Ibrahim Oyewale in LokojaThe Provost of Kogi State College of Education Ankpa, Dr. Fasagba Femi, has commended the federal government for expanding the scope to allow Colleges of Education 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 Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ), Kogi State Council in Lokoja at the weekend. He explained that the importance of the Colleges of Education in educational system cannot be over emphasised, noting that the colleges have been saddled with responsibility of training the teachers . According to him, the Kogi State Government is already considering harmonisation of the two Colleges of Education in the state, College of Education Technical, Mopa and College of Education, Ankpa, to enable them key into the federal government directives. The provost pointed out that it is not possible for the state Colleges of Education to jump into running degree programmes without reenactment of the law establishing them with earlier mandate to run NCE programmes.