The Honourable Minister of Information, Mr Labaran Maku has commended the current administration of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka led by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof Bartho Okolo, on the development of infrastructure and improving on the existing ones in the University.
The Minister, who was at the University, recently, as part of his good governance tour in Enugu state, was conducted round the Nsukka campus by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Prof Isaac Asuzu, who represented the Vice-Chancellor.
After viewing some of the on-going and completed projects, the Minister noted that a lot of development had taken place in the University since the last time he visited.
“Let me commend the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, I was here in 1988, I know this is a different place than what I saw. Then, most of the buildings were virtually collapsing; I saw paintings that had not been changed for ten to fifteen years.
“But today, I can see that almost every building on this campus has been touched; hostels, faculty buildings and new structures, are all looking different. That is the kind of thing we should appreciate”, he said.
Maku lamented that past military regimes in Nigeria brought about the collapse of the university system as they encouraged migration of Nigerian scholars to Western and Eastern countries in search of a greener pasture.
However, he noted that there was a gradual and steady recovery process pursued by the Federal Government, which if not interrupted, would restore the lost glory of the education sector.
On the problem of funding in universities, the Minister acknowledged that the universities needed more funds for optimal performance, but said that the National Economic Council (NEC) was working on a grand scheme to generate more funding for universities from both private and public sectors.
Further, Maku bemoaned the security challenge in the Northern part of Nigeria, he said if not for the security problem, the huge resources the Federal Government had spent trying to restore normalcy in the region, would have been alternatively applied to close the gaps in the education sector.
But the Minister expressed confidence in Nigerian Universities, stating that even at its present level; their products still hold their feet in global competitions.
He therefore urged Nigerians to recognise and encourage the process of change that had come to stay in the country.
Source: www.unn.edu.ng
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