The Federal Government has offered assurances that it would soon reconstitute the governing councils of universities.
This assurance was provided by the acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Chris Maiyaki who said the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, had put in place a panel to work on the list.
The NUC Executive Secretary who spoke at a media parley with education reporters in Abuja said the councils would be inaugurated once the list was completed.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities had yesterday given the government a two-week ultimatum to reconstitute the governing councils of federal universities or face an industrial showdown.
Speaking on the number of universities in the country, the NUC boss said the commission was committed to expanding access to higher education.
“And for this, the current 272 universities in the NUS are not sufficient to accommodate the ever-growing demand for university education by Nigerian youths. “Each year, Nigerian universities receive close to two million applications, only a small fraction of them are admitted. That is why there is a need for Nigeria to continue to increase access by establishing more universities to meet the demand for quality education in the country,” Maiyaki said
