Children’s Day: Prof Adedoja Tasks  Parents on Proper Monitoring, Canvasses Support for Girl-Child Education

A former Minister of Sports and Special Duties, Prof. Taoheed Adedoja, has advised Nigerian parents to be more alert to their responsibilities in constantly guiding their children in the wake of cases of rising bullying, violence, and other social vices in schools.

Adedoja, whose 73rd birthday today, May 27, is celebrated with a focus on welfare support programmes for children, he also enjoined the Federal Government to “pay more attention to girl-child education, with the uncomfortable increase in the number of school dropouts in Nigeria today, “occasioned mostly by the conditions of poverty that strike parents across the country. 

“With the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria that has risen to over 20 million as of this year, I believe that the various educational programmes put in place by the Tinubu administration will be implemented by the latter for these leaders of tomorrow, whose only hope lies in the quality of education they receive during childhood,” Adedoja emphasised.

Prof. Adedoja, an indigene of Ibadan and a Mogaji, born in Kano, Kano State, is a front-line educationist, philanthropist, and politician of repute. He is a former  Oyo State Commissioner for Education and former Pro Chancellor of the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State. He is known for his passion for people with disabilities and has been inundated with birthday tributes and wishes across the country.

In his birthday message, while saluting Adedoja, Prof. Musa Ibrahim, President, Coalition of Technocrats for Good Governance in Nigeria, hailed that,”The records of Prof. Adedoja as a former Dean of Education at Bayero University, Kano, Provost of the Federal College of Education, Special, Oyo, Chairman of Oyo State SUBEB as well as former Chairman of Governing Council of the Federal College of Eduction, Obudu’s, Cross River State, among other public offices he had successfully performed make Prof Taoheed Adedoja a unique personality in Nigeria worth celebrating ,and his character and simplicity deserve emulation.

In another related development, Prof. Adedoja recently led a delegation of the Teachers Continuous Training Institute, Biase, in Cross River State as its Director General to the Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Olanipekun Olukoyede, in Abuja for collaboration on providing high-tech digital skills to repentant “Yahoo boys“ and other categories of youths in Nigeria, with a view to maximally utilising their talents for positive life styles and for the youths formal absorption for global certification for employability, leveraging on their talents that should be positively deplored.