L-R Third prize winner in the Educationwatch essay competition for education students in tertiary institutions, Miss Fatimoh Zahara Yusuf; second prize winner, Mr. Olaogun Taiwo; and the overall winner, Mr. Charles Agbana, during the award presentation ceremony in Lagos.
The 2010 Educationwatch Award held in Lagos, with a professor from the Federal University of
Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Agwu Ukaoha, canvassing for the massive funding of the nation‘s education sector as a way of reinvigorating national development.
The Education award was floated in 2000 by Educationwatch magazine, Nigeria‘s first education magazine, and some professors, to reward distinguished Nigerians who have contributed to the development of the education sector.
At the 2010 award presentation in Lagos, the chairman of the award committee, Prof. Ukaoha, advised the nation‘s leaders to wake up from their slumber and take the education of the citizens more serious.
This call, he said, became imperative because investment in a nation‘s human capital would birth national development.
He said, ”Any country that wants development in its ramifications should depend basically on its sound educational development, as human capital development will lead to national development”
According to him, a nation that desires socio-economic and political development should invest massively in robust education.
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