Adar (APC-Sokoto), the Chairman House Committee on Petroleum Resources Upstream, made the assertion, while addressing newsmen at his resident on Monday in Sokoto. According to the lawmaker, encouraging additional Federal universities by elites, especially ASUU is what is downgrading the good quality of the country s education. ASUU was always taking strike actions for over 40 years with no achievement but are still striking and they are the ones encouraging the creation of more new universities. This doesn’t make sense at all. They should be fighting for scraping of some of the universities. For me, 36 Federal universities are enough in Nigeria, but today we have over 60 universities; where are we heading to, he said.
The House of Representatives has begun consultations with the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) on ways to strengthen the existing law setting up the body, describing the organisation as exemplary.
Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on Petroleum Resources Upstream, Preye Oseke, who spoke when he led the members of the committee on monitoring and oversight visit to the NEITI secretariat in Abuja, pledged to continue to partner NEITI in ensuring that all government public finances are managed transparently.
Members of the committee also requested NEITI to forward its law for amendment with a view to widening the scope of its operations and powers.
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