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Why Uni-Abuja needs more than firing VC…

While it is expedient to hail the action of the Visitor to the University of Abuja who sacked its controversial Vice Chancellor and dissolved the university’s Council the other day, it is also important to draw the attention of the Visitor, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the mess that the unique University (of Abuja) has become. Don’t get it twisted, the intervention on Thursday 6th February has saved the 37-year old university from a crisis that had threatened its foundation.

The nation and indeed the federal government should be grateful to the audacity of the G-44 led by Professor Olanrewaju Aladeitan of Law Faculty. But here is an example of the peculiar mess that the G-44 professors just drew our attention to:

Apart from the irregularity of the strange and kangarooic selection of the dismissed vice chancellor, Professor Aisha Maikudi, the foundation of the just concluded admission of fresh…
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