Representatives of not less
than 100 Indian companies on Friday said that more Indian companies and investors were willing to take advantage of Nigeria’s huge investment environment.
He said the union would embark on one week warning strike, the third in the series to draw the authorities’ attention to the union’s position.
“If there are flaws in the upgrade, they could be corrected while the transition goes on; already, there is draft  bill for  onward transmission to the National Assembly,” he said.
According to him, universities of education are trends around the world  with Ghana, Canada, UK, U.S., among  other countries  already having many of such universities.
Haruna said  that contrary to insinuations that the institutions were elevated in a hurry for  political reasons; they had been running  undergraduate  programmes in affiliations with various universities for decades.
He said the four institutions had requisite infrastructure and had made  enormous  progress in the transition process such as inauguration of senate, appraisal and placement  of staff, curriculum  and academic brief.
“We have started 2015/2016 admission process in line with the National Universities Commission (NUC) and    JAMB directives.
“We do not have problem with NUC because it is, we have been having free flow of communication with the commission; they still consider us as universities, we are still on their list and template.
“Our only concern is the recent letter which emanated from the office of the acting Permanent  Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, which is quite  contrary to the normal practice of issuing circulars.
“That letter has a lot of flaws-for every circular to be out, there must be a reference point to the memo that gave that directive,” Haruna said.