Nigeria’s academic institutions and teaching hospitals have been at loggerheads with electricity distribution companies over high tariffs. At a time, ABU was said to be owing more than N2 billion, UNILAG owing over a billion. And in May alone, Babcock University received N300 million bill while LUTH/CMUL received N285 million for the same month. Similar situations led to shutdown of UNIBEN, and power disconnection in YABATECH, LUTH, and in fact, a court order once dispossessed ABU of its assets until the govt intervened.
Across primary and secondary schools, classrooms no longer have lights due to the same challenge. But no nation can grow beyond the quality of her education, yet there can be no meaningful education without stable power supply.
For more insight, please join the Education WRITERS Association on WEDNESDAY, 23-10-2024 as it hosts the Minister of Power, Chief Adebayo Adelabu, his education and health counterparts- Professors Tahir Mamman and Muhammad Pate among other critical stakeholders in the power, education and health sectors for an interesting lecture at the University of Lagos at 10 am prompt.