The Federal Government has approved the sum of N400 billion for infrastructural development and provision of basic needs for Nigerian universities in line with its plans to make them meet international standards.
President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) Comrade Samson Ugwoke stated this at the weekend while addressing union members at SSANU’s National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held at the University of Abuja.
Ugwoke said document on the approval will be made available today at the meeting of the Presidential Committee on Implementation of the needs assessment in the universities with the leaders of SSANU, National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
While briefing members on the activities of the Governor Gabriel Suswam’s led universities needs assessment implementation committee, Ugwoke said the mentioned sum is different from the N100 billion Governor Suswam has raised to tackle the problems of Nigerian universities in the year 2013.
“Let me give you a tip of what the Needs Assessment Committee is doing. The President has approved that within the next ...............


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I hope the Fund is judiciously utilized

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