Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has inaugurated the governing council of 13 federal universities.
Inaugurating the councils in Abuja on Monday, the minister charged members to come up with ideas that will boost the internally generated revenue of the universities, which he described as the major area of challenge in Nigeria’s higher institutions.
While charging the councils to comply with federal character in the appointment of staff, he said that they should block all the loopholes through which the internally generated revenues of the universities vanished.
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The newly inaugurated councils are for the Federal university Lokoja, Federal University; Lafia Nasarawa; Federal University, Kashere, Gombe; Federal university Wukari Taraba; Federal University Dutsin Ma, Katsina; Federal University Dutse Jigawa; and Federal University, Ndufu Alike Ebonyi.
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Others are the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Federal University, Otuoke; Federal University, Birin Kebbi; Federal University Gusau; Federal University Zamfara; Federal University Gashua, Yobe; and the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo Benue.
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The minister asked the newly inaugurated council to expect the visit of members of the visitation panels to the universities from next week.
Speaking at the event, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Adamu Rasheed, described the universities as Nigeria’s specialised universities, adding that the inauguration of the council members marked a new beginning in these universities.
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