Fasagba Femi, provost, Kogi State College of Education Ankpa, has commended the federal government for allowing College of Education to run degree programmes alongside with the training of National Certificate of Education (NCE) teachers.

Fasagba gave the commendation while speaking with journalists shortly after receiving the award of excellence by the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kofi State Council in Lokoja over the weekend.

He disclosed the importance of the College of Education in educational system cannot be over emphasized, adding that the college have been saddled with responsibility of training the teachers.

He equally noted that although some specific colleges of education have been selected to pilot the federal government’s new directives, noting that the state governments are not leaving any stone unturned to enable them key into the new policy.