By Gloria Ikibah
The House of Representatives has passed for first reading “A Bill For An Act To Amend The Federal Colleges of Education Act No. 43, 2023. To establish the Federal College Of Education (Special) Dukku, Gombe State; And For Related Matters Sponsored by Rep, Abdullahi El-Rasheed.
This bill seeks to amend the Federal Colleges of Education Act No. 43, 2023 (in this Bill federal Colleges referred to as the “Principal Act”).
The First Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by inserting Amendment of First Schedule after the existing paragraph (y), a new paragraph “(z)”to the Principal Act “(z)” Federal College of Education (Special) Dukku, Gombe State”.
This Bill may be cited as Federal Colleges of Education Act (Amendment) Bill, 2024.
This Bill seeks to amend the Federal Colleges of Education Act No. 43, 2023, to establish Federal College of Education (Special) Dukku, Gombe State.
According to Rep. Rasheed in an interview, there is the need to establish the Federal College of Education (Special) to complement the already existing Federal College of Education in Oyo State.
The FCE Special train teachers that will be able to teach persons with disability and special needs in primary and secondary schools.
He said: “The major thing is that it is an institution we want to establish in Nigeria. This institution, we only have one of it in this country which is in Oyo State, Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo, is meant to train teachers that can teach people with disability and special needs.
“So having it in the Northern part of Nigeria specifically in that area because already the one in Oyo is over stretched, and you know the percentage of people living with disability more especially all these sigh language, they don’t have much teachers and the percentage is always coming up. So the main this is to establish that school so that it can compliment the other school in the Southwest of Nigeria”.
The bill when passed into law will make the federal college of education in Nigeria two in number serving teachers in the Northern and Southern part of the country respectively.