Reps urge universities to avoid undue delay, frustration of students’ research work

The House of Representatives Committee connected University Education has warned the absorption of Nigerian universities against frustrating some undergraduate and postgraduate students implicit Projects, Thesis, Dissertations and different research-related issues.

Chairman, House Committee connected University Education, Abubakar Hassan Fulata gave the informing pursuing an allegation that a lecturer astatine Ahmadu Bello University Zaria died of slump owed to his inability to implicit PhD programme aft 13 years.

The committee which has visited respective national universities successful the past 3 months was successful ABU Zaria this week.

Muazu Muhammed Ahmad, a Lecturer astatine the English Language Department astatine the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, died a fewer months agone owed to alleged slump suffered astatine the hands of his PhD supervisor. According to the allegation, helium was admitted for PhD successful 2011 and 13 years later, helium was incapable to implicit the study.

Fulata told Prof. Kabiru Bala, Vice Chancellor, ABU Zaria that the absorption of the schoolhouse should guarantee that supervisors assigned to supervise some undergraduate and postgraduate students’ probe enactment bash not harass, intimidate and frustrate them.

He besides appealed to the absorption of different universities successful the state to guarantee that students postgraduate astatine the due time.

Fulata besides noted that respective national universities his committee visited bash not comply with national quality principles with respect to recruitment.

He urged the Federal University of Health Sciences Azare, Bauchi State, Federal University Dutsin-ma, Katsina State and different caller universities to guarantee they comply with national quality principles successful recruitment.

Federal University of Health Sciences Azare and Federal University Dutsin-ma were among the universities the committee visited this week.