The Federal Government is working to reconstitute the governing councils of its universities across the country, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Chris Maiyaki, has said.
He said the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, had constituted a panel to work on the list of the people who would be on the councils.
The NUC executive secretary said the councils would be inaugurated once the list was completed.
Maiyaki, who addressed education reporters on Wednesday in Abuja, was responding to the two-week ultimatum issued by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for the government to reconstitute the governing councils of public universities.
“To reconstitute the councils of 61 universities is not a small feat. Government is working to ensure that people that are qualified and with the right pedigree are put in those councils,” he said.
The executive secretary agreed that the absence of the governing councils was slowing down the administration of the universities.
He urged the leadership of ASUU to be patient with the government during the period.
The NUC had, on June 22, last year, announced the dissolution of the governing councils of all federal universities and the boards of other agencies and corporations across the country.
The NUC directive was based on a similar one issued three days earlier by President Bola Tinubu for the dissolution of the boards of all government corporations, agencies and companies.
