Why no lecturer has become professor in two years – FUNAAB

The management of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has disclosed why the university has not been able to promote any of its senior teaching staff to the position of professors in the last two years. The university attributed the situation to the absence of a governing-council, which is empowered to approve such promotions.
Findings by Saturday Sun revealed that a number of lecturers who were due for promotion to the level of professors for the past two years, have been stuck in their present positions.
Some of the affected lecturers, it was gathered, are due for retirement soon. But reacting to the development, the Acting Head, Directorate of Public Relations, Mr Sunkanmi Olajide, via Whatsapp messages, informed our correspondent that the absence of the Governing-Council has made the promotion impossible.
“The absence of the Governing Council has made it impossible. And with the new announcement of appointment of the new Governing Council by the Visitor, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, we hope, when they are inaugurated soon, the newly-inaugurated Council will work on the outstanding promotions,” Olajide stated. Further information to the university’s spokesman that some universities have been making similar promotions possible by going through their supervising federal ministries in the absence of governing councils for their institutions was not reacted to at the time of filing this report. In spite of the absence of governing councils in their institutions, a number of federal universities in Nigeria have recently unveiled new professors.