Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Chairman of Council, Crawford University and Chairman, Board of Trustees, Caleb University, Professor Peter Okebukola has thrown his weight behind President Muhammadu Buhari on the need for quality teachers, adding that to reconstruct the shattered education mirror, there are  hard choices we cannot sidestep.

Okebukola, while delivering convocation lecture on Reconstructing the Shattered Education Mirror: Hard Choices We Cannot Sidestep  at the  McPherson University said: ‘’Between 1965 and 1970, Nigeria contributed the highest in Africa to the international literature in science, engineering, medicine, social sciences and arts.’’ He posited that two major factors conspired to trigger off what is now regarded as the tipping point for poor quality. The first, he noted was the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) which brought in its wake, the devaluation of the naira, adding: “More or less overnight, the money available to educational institutions especially universities depreciated by about 200%.”

Source : Vanguard