A Professor of Industrial and Commercial Law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (San) , Joe Abugu, has lashed out at the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its stance on the conferment of professorial status on the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, by the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO).

The National Executive Committee of ASUU had set aside the findings by its FUTO chapter which had endorsed the procedure for the conferment of the professorial rank.

In a position paper titled: ‘Of University Autonomy, Meddlesomeness of ASUU and its War Against Prof. Ibrahim Isa Pantami’, Abugu, a lecturer at the University of Lagos, argued that the local chapter of ASUU did an excellent job in reminding the public that FUTO duly advertised the vacant positions in credible national dailies, and when Pantami applied, the relevant bodies vetted his credentials and gave him the appointment on merit.

He argued further that all over the world and in Nigeria as well, there are no strict general rules guiding the procedure for professorial appointment that all universities in a country must obey, adding that each institutions of learning sets its own rules and that the Vice Chancellor also has certain discretionary powers to use when necessary.

Quoting relevant laws guiding the operations of trade unions like ASUU and universities like FUTO, the SAN said futher that t[b]here is even nowhere in the statute books where ASUU is mentioned as an important decision or opinion making body in the procedure of appointing university professors. [/b]

“By section 3 of the Federal Universities of Technology Act 1993, the University shall have power to inter alia institute professorships, readerships or associate professorships, lecture-ships, and other posts and offices and to make appointments thereto; and by section 6, the Council shall be the governing body of the University and shall be charged with the general control and superintendence of the policy, finances and property of the University’’.

It is clear, therefore, that ASUU has no power to institute or confer professorship. It is noteworthy that the University Council comprises two representatives of the congregation of teachers. Whilst the Congregation is the body of academics in the University, it is not synonymous with ASUU. It can be taken for granted though that through these representatives of Congregation, ASUU may have a voice in the conferment of Professorships but not ASUU as a Union.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/02/law-professor-defends-pantami-professorial-status-faults-ASUU/

Ok

The matter clearly falls outside ASUU's jurisdiction but people don't want to say the truth. If NUC or some other similar body has issues with the professorship then that's understandable but not ASUU.

how much Pantami give you?

This one is yapping partisan legal yen yen yen.

Envelop has exchange hands. So we know why the prof de ginger. Professor without publications

Oga calm down,no brown envelope for you.

Only a dumb person can defend the fake professorship of Pantami.

Paid to defend fraud shameless fraudfessor