The moratorium on new universities, others

The recent Senate decision to halt the processing of bills seeking the establishment of new universities and other tertiary institutions, in line with the Federal Government’s six-year moratorium on establishing new institutions, is quite in order. It must be obeyed by the lawmakers and other concerned stakeholders in the education sector.
The directive will stem the brazen rush by lawmakers to process bills to establish federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in their constituencies without considering the need and viability of such tertiary institutions when the existing ones are starved of funds, staff, infrastructure and equipment. The undue politicisation of u...