The Senator representing Nasarawa West, Senator Ahmed Wadada Aliyu, has explained why he is sponsoring a bill for upgrading Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa to Federal University of Mining Engineering and Technology, Nasarawa. Speaking with Newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, Senator Wadada stressed that much as Nigerians need polytechnic education, Nigerians still need university education. He explained that upgrading the institution would not take away the polytechnic structure from there; that is why it ends with technology. Senator Wadada, who said he is a product of polytechnic, says nobody will tell him the importance of polytechnic in society. He noted that for us in Nasarawa to have a university of mining engineering and technology could not have been a misplaced one being a home of solid minerals. He further stressed that governments at all levels are daily looking for ways to diversify sources of revenue from oil to non-oil, and as such, having a university of mining engineering and technology would greatly enhance the place of Nasarawa state amongst the community of states in the Federation since the university would be the first of its kind in Nigeria.While disclosing that the bill for upgrading the polytechnic has since passed the first reading, Senator Wadada also revealed that the bill for the establishment of the federal college of fisheries and aquaculture in Umaisha, Toto local government, has passed the first, second, and third readings and is now awaiting presidential assent.