Universities lack authority to hire staff – Vice-chancellor

The vice-chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University, Professor Adebayo Simeon Bamire, has disclosed that public universities in Nigeria cannot retain the services of their best students after graduation, writes Shina Abubakar for Vanguard.

He attributed the inability to employ the best-graduating students in public institutions to the lack of autonomy in employing lecturers by each university.

Speaking ahead of the university’s 47th convocation at the Senate building on Monday, Bamire said the school would have loved to retain its students that graduated with first-class degrees but lacked the power to do so. “Before you can recruit anyone into any department in this university now, your papers have to go through seven agencies of government. It is not like you just pick anybody on the street and just say this is what you want and bring them in. You can’t because it has implications on the budget that is done for your school,” he said.
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