The Edo State owned College of
Education, Ekiadolor has been renamed Tayo Akpata University of
Education in honour of a former Commissioner for Education in the
defunct Bendel State, Chief Tayo Akpata by the state government.
Announcing the new development during
the funeral service of the late elder statesman in Benin, the Edo
State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole said that the state government’s
decision was as a result of his (Akpata) contributions to the
development of the state.
He said that the renaming of the
university would serve as an inspiration to youths, whom he advised to
emulate the virtues of the late Akpata, who was also a one-time
Executive Secretary of the defunct Petroleum Trust Fund and the first
Chairman of the National Youth Service Corps (Mid-West State) in 1975.
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