Lagos — The Minister of Education, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachuku will pay a two-day working visit to the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA), Ondo, tomorrow and Friday, Friday June 6.

The Institute's Principal Public Relation Officer, Sola Ebire said in a release that, "the Minister will commission some laudable projects put in place by the Institute; among which are, New Council Chamber, New Directorate, Ultra Modern ICT centre and Participants' Guest Houses."

NIEPA was conceived by the Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning, Paris, as a sub-regional staff college with the main operational mandate and mission to develop a critical mass of education sector planners and managers for the effective and efficient planning and management of educational system, through consulting, research and information dissemination and resource centre service was adjudged the best education parastatal of year 2007 in a wide range-opinion poll conducted by the Nigerian Education Times last December, for effectively carrying out its mandate.