The Minister stated that while UNESCO’s guidelines require the Institute to be affiliated with a university, it will remain autonomous with its governance structure. “As you know, the guidelines of UNESCO ensure that the Institute will not just operate; it has to be attached to a university. Even though it is attached to a university, it also has to run independently and part of the requirements is that there has to be some autonomy for the Institute. Let me assure UNESCO that there will be full autonomy for the Category 2 Media Information Literacy Institute when it fully takes off in Nigeria. “We are committed to that and not only that, we are also putting the building blocks to ensure the corporate sustainability of the institute. Whatever we do, if we are unable to sustain and meet international standards, of course, UNESCO will have to review our status. I want to assure you that we will meet up and uphold all the standards that UNESCO has put in place to have the Category 2 Media Information Literacy Institute in Nigeria,” he said.