Universities

How Absence Of Governing Councils In Nigerian Federal Universities Turned Vice-Chancellors To Semi-gods, Enhanced Corruption – Report

8 months ago1037 min

The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (Intersociety) has condemned the absence of duly and lawfully constituted Governing Councils in the Nigerian government (federal) universities, polytechnics, monotechnics, Colleges of Education and other degree awarding institutions. The civic organisation said this in a report on Friday titled: “Absence of governing councils in federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education: vice chancellors, rectors and provosts now demigods and...

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Vice President Osinbajo Charges Universities in Nigeria With Funding, Marketing

2 years ago967 min

Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, Nigeria’s Vice President, has challenged universities in Nigeria to work aggressively to raise funds and market their institutions, claiming that no government in the world can fund universities to the extent that is required. On Tuesday, he issued the challenge at the Kessington Adebukunola Adebutu Foundation, KAAF, Auditorium, Department of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Ibadan. Sir Kessington Adebutu, a Nigerian philanthropist, donated the auditorium. Insisting that government budgeting would not...