NUC: Many Nigerian university Lecturers Not Qualified

There have been allegations that
Nigerian universities churn out half-
baked graduates yearly and the
National Universities Commission
(NUC) may have just cracked the
nut.
The regulatory body has revealed that
about 40 percent of lecturers in the
country’s universities do not have the
requisite qualification.
NUC said many lecturers are not
qualified
According to the body, the requisite
qualification is a PhD, but just about
60 percent of lecturers have it.
The Nigerian Tribune reports that
while lamenting this situation, the
NUC further expressed displeasure at
the inability of the universities to
generate serious endowment fund and
investments capable of financing their
recurrent expenditure needs.
The report said the commission,
through its executive secretary,
Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed,
admonished vice chancellors to begin
to see fundraising and mobilisation as
an integral part of their jobs in
response to the realities of today.
Rasheed reportedly spoke as a guest
lecturer at the University of Benin
Academic Colloquium, held in honour
of 17 alumni of the institution
appointed by the federal and state
governments between 2015 and 2016.
The NUC boss, who was represented by
the director of research in the
commission, Dr leiman Ramah, said:

“The critical thinking skills which
universities are expected to instigate
in their students constitute a critical
component of the arsenal required if
the Nigerian university system is to
live up to expectations in leading the
way in our quest for innovation and
positive change.

“Each academic programme in a
university must pay attention to and
incorporate within its curriculum the
commercial and industrial needs and
focus of its discipline.”

Speaking earlier, the vice chancellor
of UNIBEN, Professor Faraday
Orumwense, reportedly said the
university is a resource-based
institution.

He said about 17 members of staff
have been appointed into high level
positions like minister, vice
chancellors, registrar, bursar, provost
and rector, between 2015 and 2016.