June - August, 2019 Vol. 4 No. 15 ISSN NO:2141-9590 Snippets on NBTE PRESIDENT BUHARI INAUGURATES CABINET Board Chairman Prof. Modupe Adelabu … Mal. Adamu Adamu re-appointed Education Minister Executive Secretary Dr. Masa'udu A. Kazaure, mni NBTE Vision and Mission Vision To be a world class regulatory body for the promotion of Technical and Vocational Education and Training in Nigeria Mission To promote the production of skilled technical and professional manpower for the development and sustenance of the national economy Core Mandate To coordinate all aspects of Technical and Vocational Education Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, President Federal Republic of Nigeria while presenting his address and assigning portfolios to the ministers during the swearing-in ceremony at the State House Abuja falling outside university education resident Muhammadu Buhari, The President who retained himself NBTE Statutes th GCFR on Wednesday August · NBTE enabling Act No. 9 of 11 as the Minister of Petroleum also January, 1977 21, 2019 swore-in 43 ministers reappointed Mal. Adamu as the to serve in his cabinet as ten Minister of Education with · Education (National Minimum Pformer members of the Federal Executive Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba as the Standard and Establishment of Institution Act No. 16 of August Council (FEC) including the President new Minister of State for Education. 1985 and Act No. 9 of 1993 retained their former portfolios. Cont. on Page 2 No. of Institutions under NBTE Purview §Polytechnics 134 §Colleges of Agriculture 33 §Colleges of Health Sciences 50 §Specialized Institutions 31 §Innovation Enterprise Institutions (IEIs) 153 §Vocational Enterprise Institutions(VEIs) 82 § Technical Colleges 119 Total: 602 Honourable Minister of Education Mal. Adamu Adamu (1st right) and other Ministers designate while taking the oath of office during the swearing-in ceremony at the State House Abuja. Editorial Committee: Suleiman S. Gwarzo (Chairman), Lawal Y. Hafiz, Chima A. Ejiofor, Ansa O. Ndem, Esther A. Damisa, Fatima Abubakar, Nafisa Abba (Members), Jacob A. Abang (Editor/Secretary), Aliyu I. Hassan (Graphics) Abdullahi Isah (Cameraman) website: www.nbte.gov.ng, All enquiries to: [email protected] … Mal. Adamu Adamu re-appointed Education Minister Cont’d from front page According to the President, three new ministries were created and two were unbundled for effective service delivery. The new Ministries include, Ministry of Humanitarian and Disaster Management, Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs and the Ministry of Police Affairs. Aviation and Power were separated from Transportation and Works and Housing respectively. Adamu Adamu an accountancy graduate from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria is a prolific writer and a public analyst. He was first Minister of State for Education, Hon, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba (2nd left) while taking the oath of appointed Minister of Education office alongside other ministers during the swearing-in ceremony by President Muhammadu Buhari in November 2015, along with 35 others, when the president made his first major appointments. Before his appointment as minister, h e w a s t h e s e c r e t a r y o f Muhammadu Buhari's transition committee and a columnist with the Daily Trust Newspaper. He was reappointed on 21 August, 2019 as Minister of Education by President Muhammadu Buhari. Born on 25 May, 1956 in Katagum, Bauchi state, Adamu graduated from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where he obtained bachelor's degree in Accounting. He also obtained master's degree in President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) flanked by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (left) and the Senate President Ahmed Lawan (right) in a group photograph with the newly sworn-in ministers. Journalism from Columbia University's School of Journalism. LGA of Imo state, Southeast platform of APP in 2003, 2007 and Adamu is polyglot, being fluent in Nigeria. Emeka Nwajiuba was born as CPC candidate in 2011. He was Arabic, Persian, Fulfulde, Hausa, in August 20, 1967 shortly after the secretary of the Constitution and French. Biafran war broke out. Married drafting committee that produced After graduation from University, with two children, HCN as fondly the Constitution of the merger Adamu worked briefly as an called is blessed with loads of committee to form APC in 2013. accountant in his home state amazing credentials. He was called Nwajiuba, a highly decent and Bauchi before venturing into to the Nigerian bar in 1989, pursued principled man, contested for Imo Journalism where he rose through his LLM at University of Lagos and state governorship election in 2003 the ranks to become Deputy Editor PhD at University of Jos. challenging the then incumbent of now defunct New Nigerian He had served as