Minister of Works and Housing,
Babatunde Fashola, has advised Vice-Chancellors in Nigeria universities to stop
giving honorary degrees incessantly.
He also urged them to channel the
data in their confines to guide the government, the private sector and citizens
on national development.
The minister spoke on Tuesday
during a meeting with the Association of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian
Universities.
“The world is chasing, collating
data; this data is sitting in our universities. Almost every lecturer asks
students to write one research paper or the other. We can use it in a useful
form, to inform our government, businessmen, and the society,” he said.
He confirmed that the ministry
intervened in the building of roads in 44 tertiary institutions.
Fashola regretted that while
Nigerians criticize the Buhari government on the state of roads, no university
has come out to inform the public on the interventions.
He counseled the VCs to be
discreet in the award of honourary degrees and give only deserving people, not
those whose achievement is the occupation of a political office.
Fashola also advised them to
bring Professors together to write an acceptable version of the Nigerian
history that will be taught in schools like it was done in some other climes.
Leader of the delegation,
Professor Yakubu Aboki Ochefu, said the association, established in 1962 and
had the Universities of Ibadan, Lagos, Ife, Nsukka and Ahmadu Bello at
inception, now has 174 universities.
Ochefu announced plan to produce
a compendium on the 60th anniversary of the association in Nigeria.
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