Buhari Comes Hard On Specilised Universities Offering Courses Outside Their Mandates; Universities Of Agriculture & Technologies Among Others

The Federal Government has warned specialised universities in the country which have been running programmes that were “antithetical to their mandates” to stop such with immediate effect.



In a statement issued by the spokesperson of JAMB, in Abuja on Sunday, FG said specialised Universities are those set up to pursue specific courses and programmes to generate manpower in particular sectors of the economy.

In his words:

 “Some of these specialised institutions include Universities such as Universities of Agriculture, Universities of Technologies, Universities of Medicine, amongst others. 

 “The Federal government has observed that these institutions have derailed from their statutory responsibilities, thereby running programmes that are antithetical to their mandates. 
The government notes the unfortunate situation were Universities of Agriculture offer programmes in Law, Management courses such as Accounting, Banking and Finance, Business Administration, among others. 

 “As if that was not enough, some institutions change the nomenclature of some of the courses to read for instance Banking Engineering, Accounting Technology, among other names. This is an aberration and should be stopped with immediate effect.”

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