Committee for public universities has
constituted monitoring teams to oversee the
execution of projects on the campuses of the
59 federal and state universities.
They are to benefit from the Federal
Government's N100 billion intervention fund.
The constitution of the monitoring teams was
the high point of the meeting which held at the
Benue Governor's Lodge, Asokoro, Abuja.
The meeting, chaired by Benue State Governor
Gabriel Suswam was attended by Minister of
State for Education, Nyesom Wike;
representatives of the Senate and House of
Representatives Committee on Education
Senator Atiku Bagudu and Dr Macjohn
Nwaobiala, Permanent Secretary, Federal
Ministry of Education, Executive Secretary,
National Universities Commission (NUC), and
leaders of industrial unions in the university
system (NASU, SSANU and NAATS) with the
Acting Executive Secretary of TETFund as
Secretary.
Members of the committee include the
Minister of Education, Minister of
Labour,Senator Atiku Abubakar Bagudu, Hon
Jerry Alagbaoso, Permanent Secretary Federal
Ministry of Education, Executive Secretary
NUC, Chairman Board of TeTFund, Presidents
of ASUU, NASU, SSANU and NAATS while
Mr.Ifiok Ukim,Head of Legal Services at
TeTFund will serve as Secretary.
The Committee constituted six monitoring
teams for the six geo- political zones with
responsibility to monitor project
implementation in all the universities within
the zones.
The North- Central team which has Hajia
Hindat Abdullahi as chairperson will monitor
the projects in the zone. Mr Oluwole Oluleye
will chair the monitoring committee for
northeast zone. The Northwest has Mallam
Aliyu Na'Iya, Acting Executive Secretary of
TeTFund as Chairman with Prof. Kimse Okoko,
Chairman, Committee of Pro- Chancellors as
Chairman of Southeast Monitoring Sub-
Committee. The Southsouth Team will be led by
Mrs Sarah Alade (Deputy Governor, Economic
Policy), representative of CBN while the
representative of the NNPC, Dr Dan Efebo will
chair the Monitoring Team for the Southwest
geo- political zone.
Suswam urged the teams to take the
assignment seriously. He described the
exercise as a call to national service. The
Benue governor appealed to the governing
councils of the 59 benefitting universities in
the first phase of the intervention programme
to expedite action on their procurement
processes so that the actual work on the
projects will begin in earnest.
The Federal Government had last month
disbursed N100billion to the public
universities in a bold move to redress the
serious infrastructural deficit in the university
system.
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