Reopen Private Varsities – Committee Of Pro-Chancellors

By Chuks Ekpeneru

To save the economy, the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Private Universities (CPCPU) has made an appeal to the Federal Government to reopen the country’s 78 private universities shut due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

CPCPU said in a communiqué issued at the end of its Emergency Virtual meeting that private universities have put in place all the necessary requirements and protocols specified by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 to ensure a safe and secure campus for both students and staff hence readiness to reopen.

“We are prepared to open in phases, first with the graduating students, and probably with the first-year students”, the Communiqué read.

The communiqué was signed by former Minister of Education and Pro-Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD) Professor Tunde Adeniran and made available to Tribune Online in Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti capital on Tuesday by ABUAD’s Head of corporate affairs, Mr Tunde Olofintila.

According to him: “It is globally acknowledged that prompt solutions to economic, medical and scientific problems are best secured through the active participation of universities as knowledge workers through the performance of their teaching and research functions.

The communique requested the Central Bank of Nigeria, TETFUND to provide a special grant to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic and another specific request submitted to the Central Bank of Nigeria for the dedicated fund as palliatives to private universities to facilitate their efforts in reopening their institutions.

They appealed to government to look into issues in public universities, such as the ongoing ASUU strike “It is disconcerting that the public universities in Nigeria still have serious unresolved issues with Government while their large size constitutes additional challenges for them to re-open following the guidelines stipulated for re-opening.

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