Nigeria: Sultan Demands Ministry of Higher Education

5 September 2009

Lagos — The Federal Government has been urged to establish a ministry of higher education that would devote its energies and resources to human resource development and human capital formation for rapid growth of the nation.

Alhaji Muhammed Sa'ad Abubakar, Sultan of Sokoto made the call yesterday at the fifth annual lecture of the School of Post-Graduate Studies of the University of Lagos, Akoka.

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