President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointments of at least 555 persons to serve as Pro-chancellors/Chairmen and members of Governing Boards of 111 federal universities, polytechnics and Colleges of Education.
This followed Tinubu’s assent to a list of nominees selected
by the Ministry of Education.
An advertorial by the Education Ministry sighted by NE showed the appointment of a chairperson and four members for each of the
institutions.
It was signed by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mrs.
Didi Esther Walson-Jack.
“The inauguration and retreat for the Governing Councils
will take place on Thursday, May 30 and Friday, May 31, 2024, at the National
Universities Commission, 26 Aguiyi Ironsi Street, Maitama, Abuja. Both events
will commence at 9:00am daily,” said Walson-Jack.
When contacted for confirmation, the Presidency said the
list emanated from the Ministry of Education.
“This is from the
Federal Ministry of Education…they make the nominations and forward them to the
President to sign. But they are at liberty to release it from their end,” the
President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, told our
correspondent on Saturday.
The appointments come days after the Academic Staff Union of
Universities had threatened to embark on another strike, potentially disrupting
the academic calendar and causing further setbacks in the country’s higher
education sector.
The union, on Tuesday, decried the failure of the Federal
Government to appoint Governing Councils for federal universities.
The union also faulted what it described as the nonchalant
attitude of the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to matters about
academics in federal universities.
The body of academics, during a briefing at the University
of Abuja, also faulted the 35 per cent salary increment for professors and the
25 per cent salary increment for other academics in the university system.
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