Proffer solutions to problems, SAN charges varsities | The Guardian Nigeria News

A former Speaker of the Oyo State Home of Meeting, Dr Akin Onigbinde (SAN), has tasked the nation’s tertiary establishments to proffer options to the myriads of issues confronting them, noting that ivory towers are full of individuals with extraordinary abilities and mind, therefore, ought to be capable of chart the best way ahead for the faculties.

Onigbinde, who acknowledged this on the seventieth birthday and retirement lecture of a former Vice-Chancellor of Ladoke Akintola College of Expertise (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Prof. Adeniyi Gbadegesin, urged universities to determine options to the challenges plaguing the system.

Gbadegesin, who’s a former Head of the Division of Geography and Dean of Social Sciences of the College of Ibadan (UI), is retiring from the premier establishment.

Onigbinde, who chaired the occasion, lauded Gbadegesin for his contributions to educational growth. He mentioned: “The college system attracts the perfect women and men of extraordinary abilities to steer the cost in each sphere. Universities present options and provides insights into the challenges confronting humanity and society on each frontier. It’s time for these establishments to step again and proffer options to their challenges.

“First, federal universities ought to interrogate the legal guidelines by which they have been established and ponder methods of adjusting, modifying or working round these provisions to make sure their survival and health for function, each now and within the years forward,” Onigbinde acknowledged.

He famous that if the construction and a few provisions of the regulation should be modified, repealed or new provisions enacted, the Nationwide Meeting, particularly members with the information, background and temperament applicable for such an enterprise, must be contacted.

He lamented that as a laudable, noble, and cerebral effort of the Educational Workers Union of Universities (ASUU) over time, it has not been pushed within the path of initiating and carrying out the anticipated change.

“Take into account the arduous work, dedication and mind that previous and present leaders of ASUU in addition to seasoned teachers, together with Dr. Mahmood Tukur, Festus Iyayi, Bade Onimode, Bala Usman, Segun Osoba, Assisi Asobie, Atahiru Jega, Dipo Fasina, Omotoye Olorode, and Magdalene Agbor, have put into the wrestle to see the college system work nicely. What do we’ve to point out for the multi-generational struggles?

“This may occasionally recommend that the strategies of ASUU could not obtain the legislative re-engineering wanted to impact a change in course. Apart from, as wholesome because the laws could also be to public establishments as mechanisms for high quality assurance, the inner contradictions are mind-boggling,” the senior advocate lamented.

Subsequently, he enjoined the establishments to rethink and reappraise what constitutes their core educating and analysis considerations.

In his lecture titled: ‘Instrumentality of geo-informatics as patent instruments for environmental governance,’ a former minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr Usani Uguru Usani, mentioned the atmosphere is geography, and geography is the rudder for every day livelihood practices.

Usani, who’s of the Division of City and Regional Planning, Nasarawa State College, Keffi, recommended the contributions of Gbadegesin to environmental analysis.