FG may transfer UNI-Abuja students to other varsities



The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, on Thursday announced that students of the suspended faculties of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Engineering of the University of Abuja, might be transferred to other institutions.

Rufai said the Federal Government would take this decision if at the end of six months, the university authorities were unable to meet accreditation requirements.

Rufai made government’s position known at a meeting with representatives of students of the university.

She also announced the setting up of a task team to liaise with the authorities of the University of Abuja to fast-track the provision of the necessary facilities.

She, however, said, government was yet to shift ground on its earlier suspension of three faculties of the university.

The minister said officials of the ministry, the NUC and TetFund would on Monday meet with regulatory bodies such as the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, the Veterinary Council of Nigeria and Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria to decide the way forward.

Rufai said, “The point is that these programmes will have to remain suspended; until in the next two, three months when we see progress of work done, I will not take any chance.

“We will continue our meetings with the various professional bodies in terms of preparations in case the six months period does not work.

“It is our hope based on what NUC has said and based on what the VC is saying that things may be fixed within this room we have given the university.

“Meanwhile, we will have a task team that will be working with NUC and the university to facilitate the possibility of having this accreditation and facilities. But in case it doesn’t work, we may have no option like you stated but to distribute you to various universities where we may have accreditation already in place.”

According to her, the VC is also required to fix the problems affecting other faculties within the university.

The minister however told the students, “Our wish is that even if you do not complete your education in University of Abuja, the programmes will not be scrapped, they will have to remain suspended until all the facilities required are provided.”

In his remarks, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Julius Okojie, said with political will, appreciable progress could be made within the period.

Earlier, President of the University of Abuja Medical Students’ Association, Uchenna Anyanwu, read a resolution arrived at after a meeting of the body on the issue.

While appealing to the minister to give the Vice- Chancellor the needed support to meet the six months deadline, the students expressed a desire to be transferred elsewhere if this option fails.


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lol. we may not be needing ending students as liabilities in a long long time

And what about students of other universities whose programs are not accredited? Will they be transfered too or they will have to block roads too before the govt listen to them

Transfer or not, all we need is a quality education!

They will make a decision in 6months!!!
In the meantime what will the students be doing, especially those graduating this year!

Basics007: And what about students of other universities whose programs are not accredited? Will they be transfered too or they will have to block roads too before the govt listen to them

LOL!

And this is a University in the nation's capital that should be a center of excellence

This is wat we hear everyday when incompetent ppl are in power....president is zero,minister of edu is zero...vc uni abj zero...

They just sit and watch things fail before they start looking for solution. They will never avoid failure, they attract it.

mangbede: This is wat we hear everyday when incompetent ppl are in power....president is zero,minister of edu is zero...vc uni abj zero...

and u re zero for blamin d minister for president for a matter that is sole responsiblity of d vc...

Ournaija: They just sit and watch things fail before they start looking for solution. They will never avoid failure, they attract it.

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well said; in naija, everyone is used to fire brigade approach

pssword: They will make a decision in 6months!!!
In the meantime what will the students be doing, especially those graduating this year!

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many universities in Nigeria have the same problem; do not know why UNIABUJA is being singled out. This people want to play politics with the lives of the students. With the talk of carrying capacity one wonders where and how the transfers would be done.

in all ramtificatn,from social 2 economy,educatn 2 security and agriculture 2 whatever require governancing by this state call 9ja has become a tales of bitterness,it is no longer interesting.failure of attractions rules this day,right from presidency.

buzor:
and u re zero for blamin d minister for president for a matter that is sole responsiblity of d vc...

Ol boy,d sickness start from the top go down o,not from the bottom or middle.

I thought we always criticize the quality of education on NL, so why are we critizing the minister for trying to clean the augean stable again?


I think similar audit shoul dbe carried out on other universities as well and I am sure Nigerian students will be better for it at the end of the day.

God help us

Pls anybody know when other students will resume accademics. Cos they have not said anything concerning the part that they have close down close... Hope we won't wait for Six months.

Why would our schools start programs without proper accreditation

And what will those student do? Hummm!

In a country where just 5 people embezzle over 200 billion of Naira PTF fund, with over 155 billion recovered, what a shame on a nation!

I'm lost here...pls, is UNIABUJA not a 'federal' school? run by same federal govt? How come they run courses without d supposed 'accreditation'?

Basics007: And what about students of other universities whose programs are not accredited? Will they be transfered too or they will have to block roads too before the govt listen to them

truth is: they are getting this whole attention cos its Abuja.
1. All eyes on them kind of thing, d press, d whole world is watching.
2. Some people in power have their kids affected.

If not, d case ll soon die off. Naija, we hail thee

This is suppose to be a federal school, accredited by the federal government and funded by the federal government. They just want to punish the innocent students. Another way to express our inadequacies as a nation.

it is hard to find a picture of university of abuja online. even they dont have a website.

Musiwa,,:
it is hard to find a picture of university of abuja online. even they dont have a website.

Satellite images go dey now Musiwa

As long as we have thieves as VCs, registrars, bursars and officials of the Ministry of Education, the standard of education will continue to fail. These people have no conscience. They are not bothered about the future of the youths. They are only interested in how much they get from the system. The VC of Uni-Abuja and collaborating principal officers must be sacked for progress to be made.

buzor:
and u re zero for blamin d minister for president for a matter that is sole responsiblity of d vc...

Very unfortunate that you do not know who is the visitor of that place. Where is the gain of the subsidy they removed.

Somebody should gag the mouth of people in this govt. They too de messs.

Hahahaha.....Eparipa.....I don die...oooo. And what about the six new universities this administration is setting up throughout the Federation, when the existing ones are poorly funded and supervised? I have no comment but I do know that one day they will also transfer the students to other universities.

Evry course in uni abuja is not accredited. God why pls save dis country.