National Assembly To Create 80 Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges Of Education
Improve what we have first, ASUU says The National Assembly is working to create 80 new federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education despite poor funding for the existing tertiary institutions. If these new institutions are created, it will bring the total number of federal educational institutions to 164. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike in the last three weeks over inadequate funding of research and infrastructure in the federal universities. Daily Trust findings revealed that there are presently 80 bills at various legislative processes pending before the Senate and the House of Representatives for the establishment of tertiary institutions across the country. In the 2018 budget, the 84 existing federal government tertiary institutions across the country were allocated N367 billion out of the over N600 billion approved for the education sector. The 80 proposed federal institutions, spread across the 36 states of the federation ...