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Thu Feb 11 2021
When Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu reported for work as Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in February, 2016, he came cracking several jokes. One of them was that he intended to take the university “from noun to verb”.
Five years down the lane, that pun has assumed a palpable reality. The university, founded by the Shagari administration in 1983, suspended a year later by the military regime of General Buhari and re-invented by the Obasanjo administration in 2002, was impacted in many ways by Adamu.
Appointed from his base at Bayero University, Kano, he retired as NOUN VC on February 10, 2021 after completing his statutory five-year single term.
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By Segun Awofadeji
A Coalition under the auspices of North-east APC Youth Support Group have commended President Buhari for appointing Minister Education, Adamu Adamu and the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETfund) Professor Suleiman Bogoro, saying that their stewardship has impacted the educational sector positively.
Addressing Journalists in Bauchi, the National Coordinator of the group Comrade Aliyu Mohammed Bauchi and the Secretary, Comrade Usman Musa Biu said the administration has performed well in the sector in the past years.
The APC commended the president for the allocation of funds to the educational sector in the annual budgets even as they lauded the TETfund executive secretary for the proper utilisation of the funds.
RINGTRUE BY YEMI ADEBOWALE
Some of President Muhammadu Buhari’s men have been going about mocking Transparency International’s 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI). It is shocking to see these presidential aides attacking TI and blaming hapless Nigerians for our country’s poor rating. The President has also maintained a treacherous silence on this report which placed Nigeria as the second most corrupt country in West Africa, with Guinea Bissau in the first position. According to TI, CPI worsened under the Buhari government. The 2020 Index gave Nigeria 25 from 100 obtainable points, thus ranking this country 149 out of the 180 assessed.
Transparency drew its conclusion from 13 data sources that captured the assessment of experts and business executives on a number of corrupt behaviours in Nigeria’s public sector including bribery, diversion of public funds, use of public office for private gain and nepotism in the civil service.
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The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has condemned the failure by the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria and the Tertiary Education Trust Fund to present their audited accounts for five years.
The committee also criticised the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund for not paying up their 30 per cent and 20 per cent equity capital as shareholders of the bank, respectively, as stipulated by the FMB Establishment Act.
The committee spoke in Abuja on Thursday at an investigative hearing on audit queries issued by the Office of the Auditor Genaral of Federation against ministries, departments and agencies of the Federal Government.