The visitation panel to the Taraba
State University set up by Governor
Darius Ishaku has said poor
infrastructure and lack of effective
administration has made the school
fall below minimum standard of a
university.
Chairman of the visitation panel,
Prof. Abba Nasir of the
Moddibbo Adama University
of Technology, Yola, disclosed this
while presenting the report of
the panel to Governor
Ishaku yesterday in Jalingo.
According to the report, the state
university was without an
academic planning division,
research
and development centre,
ineffective physical planning unit,
poor and ill equipped library
and poor leadership.
Other requirements lacking in the
institution,according to the
report of the 8-man
visitation panel, are lack of
dependable physical master plan to
guide physical development and
standard curriculum, even as
the panel recommended a
total overhaul of the
bursary department to make it
more effective.
While urging the governor to do
something urgent to turn around
the fortunes of the university in
the overall interest of the state,
Prof. Abba said the panel was not
on a witch-hunt business as some
people were speculating, but that it
was normal routine
practice enshrined in the laws
of universities in the
country whether federal, state or
private to reposition the system for
better performance.
He described the report as a true
reflection of what is needed in
the state university to put it on the
right track towards realising the
dream of its founding fathers and
the high expectations of the people
of the state.
In his response, Governor Ishaku
thanked the panel for the
wonderful work it has done,
assuring that his
administration would carefully
study the report with a view
to implementing the
recommendations to reposition the
institution.

-National Mirror
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