The House of Representatives Committee on University Education has invited the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof.
Abdullahi Yusuf Ribadu, and heads of other relevant government bodies in the education sector over the recent dissolution of some university councils and the dismissal of vice-chancellors. Chairman of the House Committee on University Education, Hon. Abubakar Hassan Fulata, disclosed this following a committee meeting regarding a petition against the suspended Vice-Chancellor of Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education, Owerri, Prof. Stella Lemchi, and Imo State University.
Lemchi, in her defence, stated that all serving provosts of the five other federal colleges of education upgraded to universities alongside AIFUE were appointed as acting vice-chancellors by their governing councils or the Federal Ministry of Education. She pointed out that some of these provosts held only PhDs, whereas she was a professor, making claims about her ineligibility baseless. She further noted that she obtained her PhD in 2005, at a time when one of the petitioners, Prof.
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