FEC Removes Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges Of Education from IPPIS 

Michael Luke Chiemeli says:

Where were all these people, now in the FEC ,when that IPPIS AUTOCRACY was being enforced on us all? What did they EACH say?

We should ALSO wait for their verdict on the SINGLE TREASURY ACCOUNTS that ruined many internationally funded research in the Nigerian tertiary institutions while financial corruption was busy rocking that past federal government while all the members of the present one said absolutely nothing, wherever they were then! MC.

Adekunle Daoud Balogun says:

If lecturers are let loose again to operate In their universities and be paid by the authorities, who has the authorities to examine and assess their performancebecause one cannotbe a judge in his court, this may force them to maintain consistency at work in their institutions. There is the need to subject them to scrutiny by the federal government. There is pressing need to establish series of strong committee of some retired academics among our emeritus professors and vice chancellors and rectors of higher institution along various disciplines who would combine their wealth of knowledge to assess every federal government institution’s research works throughout the year, based on the relevance, meaningful contribution of their research works to our nation’s policy agenda and development. The relevance of their published research with foreign collaborators in developing trends in technology, engineering scientific discovery from where applied inventions could be initiated, expanded, and promoted for domestic use and fot exportation. This will help the nation to add to global knowledge and clear sources of foreign earning for our country. Let each lecturer be evaluated by the students to which they impact knowledge so that we keep them on their toes to stay around and do good job once va evaluation, verification and recommendation or appraisal become annual exercise for update of their knowledge and contribution in academics and largely in the country. Many discoveries by our youth were not developed to creative innovation to benefit the university and the nation. Most scientific discovaries made by the youth in the country went down the drain while some were sponsored by a few philantropists and finally sold to the investors in the Europe for further development because our Professors are not encouraged by the government through financing, assessment, scrutiny and celebration of merit-based outcome of research. TET-FUND scheme failed to maximally achieve its objectives because of lopsided and prefential treatment. If we want knowledgeable Nigerians be made to believe that their efforts would be acknowledged and compensated, let the Federal government make critical review of its research and development scheme policy on a level Plain ground, that will stop our potential researchers from wasting their active part of their live in foreign institutions just because of work standard, good salary, stable infrastructure ture and security. Consistent and good result-oriented research can never be achieve without those aforementioned factors. Government must stand by the higher institutions to develop their own infrastructure in the campus. When the result is reliable they can replicate it in the cities where theose institutions are located and by and large across the nation. Some universities in the Eastern Nigeria are generating independent power for campus use, what prevent the government from demanding from and supporting others to follow the suits. The Presidential Villa must be operating on independent power supply that must be made by out universities, likewise the National Assembly, Judiciary complex and the Federal Secretariat if the government needs to get the best end products of its supports for the Nigerian Higher Institutions.