The Federal House of Representatives has collectively given a nod for the upgrade of the Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo to a university.The unanimous support by members of the lower chamber of he National Assembly came today after member representing Atiba/Afijio/Oyo East/Oyo West Federal Constituency, Prince Akeem Adeniyi Adeyemi, had presented a motion, citing the need to cater for persons living with disabilities.
Adeyemi, in the motion titled: “Call for upgrade of the Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, to the status of a university,” said that since there is no university in Nigeria that caters for these special set of Nigerians, it is safe to assume that they must have been finding it difficult to adapt to the present university system in Nigeria.
According to the lawmaker, FCE (Special) Oyo, which was founded in 1977, is the only higher institution in the country and in sub-Sahara Africa for Special Education, thus the need to upgrade the institution to a university so as to fully cater for the educational needs of the special people in the country.
The motion was unanimously supported by the House which directed its Committee on Tertiary Education to liaise with the National Universities Commission (NUC) with the aim of setting up the machinery for the upgrade of institution. [myad]
