March 3, 2015
My People:
According to Honorable Federal Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, in testimony two days ago before the House of Representatives Committee on Tertiary Education, certain illegal acts of impunity* visited on the Vice-Chancellors of four New Federal Universities were justified because these universities - and presumably the eight other universities - were allegedly "illegal" creations of the immediate past Administration. Yet ironically the Honorable Minister inaugurated the new Governing Counil of these so-called illegal universities on the very same day as his testimony (see list of the sixty (60) members - five (5) per university - in Figure 1 below).
Parenthetically, no one of these new Council members was chosen from either Ekiti State or Akwa-Ibom State, while four each were chosen from Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano and Osun States, two each from fourteen states, and one each from sixteen states. (See Table 1 below for full statistics of the states of origin of the new Governing Councils.) A correction of that anomaly is certainly in order.
The Honorable Minister might also wish to know that:
(1) these Universities were created by Federal Executive Council and/or presidential declarations (or executive orders) at various times (starting from November 2010), the same way many other bodies have been created over the years in the country (or other countries for that matter), including certain new ministries in the present Administration.
(2) these Universities have been in annual National appropriations budgets since Budget Year 2012, including the one proposed (and being currently fine-tuned) by the Buhari Administration for 2016 (See Table 2 for information on Federal University Otuoke)
(3) Most importantly, the Laws of these new Universities were actually signed as Establishment Acts on March 26, 2015 by the Clerk of the National Assembly, and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (See Figures 2 and 3 for the relevant pages for Federal University Otuoke). From information available to this author, these laws are merely awaiting the formality of gazetting once the finances for paying for the gazettes are ironed out.
Consequently, the Honorable Minister must look for other honorable reasons for the actions of his Ministry on this particular matter.
Bolaji Aluko
Immediate Past VC
Federal University Otuoke
PS: *Specifically, the illegal acts of impunity are the peremptory reduction in the five-year terms of engagement of five Vice-Chancellors (of Federal Universities of Oye, Gusau, Gashua and Birnin-Kebbi, and of Open University), and the maintenance (or non-disavowal) of the odious notion of un-warranted "sacking" of thirteen VIce-Chancellors, eight of whose terms had actually expired.
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The Composition of the Governing Councils of Twelve New Universities:
TABLE 1: Statistics on New Governing Councils of Twelve New Federal Universities
| Number of New Universities of Interest | 12 | | |
| Number of Council Member Per University | 5 | | |
| Total Number of Council Members | | | 60 |
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| Group # / Names of States | Number of States In Group | No. of Council Members from each Named State | Total Number of Members In Group |
| Group 1: Akwa Ibom, Ekiti | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Group 2: Abia, Bayelsa, Cross-Rivers, Delta, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Kaduna, Kwara, Nasarawa, Ondo, Oyo, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara, | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| Group 3: Anambra, Benue, Borno, Edo, Imo, Jigawa, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Lagos, Niger, Ogun, Plateau, Rivers, | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Group 4: Adamawa, Bauchi, Kano, Osun, | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| Total All States | 36 | | 60 |
TABLE 2:
| | FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS 2012-2016 |
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| | | | | | | | | | | FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OTUOKE | | | | | FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS 2012-2016 | | | | | | | | | | | S/N | Budget Category | 2012 (Appropriation) | 2013 (Appropriation) | 2014 (Appropriation) | 2015 (Appropriation) | 2016 (Proposed) | | 1 | Consolidated Salary | 575,648,807 | 792,708,815 | 1,552,829,374 | 1,901,542,084 | 1,777,941,848 | | 2 | Non-Regular Allowances | 46,717,654 | 23,323,238 | 28,796,387 | 15,297,568 | 14,303,226 | | 3 | NHIS | 28,806,514 | 39,635,441 | 77,641,469 | 95,077,105 | 88,897,093 | | 4 | Constributory Pension | 43,209,770 | 59,453,161 | 116,462,203 | 142,615,656 | 133,345,639 | | 5 | Personnel Cost (1+2+3+4) | 694,382,745 | 915,120,655 | 1,775,729,433 | 2,154,532,413 | 2,014,487,806 | | | | | | | | | | 6 | Overhead | 97,222,222 | 93,126,805 | 112,919,851 | 66,015,453 | 91,908,599 | | | | | | | | | | 7 | Total Recurrent (5+6) | 791,604,967 | 1,008,247,460 | 1,888,649,284 | 2,220,547,866 | 2,106,396,405 | | | | | | | | | | 8 | Capital | 277,777,778 | 333,077,777 | 96,132,462 | 53,693,149 | 53,693,149 | | | | | | | | | | 9 | Total Allocation (7+8) | 1,069,382,745 | 1,341,325,237 | 1,984,781,746 | 2,274,241,015 | 2,160,089,554 | |
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FIGURE 1: Full List of Governing Council Members of Twelve New Universities (as published in ThisDay Page 26, February 26, 2016)
FIGURE 2: Pages 1 and 2 of Establishment Act 2015 of Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State
FIGURE 3: Signature Page (Signed by Clerk of the National Assembly, and President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on March 26, 2015)
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