Nigeria’s House of Representatives has urged the Executive arm of government to immediately lift the ban on employment in Federal Universities across the country.
The House also mandated its Committee on Tertiary Education and Services to ascertain the number of internal vacancies existing in all the Universities with a view to monitoring their replacements in order to curb inefficiency and waste in the system.
These were contained in a motion adopted at the plenary calling for an immediate lifting of the ban on recruitments in Universities.
Presenting the motion, Mrs Taiwo Oluga, a member from Osun State, South-West Nigeria said recent oversight of Federal Universities in Nigeria revealed that the institutions have an avalanche of internal vacancies for both academic and non–academic positions that is hampering smooth academic programmes in the Universities.
“Notes that a recent oversight of Federal Universities in Nigeria revealed that the institutions have an avalanche of internal vacancies for both academic and non–academic positions, but because of the ban on recruitment, the positions cannot be filled, thus hampering smooth academic programmes in the Universities;
“Cognizant that the amount appropriated in the 2020 national budget for personnel expenditure in the Universities can accommodate the internal vacancies, hence the Universities should be allowed to fill the vacancies, especially where the amounts appropriated for capital expenditure can offset the attendant personnel costs,” the lawmaker added.
Mrs Oluga argued that the vacancies created should be filled through replacement and not an outright fresh employment, adding that doing so will enhance teaching and learning and reduce the burden on those left in the institutions.
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