Nyesom Wike, Dave Umahi, Festus Keyamo and other ministers appointed by President Bola Tinubu will be subjected to quarterly performance review.
According to education minister, Professor Tahir Mamman, the quarterly performance review will help ministers stay on track with the renewed hope agenda of the Tinubu administration.
Prof Mamman disclosed during a recent meeting with a delegation of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities.
The VCs’ committee met the minister of education to present to him a report of challenges being faced by universities in the country.
A statement on Wednesday by the committee’s secretary, Prof. Yakubu Ochefu, said the delegation was led by the Chairman of the VCs’ committee, Prof. Lilian Salami, who is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin.
The statement quoted the minister of education as telling the VCs that the President, who is the Visitor to all federal universities, was very serious about turning the nation around.
“He noted that his [Tinubu’s] approach to governance was very business-like and that all his ministers would be subjected to quarterly performance reviews,” the statement said.
Earlier, the Salami-led delegation tabled before the minister “several critical challenges faced by public and private universities in the country.”
The meeting, held at the Federal Ministry of Education Secretariat in Abuja, was attended by the Minister of State for Education, Dr Yusuf Sununu; and the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, David Adejo.
The Chairman of the VCs’ committee, Salami, also congratulated Mamman on his appointment “as the first serving vice-chancellor to become the Minister of Education.”
Salami highlighted some key areas of challenges being faced by universities, including funding, recruitment of staff, universities’ autonomy, aspects of university laws that conflict with other laws, and unending industrial disputes with university-based unions.
The statement also noted that “Professor Salami presented the committee’s study report on ‘Challenges, Opportunities and Sustainable Models for Nigerian Federal Universities’ as their input to finding lasting solutions to the challenges facing public and private universities.”
