Daily Trust

Universiti­es for Army, Navy, Maritime coming -Education minister

- From Ismail Adebayo, Birnin Kebbi

The Federal Government is set to establish four more universiti­es in the country.

Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu said yesterday that three of the universiti­es were for the Army, Navy and Maritime respective­ly and would take off soon.

The minister dropped the hint during the pally between the Federal Government and the Progressiv­e Governors Forum on Policy Synergy held in Birnin Kebbi, explaining that the setting up of the universiti­es was in line with the policy of the present administra­tion to boost education in all spheres.

The minister who said that the administra­tion needed N4.2 trillion to fund the country’s education sector, appealed state government­s to pay their counterpar­t funds to access their funds to realize the promise on education made by the APC to the people of Nigeria. to

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