File photo: Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa.
Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has said the deployment of off-grid solar solutions across educational institutions is helping to improve learning conditions.
The off-grid solutions are being rolled out under the Energising Education Programme, executed by the Rural Electrification Agency.
Speaking during a recent interview on the Afropolitan Podcast, Alausa said unsustainable utility expenditures and persistent national grid failures had historically undermined academic stability, crippled scientific research and lowered the overall standard of campus living.
He explained that delivering a dependable learning environment required taking universities off conventional transmission lines entirely.
