities and refrained them from co-habiting with opposite sex
adding that the institution is opened to Build Operate and Transfer
(BOT) arrangement as well as room for investors to rehabilitate the
existing ones.
He urged the graduands to be good ambassadors, imbibe the fear of God
and be self-reliant.

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