House Passes Bill to Establish College of Education Aghoro

Shola Oyeyipo

The House of Representatives has passed a bill for an act to provide for the establishment of Federal College of Education (Technical), Aghoro, Bayelsa State.

The committee, presided over by the Speaker, House of Representatives, Honorable Yakubu Dogara recently passed the bill establishing the college.

Some of the provisions of the bill state that: “The college shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal shall have power to acquire and dispose of interests in movable and immovable property and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

“The college shall be a training institution for the development of teacher education in the country, and shall be supervised by the Federal Ministry of Education through the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), which shall be responsible for approving and regulating academic programmes run in the college, to ensure quality compliance and provide infrastructures and remunerations of employees.”

According to the bill, “the objectives of the college are to encourage the advancement of learning; to hold out to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction; develop and offer academic and professional programmes leading to the award of certificates, first degrees, postgraduate degrees, diploma and higher degrees with emphasis on planning, developmental and adaptive skills in education, technology, applied science, agriculture, commerce, arts, social science, humanities, management and allied professional disciplines.”