The Federal Government has inaugurated the recently constituted governing councils for federal tertiary institutions in the country.
The inauguration ceremony was held in Abuja on Thursday, July 4, 2024.
Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman in his keynote address called on the councils to abide by the existing laws guiding their institutions to ensure good management of their institutions.
According to him, the government cannot meet all the needs of institutions so management of institutions must join forces to help the government.
He pleaded with the councils to collaborate with private sector to generate funds for the institutions, noting that the insufficient funding had led to education decline.
In a goodwill message, the Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Bugaje, welcomed the newly inaugurated council members.
Bugaje urged the councils to embrace the fortune of their various institutions and ‘think outside the box’ to create innovative ways of generating funds for their institutions.
While also advising the council members to call the various union groups to order.
He explained that putting the unions ‘in line’ would fast track the achievement of the renewed hope agenda of this administration.
Responding on behalf of Governing councils, the Pro-Chancellor, University of Lagos, Chief Wole Olanipekun, appealed to the federal government to help universities to be more productive.
Olanipekun said universities would only be productive if allowed to manage its internally generated revenue rather than sending the monies to the Treasury Single Accounts (TSA) of the government.
He, therefore, charged his colleagues to build the various institutions while also avoiding any form of rancour between them and the university’s management.
