{"id":64441,"date":"2024-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/?guid=8bd01ae54d91493488ee960ea6e71d50"},"modified":"2024-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"nigeria-needs-visionary-leaders-to-save-education-from-imminent-collapse-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricavoice.com\/nigeria-needs-visionary-leaders-to-save-education-from-imminent-collapse-author\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria needs visionary leaders to save education from imminent collapse – Author"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nAn author and a retired Executive Director, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Dr Bulus Danmagaji, says the nation’s education sector needs visionary leadership to save it from imminent collapse.<\/p>\n
Danmagaji, who also served as Human Resource Manager, Power Holding Company of Nigeria, spoke in Abuja on Saturday at the launching of a book titled: ‘Leadership and Education Reform in Nigeria’.<\/p>\n
The author said the education sector would continue to experience a mirage until the problem of leadership and education quality were adequately tackled.<\/p>\n
According to him, education is the most powerful weapon to change the world and Nigerians must learn from the past leadership failure to transform the sector.<\/p>\n
‘The corridor of the entire system is in confusion and it is from leadership. How much attention do we give to education and what is the quality of the attention?<\/p>\n
‘We must work hard to give birth to effective human capital else we will wake up one day and there will be nobody.<\/p>\n
‘We need visionary and committe
\nd leaders to transform the sector,’ Danmagaji said.<\/p>\n
He said if one has corrupt leadership, one will have corrupt followers and if the leadership is committed to education, the country’s future and the future of children will be secured.<\/p>\n
Also, a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mrs Sarah Alade called on the government to give priority to education by injecting more funds into the sector.<\/p>\n
‘We need quality education in this country to survive. Whatever we are going to do, unless we have that human capital development, we will not get anywhere.<\/p>\n
‘At the moment, we need to give education priority by putting more money in the budget for education going by the percentage of GDP.<\/p>\n
‘We must have safe schools and ensure that every child that is of school age also goes to school if we are going to make progress,’ Alade said.<\/p>\n
In the same vein, the book reviewer, Dr Philip Hayab, said the application of poor administration had impeded the sector, hence the need for a new strategy to correct the e
\nrrors.<\/p>\n
Hayab, a research fellow at the Institute of Peace and Conflict Resolution, said that the country’s education system needed embodied philosophical ideas that would foster the worth of individual development.<\/p>\n
He explained that the book challenged the way children interact with technology while recommending a national conference to access the education policy that would advance the future of education in the country.<\/p>\n
Source: News Agency of Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An author and a retired Executive Director, Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Dr Bulus Danmagaji, says the nation’s education sector needs visionary leadership to save it from imminent collapse.<\/p>\n
Danmagaji, who also served as Human Resource Manag…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n