USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: [africanworldforum] Re: [NIgerianWorldForum] On the Matter of the Constitution of the New Governing Councils of Twelve New Universities - and the (Il)Legality of the Universities

Ewaen Igodomigodo:

Hen?  Haba!

It is a minor miracle that you commented below on an issue that does not have "Oba of Benin" or "Benin Kingdom" in it, when you quickly put your Godo-godo spear in defence of the Okpolokpolo in hand?  I never knew that there would be that day!

Congratulations!

Bolaji Aluko

Having a belly laugh

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 11:04 PM, ewaen edoghimioya <ewaenfedo@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Mobolaji,

                Why are you bellyaching now over lopsided appointments of members of governing councils, when in August you chastised those who criticized Buhari's pattern of lopsided appointments thus .

"Now emotions are going haywire over these appointments, but again, I urge people to "calm down."   I believe there is a pattern to PMB's seeming "madness", some of it borne by his laser-focused INTENT to be his own person (his own interpretation of belong to everybody and to nobody),  or to choose familiar people either with merit and impeccable character and/or not enough information by us highly captious Southern persons to throw darts at. (Imagine the calumny against Fayemi, Amaechi and Fashola - or even yours truly - when it was being rumored that they were being considered for high position in the PMB administration.)

When these other appointments start rolling in, the present criticizers will be too happy to accept, rather than throw unwarranted darts at them....you watch…."

Now the other appointments are rolling in not in the manner that you had expected or been deceived to believe. Instead you were sacked as the Minister have stated and left empty handed, you are starting to bellyache. Sai Baba all the way. I dey laugh.

Ewaen

On Thursday, 3 March 2016, 5:42, "Mobolaji Aluko alukome@gmail.com [NIgerianWorldForum]" <NIgerianWorldForum@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

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
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

		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

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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