President Bola Tinubu has approved the nomination of at least 555 people to serve as Pro-Chancellors/Chairmen and Governing Board members of 111 federal universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education.

This followed Tinubu's approval of a list of nominees selected by the Ministry of Education.

When contacted for confirmation, the Presidency said the list emanated from the Ministry of Education.

“This is from the Federal Ministry of Education…they make the nominations and forward them to the President to sign. But they are at liberty to release it from their end,” the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, told our correspondent on Saturday.

The appointments come days after the Academic Staff Union of Universities had threatened to embark on another strike, potentially disrupting the academic calendar and causing further setbacks in the country’s higher education sector.

The union, on Tuesday, decried the failure of the Federal Government to appoint Governing Councils for federal universities.

The union also faulted what it described as the nonchalant attitude of the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government to matters about academics in federal universities.

The body of academics, during a briefing at the University of Abuja, also faulted the 35 per cent salary increment for professors and the 25 per cent salary increment for other academics in the university system.

Agricmoney:
wow nice one from his Excellency. One day I would be among the list too.



Anyway, Agriculture is life.

Dapromzy333:

https://platinumtimes.ng/breaking-tinubu-appoints-new-governing-councils-for-varsities-full-list/

Digmygold:


I hope you do not share same IQ level with him.

Omodua:
cronyism, ethnic bigotry and nepotism still manifest in the appointment of Board members in Bauchi, ABU, Abeokuta and other Federal universities where people of southeast extraction were excluded. Ironically,North and Southwest have representatives in all federal universities in southeast.

One wonders what.are the exact reasons why southeasterners were skipped in the Boards appointment in some core northern states and Southwest.

wolesmile:

I hope you know the list up there is incomplete. Google the full list.

Sannisege:
The same IQ that outsmarted your whole tribe in the last general elections. Tinubu is greater than all Igbo living or dead.

Omodua:
cronyism, ethnic bigotry and nepotism still manifest in the appointment of Board members in Bauchi, ABU, Abeokuta and other Federal universities where people of southeast extraction were excluded. Ironically,North and Southwest have representatives in all federal universities in southeast.

One wonders what.are the exact reasons why southeasterners were skipped in the Boards appointment in some core northern states and Southwest.

Sannisege:
The same IQ that outsmarted your whole tribe in the last general elections. Tinubu is greater than all Igbo living or dead.

Sannisege:
The same IQ that outsmarted your whole tribe in the last general elections. Tinubu is greater than all Igbo living or dead.