…as FG expands health training, ends campus unrest By Joseph Erunke, Abuja The Federal Government has declared that education will serve as the engine room of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s ambitious plan to build a $1 trillion Nigerian economy, unveiling far-reaching reforms aimed at producing a globally competitive workforce, expanding admissions into health institutions, and sustaining industrial peace across the nation’s universities. Tunji Alausa, who disclosed this during an interview at the weekend, said the administration was fundamentally restructuring Nigeria’s education sector to transform the country’s youthful population into a highly skilled workforce capable of driving economic growth at home while supplying quality manpower to Africa and the global labor market. According to him, President Tinubu’s unprecedented investments in education, skills development, and human capital are designed to position Nigeria as a leading exporter of skilled professionals.
“We want to be the manpower supplier of the world. We need to produce competent, skilled, and educated young Nigerians who will drive our economy, contribute to Africa’s growth, and compete successfully across the world,” the minister said. In one of the administration’s most significant interventions, Alausa revealed that annual admissions into nursing schools have surged from about 20,000 to nearly 50,000 students, describing the expansion as part of deliberate efforts to address Nigeria’s chronic shortage of healthcare professionals.
He added that admissions into medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry had also been significantly increased, expressing confidence that the reforms would, within a few years, eliminate the country’s manpower deficit in the health sector as thousands of newly trained professionals graduate into the workforce. The minister described education as the cornerstone of President Tinubu’s economic blueprint, insisting that the country’s aspiration of becoming a trillion-dollar economy cannot be realized without massive investment in human capital. “As the president advances his vision of building a one trillion-dollar economy, education will remain at the center of that transformation,” he stated.
Alausa also assured Nigerians that the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has been structured to outlive the current administration, saying sustaina…
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