Visitation Panels To Federal Universities To Be Gazetted – NUC
BY TEMI OHAKWE, ABUJA – The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) Professor Abubakar Rasheed, has said that Visitation Panels to the 38 federal universities and four Inter-University Centres recently approved by the President Muhammadu Buhari, would be gazetted to enable the exercise to be carried out.
Briefing the Quality Assurance Committee of the NUC Board during its meeting in Abuja, Prof. Rasheed said that the Federal Ministry of Education is working with the Justice Ministry to ensure that the gazetting is done expeditiously.
A statement by Ibrahim Yakassai, Director of Corporate Affairs of NUC, quoted Prof. Rasheed as saying that as soon as the gazetting is done, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu would inaugurate the panels after which they would proceed to their respective universities for the assignment.
The NUC boss explained that all federal universities and Inter-University Centres would receive a visitation team with the exception of those created less than five years ago namely, the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, the Army University, Biu and the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo which are not due for such visitation.
Rasheed added that the other universities: the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna, Airforce Institute of Technology (AFIT), Kaduna and the Police Academy, Wudil would also not be visited.
He also said that the audit would cover a period of ten years for all the universities to be visited except for the federal universities in Birnin Kebbi, Gashua and Gusau whose audit would cover only five years as they were created less than ten years ago.
