The Speaker of the Bauchi StateHouse of Assembly Rt. Honourable Abubakar Suleiman has commended the Tertiary
Education TrustFund (TETFUND) Executive Secretary, Professor Suleiman EliasBogoro for his unprecedented intervention in the education sector in BauchiState.A press statement issued toWikkiTimes by the Speaker’s Spokesman, Comrade Abdul Burra said his Principalmade the commendation on Friday when the TETFUND boss commissioned projectsworth millions of naira in the institution.
The Speaker called on themanagement of the polytechnic to build an edifice and name it after him.
“I have gone round tertiaryinstitutions in the State and have seen how the Fund has massively transformedthe institutions with befitting edifices, equipments and human resourcedevelopment”, the speaker said.
While applauding the executive secretaryof the fund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro for his patriotism and contribution tothe development of Bauchi State, the speaker said; “I know ProfessorBogoro for long and I am not surprised when I see what he has been doing foreducation and development in Bauchi State.”
He described Professor Bogoro asa true son of the soil, saying that, “he is always looking for way tocontribute toward the development of his State.”
On manpower development in whichthe fund sponsored over 300 staff of the Institution for PhD, MSc and otherinterventions, the Speaker congratulated the staff and urged them toreciprocate the gesture by being hardworking and committed in impartingknowledge to students.
In his remarks, the Rector ofAbubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic Bauchi Dr Sulaiman Mohammed Lame thanked theExecutive Secretary for revamping the education sector in the Polytechnic,Bauchi State and the Country at large.
He said ATAP under his leadershiphas successfully mobilized its scarce financial and human resources to achieve100% accreditation of all its courses and expand students’ enrolment.
“I am delighted to informyou that we have transformed from one accredited course (ND Computer Science)to accreditation of 116 courses at National Diploma, Higher National Diploma,NCE and degree levels. This giant achievement was possible through the Fund’smassive intervention”, the Rector said.
Dr. Lame further seeks for moresupport from TETFUND in construction of staff offices, laboratories, workshops,hostels, school buses and sports complex.
In his Speech, the executive secretaryof TETFUND Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro commended the management of thePolytechnic for the judicious use of all the resources mobilized to it by theFund.
The executive secretary said hehas never imagined that ATAP has reached the advance stage of developmentsaying that the Polytechnic can compete with any polytechnic in the country.
He pledged that the fund underhis leadership will continue to give more interventions in tertiary institutionsacross the country.
Professor Bogoro assured thestaff of the Polytechnic that the Fund is coming up with many policies andprogrammes for their development and will soon resolve all issues surroundingscholars stranded in some foreign institutions.
He added that with the Fund’sachievement in erecting structures in all higher institutions in the country,they will now concentrate equipping those structures.