Granting full autonomy to universities right step – Tinubu
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led administration has said it plans to grant full autonomy to universities. Abubakar Momoh, minister of Niger Delta Affairs, revealed this at the 48th convocation of the University of Benin. The minister represented President Tinubu at the event.
He said, “University autonomy transfers the responsibility performance directly to the individual institution. This administration believes that this is the right step in the right direction,” he said.
“Our administration is poised to change the narrative of higher education for the better and to place the institution of higher learning on a pedestal that would enable them to compete with their counterparts across the world,” he said.
During the ceremony, Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki promised first-class graduates of the institutions, who are of Edo origin, automatic employment in the state’s civil and public service.
University of Benin’s chancellor, Prof. James Ortese Iorzua Ayatse, Tor Tiv V, said the institution faces challenges of funding, poor research opportunities, inadequate academic staff, inadequate infrastructure and corruption.
