Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the craze for the acquisition of foreign education among Nigerian youths must be checked.
This is as he expressed deep concern over the disturbing rate at which Nigerian youths are going abroad to study.
He said it’s highly imperative to halt the trend because Nigeria is losing huge amount of money through the process to other countries.
Sanwo-Olu raised this concern at the grand finale of the 26th convocation ceremony of LASU.
He said Nigeria must make its schools particularly tertiary institutions not only more attractive to Nigerian people but must also make them to be competitive with others at global level.
Governor Sanwo-Olu, who is the visitor to LASU explained that LASU had already taken the path to become a highly rated university in the world ranking by developing its curriculum to meet global socio-economic needs.
He declared that he is in total support of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the Student Loan Act, saying the policy would certainly help indigent students to realise their academic dreams and aspirations.
Governor Sanwo- Olu, however, congratulated all the academic doctorate graduands and the 11 eminent Nigerians, who were conferred with honorary doctoral degrees (Causa) and appreciation awards of the institution at the event.