Professor Olu Obafemi’s bright picture of what goes against the grain of funding public university education in Nigeria is as bright as ever.
What the future funding policy of government for public institutions should and must bet emerged from an act of deliberate government policy that provides a genuine space for collective bargaining engagements, the kind that came out of the negotiations and renegotiations between the federal government and the university-based unions—the last of which were the Munzali Jibril ’s and Nimi Briggs ’ led Renegotiation Teams.
There is really no room and time to negotiate the immediate implementation of that Renegotiated rate. Tomorrow may be too late, given the galloping rate at which the Naira collapses when taken side by side along the Dollar, Euro or even Chinese Yuan/Renminbi and the Russian Rouble. A few days ago, February 22, 2024, the Eightieth Birthday of Professor Briggs was celebrated. Nothing can better immortalise his name than implementing that Agreement because of his total commitment to the revitalisation of the University system. During his burial last year, we the remaining members of his Committee, restated his commitment, vision and drive toward the transformation of the educational system in general and the universities in particular.
Nimi Briggs and the rest of us believed there was no alternative to accepting the well-wrought document, if the university system will be rescued from its doldrums, decadence and declining standards. You refused to be daunted or ruffled when the patently distracting legal process was entered into by an agent of government and a court injunction was obtained when the easiest option was to get the two parties to sign the Agreement.
The agitation for this has been on for decades. It is important to put a stamp on the ongoing National Research Fund by TETFund’s management and its Board of Trustees. From this effort, Government announced the approval of the sum of N5.1 billion for 185 research proposals for this year. Withdrawal from ECOWAS takes effect one year after notification of withdrawal to the secretariat, during which period the withdrawing member
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