ASUU is perennially in the news and sometimes for the very wrong reasons. Two recent events precipitate this piece. The first is the resolution to yet embarking on another strike over the Federal Government’s indisposition to honour agreements. Whilst this may be within the legal objects of ASUU, quite a number of members have questioned…
Poorly funded state and private universities abound. One would also have expected the Union to galvanize students, parents and alumni to join forces in the quest for improved infrastructural funding of universities. Instead, it carries on with an air of superior paternity of knowing it all. The putative strike just declared has also raised the issue of the lobby machinery of ASUU in achieving its demands or put differently, whether it has fully exploited all other avenues for averting a strike.
A University Governing Council is the supreme governing body of each University. The Council is responsible for making policies and decisions for the good of the University and the general management of the affairs of the University lies with the Council. The Council has the authority and power to do and facilitate anything that will better the university community, including making rules and regulations for students and staff of the University.
As a registered trade union under the Trade Union Act, its Rule book neither contains any clause conferring powers of certification of academic titles nor the power to declare one, illegal. The autonomy of the University and insulation from interference by meddlesome interlopers can be found in the Universities Act 2003, commonly referred to as the Universities Autonomy Act.
Every University independently follows different procedures, rules and regulations in the conferment of a professorship. In Nigeria, the Vice-Chancellor is an automatic member and chairman of the Appointment and Promotion Committee. The Vice-Chancellors wield major influences in the conferment of academic titles.
In the United States, at Harvard University, there’s an internal and external appointment of professors which is akin to the practice in Nigeria Universities and in some institutions an independent commission is charged with recommending candidates for appointment. To ascertain whether due process was applied in the appointment of Dr. Isa Ibrahim as a Professor of Cybersecurity by the Governing Council of FUTO and submit a report within seven days.The panel requested for and obtained two week extension to enable the panel complete the assignment.i. Copies of the advertisement for academic and academic support staff vacancies in FUTO for the positions of professor, reader, senior lecturer, etc.
Kept going against this man. Instead of them to invest their energy into something else. They never mentioned all of his achievements since he assumed office as Minister for Communications and Digital Economy Nigeria🇳🇬. Nothing but Political Malicious Games from ASUU.