'No new universities for 7 years' - Senate blocks bills after Tinubu's directive

The Senate has suspended each bills seeking to found caller national universities, polytechnics and colleges of acquisition crossed the country.

The enactment is successful enactment with the Federal Government's argumentation which placed a prohibition connected instauration of caller tertiary institutions for the adjacent 5 to 7 years.

Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele, announced the directive during plenary connected Wednesday successful Abuja.

He said the Clerk of the National Assembly and each applicable committees person been instructed to halt further enactment connected specified bills.

Bamidele explained that the argumentation is aimed astatine strengthening existing institutions earlier establishing caller ones. He appealed to senators to respect the government's presumption and suspend bills seeking caller universities successful their constituencies.

In his contribution, Senate President Godswill Akpabio said President Bola Tinubu had personally discussed the contented with the enactment of the National Assembly.

According to Akpabio, the President is not successful enactment of establishing caller universities, polytechnics and different tertiary institutions astatine the moment, truthful that existing ones tin person capable clip to make their infrastructure and commence afloat world activities.

He expressed interest that galore universities established precocious lone beryllium connected paper, arsenic immoderate are yet to unafraid imperishable sites oregon implicit tract clearance.

"Establishing a assemblage is simply a superior nationalist work and should not beryllium treated with the aforesaid simplicity arsenic establishing superior schools," Akpabio stated.

He said the Federal Government has made efforts to administer national tertiary institutions crossed each parts of the state and what is needed present is consolidation of those investments.

Following the deliberation, Akpabio directed the clerk to guarantee that nary measure for caller tertiary institutions is listed connected the Order Paper henceforth.

The Senate thereafter adjourned plenary till November 10.

The accusation is that implicit 200 bills presently earlier the National Assembly seeking instauration of caller universities and polytechnics volition beryllium stalled oregon abandoned.

'No caller universities for 7 years' - Senate blocks bills aft Tinubu's directive