Chris Maiyaki, Acting Executive Secretary of the NUC, offered the reasons on Friday in a lecture at the Igbinedion University, Edo State.
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EEDC, in a disconnection notice seen by The Eagle Online on Friday, advised them to clear the bills on or before June 10, 2024.
They gave the warning during a virtual meeting organised with their leaders on Sunday evening by the Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria, EWAN.
He made the promise at a meeting with the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission and Vice-Chancellors of federal universities in Abuja.
“This kind of meeting is necessary considering the fact that it is a new government, new assembly, new committee and new committee’s leadership,” he said.
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The Federal Government FG has announced an increment in the salary for staff of tertiary institutions.
The Public Relations Officer of NAPTAN, Dr. Ademola Ekundayo, disclosed this in an interview with The PUNCH.
The bills, which scaled second reading on the floor of the House presided over by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, were committed to the House Committee on Education (Tertiary) to report back in two weeks.
This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by Okebukola, a former Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission and Chairman, Governing Council of the National Open University of Nigerian.
The fund said the fund was meant to bolster the conduct of cutting-edge researches in the nation’s tertiary institutions.
Sunmonu said this in a statement he issued after its National Executive Council meeting and made available to newsmen on Saturday in Lagos.
Also passed were two bills to establish the University of Technology, Auchi, Edo State; and Federal College of Education, Giwa, Kaduna State.
The union expressed this concern amidst the increasing cases of Coronavirus Disease across the country.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences Commission said it has uncovered how eight Universities and Teaching Hospitals padded their personnel budget with over N7 billion.
Mariam Katagum, the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment has urged private investors to help Nigerian universities to design a curricular that suit their job requirements in order to create employment.
The Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN), has said universities cannot continue to survive on government largesse, adding that they must learn to invest and improve on revenue generation.
The Universities, according to the Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, who briefed State House correspondents after the meeting on Wednesday, are: Augustine University, Ilara, Lagos State; Chrisland University, Owode, Ogun State; Christopher University, Mowe, Ogun State; Hallmark University, Ijebu Itele, Ogun State; Kings University, Ode Omu, Osun State; Michael and Cecilia Ibru University, Orode, Delta State; Mountain Top University, Ogun State; Ritman University, Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom State; and Summit University, Offa, Kwara State
Jonathan made the call in Nsukka, Enugu State on Saturday at the 44th conferment of higher degree and award of honorary degrees to three eminent Nigerians
He said that adequate funding of universities was imperative in order to enhance teaching and research in them for the benefit of the nation
The Chairperson of the Committee, Fatima Ahmed, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja at the opening of a training programme for members of the committee