President Muhammadu Buhairi on Saturday reiterated that the era of wasteful spending was over and advised Nigerian universities to plough available resources into teaching, research and productive activities.
The president, represented by Prof. Chiedu Mafiana, Executive Director at the National University Commission, spoke in Ilorin at the 32nd convocation of the University of Ilorin.
According to him, it is the expectation of government that in the near future, universities should be self-reliant and provide substantial portion of their needed funds.
Buhari also said that government was deeply concerned about developments in the nation’s universities.
“Government is uncomfortable that our citadels of learning which should be training
grounds for probity, social justice and decorum have become havens for gross indiscipline, cultism, sexual harassment, immorality, indecency, violence, unnecessary demonstrations and all forms of anti-social behaviours.”
The president stressed the need for a proper communication channel between students and management to enable both parties interact, dialogue and consult freely.
“This will help to engender peace, tolerance, orderliness, self-discipline, sobriety and attitudinal change in our institutions of higher learning.’’
Buhari warned leaders of universities that they would be held responsible for every positive and negative actions in their respective institutions.
He told the graduates that the country does not have the means to provide jobs for all of them.
Buhari appealed to them to strive to engage in one form of productive activity or the other, adding that the present economic recession is not peculiar to Nigeria.
He said the socio-economic situation has been brought about by our collective failure
as a people, dependency on oil exports to the exclusion of other products.
The president explained that the administration was doing everything possible to restructure the economy and change our ways of doings things.
The Vice Chancellor, Prof Abdul Ganiyu Ambali, said that the university would inaugurate 20 projects, 12 of them executed with Internally Generated Revenue.
He appealed to the graduates to be hard working and be active in the university alumni activities.
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MUMU! Continue to gather our common wealth for the NORTH. Spending billions of dollars to look for Crude oil in a region where cattle is abundant.
ReplyDeleteYou will never achieve your aim of developing your impoverish North with our resources.
Ogun kill you and your generation!
Ur name sound more like mumu sef! Ur generation and the ones that is yet to come can never achieve what Buhari hv achieved. U are the reason why they call igbos bad names ewu Hausa, oke nkpi! Always on this blog spewing rubbish. Nkita lifo gi nsi dere!
DeleteWe Nigerians Love free things and now so Lazy to the Extend that even States couldn't think of just One thing to generate income and we're soooo corrupt that some Nigerians support someone found guilty of Corruption.
ReplyDeleteBut I think now our Lazy sleeping brain is Waking up.
Is the era of foxex round tripping by your cohorts over too?
ReplyDeleteIs the era of indicted corrupt people holding sway in your cabinet over also?
Is the era of wasteful unnesecarry trips over Baba?
Is the era of clueless policy less incompetent vendatta Familism government over also?
APC government has brought another word into theNigeria political space. In the past political scientist were worried about the tendency of parties and government to be tribalistic in orientation but now APC government has introduced Familism.
Junaid Mohammad had eloquently touched on this dangerous trend or phenomenon in this APC misadventure.
Changi dole!
Sai Baba!
Sai Tinubu!
Isiewu ur own mumu and stupidity no get part 2 at all. Pipo like u make them to think that many igbos are illiterate. Go to LIB and see ur brothers fooling themselves there, when u visit ur brother freeborn abi na mumu be that im name go welcom u to their club, ewu
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Deletegod bless u.
Better still go n hug shiroro plant
Wailing wailers! Na hunger de worry you people and hunger affects reasoning. I can understand una disappointment and frustration. Sorry oo! Pele! You were some of those who donated their life savings for Baba and APC campaigns. Hahahaha! Pele! Sebi una also trekked from Lagos to Futa Jallon. Make una trek again. Hunger don they show una shege!
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APC! Werepe change!
Chanji dole!
Sai Baba!
Sai Tinubu!
Change begins with you, Buhari. Bribery collected by your relations from companies, such as MTN ends up spent wastefully -- not to our benefit. Start from there.
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ReplyDeleteArrest every body both let me tell u that is death that is waiting for u
ReplyDeleteMumu president My God kill you
ReplyDeleteMumu, u r nt ashame u worship a killer God. Foolish man. Keep making jest of ur God till he kills u
Delete@El-Matosky now who be mumu between you and Mr. president, you don't even know how the so called resources of yours was developed. it was the northern resources they used to develop your region. MUMU
ReplyDeleteWhere you there when the Northern wealth was used to develop those things. You northerners hate someone who tells the truth. Buhari and APC is a total failure and dissappointment to Nigerians, simple!
ReplyDeleteU guys are fight on nothing. Is that what u are going to contribute to this nation?. Acussations and counter accusations. What we need is constructive criticism pls.
ReplyDeleteMr President don't you ever get tired of lying. All the parties your children held in New York brought dividends to Nigerians. Alh. Information minister went to China to fetch us dividends. Please face the confusion you are generating in the economy
ReplyDeleteA Government that conducts Exams and awards marks for itself...What an APC, what a Shame...!!! Well,as events are unfolding...
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