NUC lambasts varsities over insufficient research works

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has lambasted univer­sities in the country for not doing enough to assist govern­ment with research works to tackle the present economic challenges.

NUC’s Director of Research and Innovation, Dr Sulei­man Ramon Yusuf, made this known recently during a two - day retreat organised by the Department of Consultancy Services of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU), Lapai, Niger State.

Yusuf who spoke on the top­ic, “ Attaining Excellence and Efficiency in a University - the Regulatory Agency Perspec­tive”, said that universities in developing countries, though constrained by poor resources, have to live up to peoples’ ex­pectations.

He urged universities to be strategic by reconsidering their mission, vision, functions and structures as veritable engine for economic development and social regeneration.

The Vice Chancellor of IBBU, Professor Muhammad Nasir Maiturare in his remarks, described as unfortunate the situation whereby universities only focus on their local envi­ronment instead of having a global vision.

A presentation of structural design by the Ahmadu Bello University Consultancy Ni­geria Limited, Zaria, for the proposed IBBU Lapai Medical College was displayed at the two-day retreat.

The preliminary presenta­tion was to enhance the work of the committee earlier set up by the Niger State government so that all stakeholders can do proper assessment of the de­sign and come up with useful suggestions that would actual­ise the dream of a medical col­lege in Niger state.