Ogun State government this morning announced the scrapping of Tai Solarin University of Education, TASUED, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode which was established by the former administration of Otunba Gbenga Daniel.
The institution has now been renamed
Institute of Education affliated to Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago Iwoye.
The government also directed that the school be relocated from its present site in Ijagun to Omu-Ijebu.
The government has also taken the decision the four ICT polytechnic established by the Daniel-led administration will be merged and renamed Ogun State Institute of Technology, to be located at Igbesa in Ado-Ado-Ota Local Government Area of the state.
He said the other campuses of Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic, Ijebu Igbo, P.S. Adegbenro in Itori and Adebutu Kessington in Saapade will remain campuses.
The Tai Solarin College of Education was upgraded into a University of Education by the last administration of Olugbenga Daniel in 2005.
The old Tai Solarin College of Education (TASCE) was established in 1978 as Ogun State College of Education to produce the middle level manpower for the schools and colleges in the state and Nigeria.
Students of TASUED in protest took to the streets of Abeokuta this morning immediately they heard the announcement. They later marched to the NUJ press centre to address the press on the issue.
The students carried various placards with inscriptions such as “Fight OGD leave education,” “you kill TASUED, you kill education,” “Governor Amosun, don’t be a dictator,” "Don't Play Politics With our future" among others.
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