For Vice Chancellors of public universities in Nigeria, one of the major hurdles they grapple with is having to shuttle between their institutions and the nation’s capital on a weekly or biweekly basis to answer questions from politicians in the National Assembly.
This is even as the National Assembly has halted the N683 billion Tertiary Education Trust Fund’s (TETFund’s) intervention projects in 2024, The Guardian can authoritatively report.
It was gathered that frequent invitations and oversight visits by committees of both legislative chambers to heads of institutions is causing disquiet, outrage in the Ivory Towers, as this is distracting Vice Chancellors of universities from performing their duties.
The latest uproar, it was gathered, followed an invitation from the Committee on TETFund and other Services in the House of Representatives to the Secretary General, Committee on Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU), Prof Yakubu Ochefu,…
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