By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA
The Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has read the riot act to vice-chancellors of Nigeria’s public universities, warning them to stop relying almost exclusively on government allocations. He urged them to aggressively pursue alternative sources of funding.
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Alausa, who expressed concern over the poor resource mobilisation capacity of Nigerian universities, revealed that only four of the 68 federal universities were currently making meaningful use of alternative funding opportunities such as research grants, endowments, alumni donations, philanthropy and industry partnerships.
He described the development as unacceptable, charging university leaders to make resource mobilisation a central responsibility of their administrations.