House of governor, Chief Achike Udenwa of newspaper. Adamu Adamu's first Representatives Committee the Peoples Democratic Party. job as an editor was in 1984. Chairman on Land, Housing and Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba is the A l s o , H o n C h u k w u e m e k a Works from 1999 to 2003 before current Chairman of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND). Nwajiuba is from Ehime-Mbano contesting Imo governorship on the Page 2 Adamu Adamu's Scorecard During his First Tenure as Minister of Education damu Adamu, identified his successes and major Afailure as education minister. Mal. Adamu who spoke at his valedictory press conference marking the end of his first tenure as Minister in Abuja, said that his inability to reduce Nigeria's out of school children despite his pledge to do so was a shame on him. He apologised to Nigerians over his inability to fulfill his promise to reduce the number of out-of- school children by half before the end of his tenure. The minister said the status of Nigeria as having the highest number of out-of-school children globally “was a big mark of shame Mallam Adamu Adamu Hon. Minister of Education to him as a person and to the entire school children to half. I must had injected about N1.3 trillion into nation.” apologise for this but I believe the the education sector in the last four He noted that a 2015 Demographic new minister will bring this years. Health Survey(DHS) conducted by number down,” he said. The UBEC interventions in states the United Nations Children Fund With his reappointment as Minister have recorded a total of N350 (UNICEF) and the Nigerian of Education, it is expected that billion while TETFund and NEEDS government showed that out of bringing the number of out-of- Assessment interventions have school children in Nigeria has risen school children by half will be one recorded N857 billion with the from 10.5 million to 13.2 million. of his priorities. main ministry and other agencies According to the minister, the On education funding, Mal. Adamu recording N86 billion totaling N1.3 concerns of this administration said that the Buhari administration have been two-fold: “to find an trillion in the last four years. This is aside the N25 billion just empirical means of getting the “The UBEC interventions in approved for public universities. actual figures and best ways to states have recorded a total of These figures have nothing to do reduce the number to the barest N350 billion while TETFund with personnel and overhead costs minimum.” and NEEDS Assessment He said Nigeria has one of the in the education sector, which are interventions have recorded highest number of out-of-school also well over a trillion naira, he N857 billion with the main children in Sub-saharan Africa and said. ministry and other agencies perhaps in the world and ranked He explained that the N25 billion recording N86 billion totaling only second to Pakistan. was recently released to public “When I came on board, I promised N1.3 trillion in the last four universities to pay earned academic to bring the number of out-of- years.” allowances of lecturers. Page 3 Federal Poly Rectors to Serve Five Year Single Tenure resident Muhammadu Buhari GCFR has Precently in Abuja signed into law the Federal Polytechnics Amendment bill which offers a five-year single tenure for rectors of Federal Polytechnics. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (House of Representatives), Alhaji Umar El-Yakub disclosed this when he addressed State House Correspondents in Abuja. According to him, the new Act on Federal Polytechnics now pegs the tenure of Rectors of Federal Polytechnics at five- year single tenure. H e s a i d t h e F e d e r a l Polytechnics Amendment Bill His Excellency Muhammadu Buhari President, Federal Republic of Nigeria sought to amend the Federal Polytechnics Act of 2004, h a v e g o v e r n i n g w h e r e b y t h e r e w e r e councils of amendments to several five members, sections of that Act. reflecting the n a t i o n a l This includes the tenure of the c h a r a c t e r , rectors, which has now been comprising a harmonized to five-year single l a d y , a n tenure. Where a rector is alumnus of currently serving the old four- each of the Polytechnics year tenure, he/she will have an and a person additional year to make it five, from the area he added. w h e r e t h e The amended Act stipulates Polytechnic is Alh. Umar El-Yakub, Senior Special Assistant to the President on that Polytechnics will now situated. National Assembly (House of Representatives) Page 4 Murjanatu House Abuja formally Handed Over to NBTE he National Board for Technical Education T(NBTE) has recovered its Murjanatu House property located at no 445 Maitama, Cadastral Zone A05, in Abuja which was earlier placed under investigation by the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for Recovery of Public Properties (SPIP).