Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i, yesterday described, the University of Abuja as “a shame’ to the nation, and blamed the university’s governing council for the crisis.
She said the report of “a high-powered 40-man visitation panel” that conducted an investigation into the activities of the school exposed rot that “is deeper than what we are seeing now.”
She added that the report had been concluded and a White Paper drawn and submitted to President Goodluck Jonathan for approval.
“University of Abuja is supposed to be a pride to all of us, but, unfortunately, it is a shame! The university, since inception, there has been so much problem,” she said.
“There are two scenarios to the problem we are facing in the University of Abuja. One is the issue of programmes operated illegally for many years in the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture and that of Engineering.”
In his presentation, Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Julius Okogie, represented by the deputy executive secretary, Mr Akinbode Agbaoye, said the institution was warned several times by the commission not to set up the faculties, having failed to meet the requirements, but it refused to heed them.
Meanwhile, the vice chancellor of the school, Prof James Adelabu, absolved himself and his administration from the events that preceded the crisis, saying that he put an end to admission of new students on advice of the NUC in 2009.
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