Joint NASS committee on Tertiary Education decries poor performance of 2025 varsities budgets
Joint NASS committee on Tertiary Education decries poor performance of 2025 varsities budgets
The Joint National Assembly Committee on Tertiary Education has expressed decried the poor implementation of 2025 Capital Budget component across universities in the country.
The committee which expressed its displeasure at the 2026 budget defence session organsied for National Universities Commission (NUC) and Federal Universities in Abuja, warned that the such poor performance should not be allowed to occur in the new fiscal year.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFund Sen. Muntari Dandutse ( ) he frowned at the reason for the poor performance which was blamed on “administrative director.”
The senator said that administrative directive is not superior to an Act of the Parliament, saying that University Councils must be allowed to carry out their roles in line with the Act.
Dandutse said that the committees will soon embark on sensitisation in the six geo-political zones of the country on managerial and administrative issues bothering tertiary education in the country.
Also speaking, the Chairman of the House Committee on University Education, Rep. Abubakar Fulata (APC-Jigawa) said that universities and other tertiary institutions of learning have been removed from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS)
He said that as a result of the removal which was due to the peculiarities of the university system, it was improper to subject universities to the rigorous employment process of meeting several Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) before recruitment.
The lawmaker said that the responsibility to ensure adequate staffing now falls under the jurisdiction of the university council.
He, however, warned management of the universities against carrying out employment without adhering to the principles of federal character.
Fulata also said that there was need to revisit the issue of electricity challenges faced by the schools as they were not commercial ventures or profit oriented institutions.
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He advised the universities to seek alternative means of funding to complement the government efforts.
In his remarks, the Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Abdullahi Ribadu said that while the number of universities in the country had risen up 300, the staff strength of the regulatory body is decreasing.
According to, since 2014, the commission has not carried out recruitment despite the exit of many workers.
He said there was waiver recently to employ about 200 workers but the process was put on hold after over 26000 applied for the job.
Similarly, Chairman, Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Federal Universities, Prof. Ishaya Tanko said that lack of adequate funding was affecting universities in the country in different ways.
Tanko who is the Vice Chancellor of University of Jos, said that the monthly overheard cost for the school is N20 million while electricity bill alone accounts for about N80 million.
