[FILE] Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu AdamuMartins Oloja’s typically detailed and characteristically incisive piece in his Inside Stuff column in The Guardian on Sunday of June 27, 2021, practically took out from my mouth, an issue, which has agitated my mind in recent weeks and months. Titled, “Nigeria Needs Better, Not More Universities,” Oloja interrogates the exponential expansion of universities, public and private, in the country and wonders why government is licensing more and more private universities and building new ones itself. He contended that existing institutions could be improved upon via adequate funding and provision of infrastructure. x
Indeed, on a social media platform to which Oloja and I belong, a very eminent and distinguished administrator and statesman, commented on the said piece by remarking that “there are 1800 universities in The Philippines, for a population of 105 million people.” He explained furthe
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Published 15 May 2021
Olusola Fabiyi, Oyetunji Abioye and Jesusegun Alagbe
Published 15 May 2021
Troops can’t be schooling when we’re in a war situation –Brigadier generals
Following intensified insurgency attacks across the country, particularly in the North, the Nigerian Army has recalled a large number of its personnel studying in civil institutions (universities and polytechnics) across the country, according to a leaked memo by the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Department of Army Training, Abuja.
In the memo dated May 11, the Nigerian Army also suspended the sponsorship of personnel in civil institutions with the exemption of students in the final year.
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With the intensity of the daring attacks on citizenry, particularly in Northern Nigeria by terrorists group, Boko Haram, the Nigerian Army has no been forced to recall their personnel who are on study leave in various higher institutions of learning across the country.
According to a memo dated May 11 and seen by Punch, the Nigerian Army Headquarters, Department of Army Training, Abuja, also suspended the sponsorship of personnel in civil institutions with the exemption of students in their final year.
The memo signed by Brigadier General I. A Ajose on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, and titled, ‘Exemption of Ex Boys (NMS) from Personnel Affected by Directive on Suspension of NA Sponsorship to Civil Institutions.
Of course, available data from reported cases and accounts by victims of the current madness are harrowing, disturbing and disheartening. In this month of April 2021, over 200 Nigerians were killed by so-called bandits, terrorists and separatists. In Borno State, there is no accurate data on the number of persons killed in multiple attacks in Damasak, Kwapre village, Kumuya military base, Mainok military super-camp, and Geidam town in Yobe State, which has been annexed by terrorists who boast about their victory over the Nigeria Army. In the South-East, more than 43 policemen have been killed by persons suspected to be members of the proscribed IPOB group. They attack security formations, kill operatives and cart away arms. A highly condemnable development that should be taken very seriously by the federal and state governments.
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