N200 BILLION DEAL: NANS SET UP COMMITTEE TO MONITOR ASUU

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The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has set up an
eighteen member committee to monitor the utilization of the N200
billion fund given to universities by the...
Federal Government as part
of its deal with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
NANS president, Comrade Yinka Gbadebo said the committee was to ensure
that there was transparency in the utilization of the Fund and to
forestall further incidence of Industrial Action.
The task force is"to monitor the progress being made and to equally
evaluate the extent of implementation of the felt needs of the
education sector as identified by the Need Assessment Team, ASUU,
Nigerian students and all other stakeholders.
"In this respect, we are inaugurating the NANS Task Force Committee on
the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the entire projects and
programmes for which funds have been mapped out as enshrined in the
fresh accord between the federal government and the Academic Staff
Union of Universities (ASUU)," the president stated.
He added, "the assignment is critical to the successful outcome of
the upgrading plans adopted both the union and the government."