The outgoing Director, University of Jos Advancement
Office,  Prof. Victor Duga has called on
the university authorities to seek out ways to adequately reward hard working lecturers.

Duga, who spoke at a dinner organised for him by the
Carnegie Foundation, said that an effective reward system was crucial to
getting the best from the university teachers.

“A lot of the lecturers work very hard and I can testify to
that. But we can get them to do more if they are recognised and adequately
appreciated,” he said.

Duga, who is now dean, Faculty of Arts, Federal University,
Lafia, called for more encouragement for university workers to double efforts
to boost the quality of products from the ivory towers.

He called for a total transformation of the university
system to encourage more hands and ensure a better impetus to the teaching and
learning atmosphere.

In his remarks, Prof. Hayward Mafuyai, the Vice Chancellor
of the university, expressed the university’s reluctance to release their
professor and also an alumnus to the new challenge.

“We received the news of your departure with mixed feelings.
We were sad because we will miss you and the good work you had been doing in
Unijos.

“The vacuum you have created would be difficult to fill.

“On the other hand, we are happy because the new university
will also benefit from your wealth of experience,” he sai

He told Duga to consider Jos as his first home, adding that
the doors of the university would always be open for him.

“I feel like awarding you a fellowship of the university
right now but if I do that without consultation with members of the senate, it
will amount to dictatorship and I am democrat.’’

It would be recalled that the dinner was attended by deans,
directors, heads of departments, lecturers and friends of Duga, who took turns
to pour encomiums on him.