FG Plans Temporary Appointments For Senior Lecturers.

Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education has set a limit on temporary appointments in Federal Government-owned universities, polytechnics and colleges of education to academics in professorial and senior lecturer cadre.

In a letter to the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Didi Watson-Jack, to the National Universities Commission, National Board for Technical Education and National Commission for Colleges of Education said, the issue of employment for the replacement of retired and dead academics and non-academic staff members of federal tertiary institutions have been a matter of debate following what stakeholders have described as challenges posed by the IPPIS system.

The union at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State said, over 350 academic vacancies were available at the institution, while 27 lecturers had left two faculties at the University of Lagos, as 100 workers at the University of Uyo travelled out of the country.

 The statement also said, the Governing Councils shall ensure full compliance with the laws and conditions of service of the institutions and other applicable laws and circulars for effective and efficient governance, and no tertiary institution shall employ any category of staff not provided for in its budget for the particular year;