Students of Adamawa State University (ADSU), Mubi, have called for more
funding and recruitment of additional lecturers for the state owned institution
to recover from its numerous challenges.
Representatives of the university’s Students’ Union Government (SUG) made
the call Wednesday in Mubi while briefing newsmen on their maiden meeting
with members of the newly appointed Governing Council of the institution.
“It was a fruitful discussion and we told them the challenges facing students;
we spoke on the need for more funding of the university by this new
administration of Gov. Ahmadu Fintiri who has shown interest in restoring
the glory of this institution, which is the first state owned University in North
East.
“We spoke on the need to increase the number of lecturers and suggested
retaining of best graduating students from all departments as one way to
address that,” said Tizhe Geoffrey, the Secretary General of the SUG.
Also speaking on the meeting between the council and the Academic Staff
Uniion of Universities (ASUU), the branch chairman of ASUU, Mr Abubakar
Aliyu, said the Academic staff also presented to the council their
problems, challenges and way forward.
“You know the University has been operating for years without stable councils,
so this new council is coming to meet a lot of challenges.
“We drew their attention to the challenges they are likely to face and the
expediency to address these challenges for the University to move forward.
“We want the council to expedite the constitution of a management so that we
can have a substantive Vice Chancellor,” Aliyu said.
He also spoke on the need to beef up security in the campus and the town,
pointing out that Mubi was one of the areas that suffered adversely from boko-
haram insurgency.
The ASUU chairman however lauded the stability in the University in spite of
the numerous challenges.
“We have stability and have been running our calendar and graduating
students,” Aliyu said.
