President Muhammadu Buhari has charged authorities of Nigerian Universities to emulate the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun state, in ensuring the termination of appointment of lecturers guilty of sexual harassment.
The President made the statement while speaking at the 46th convocation ceremony of OAU at its campus in Ile-Ife, stressing that the lives of female students cannot be entrusted in the hands of randy lecturers across campuses in Nigeria.
Represented by the Director of Education Planning at the National Universities Commission, Dr. Noel Saliu, the President also disclosed that government will not sign any agreement it cannot fulfill with school unions.
In his address the University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Simeone Bamire disclosed that as part of the university advancement, the school was selected among beneficiary of the special ICT broadband infrastructure projects of the federal government, which will further position it as a leading ICT-driven institution.
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