Inadequate funding, weak laws, others stifling varsity system, says NUC

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National Universities Commission (NUC) disclosed, yesterday, that the Nigerian university system had continued to grapple with challenges

National Universities Commission disclosed, yesterday, that the Nigerian university system had continued to grapple with challenges militating against its optimal performance.National Universities Commission disclosed, yesterday, that the Nigerian university system had continued to grapple with challenges militating against its optimal performance.

Saliu, who delivered a lecture tagged ‘The Nigerian University System and its Many Challenges: The Way Forward,’ said: “In NUC’s bid to continue to carry out its mandates in line with the laws establishing it, the commission has been confronted with some antagonism that was possible because of some loopholes in its laws.

In his remarks, the former Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology, Akure , Prof. Adebisi Balogun, faulted President Tinubu for reviewing members of the governing council of the universities barely one year after the dissolution of the former board. Peoples Democratic Party has faulted the delay in the arrest and prosecution of the former Independent National Electoral Commission Resident Electoral Commissioner in Adamawa State, Hudu Yunusa Ari.

President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, in Abuja made a strong appeal to international development financiers to see Africa as a destination for growth and prosperity. Stakeholders, yesterday, insisted that just and inclusive economic growth remain as the global economy transforms in the face of climate crisis. The global experts, who stated this at a workshop organised by Green Growth Africa

 

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