PRESIDENT APPROVES MONEY FOR NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

There have been reports that President Jonathan has approved a sum of 4oo billion naira to be spent on infrastructural development of Nigerian Universities in order to transform them to international standard within the next four years. The document to this effect is expected to be made available today at the meeting of the Presidential committee on Implementation of the NEEDS assessment in the universities with the leaders of the four university based unions - the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT),the Non- Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASAU) and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke said this at a meeting held with his union members at the University of Abuja over the weekend. He also said that the sum approved by the President is different from the 100 billion naira which the Governor Suswam led committee had raised from donor agencies and companies to tackle the problems of Nigerian Universities this year. Hopefully,this would put an end to the strike...