Education
…Pleads For Non-Retirement of Lecturers
A university don,
Professor Rosemund Dienye Green-Osahogulu, has called on the Rivers State Government to reconsider its decision to compulsorily retire lecturers who are sixty years and above.
She made the call recently during the 30th-32nd Convocation ceremony of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE).
“We plead passionately with the State Government to reconsider the devastating implications for the state university system of immediate retirement of all serving officers who are sixty years old or over sixty, their academic standing/readiness notwithstanding,” she said.
Professor Green-Osahogulu, who made the request in her speech at the occasion, noted that implementation of the government’s decision to retire such lecturers in the state-owned tertiary institutions would mean that the universities would lose a considerable number of their good hands.
“If this state government policy actually gets implemented, the grave consequences of the state university system would be so debilitating that the state’s universities would literally crumble,” she said.
This is because, “the residual institution in each case can no longer duly retain its place as an accredited university in the Nigerian University system, as governed by Nigeria universities,” she stated.
The professor of Science Education further explained that if the policy is implemented, given the existing realities, “it will be baseless to hope on the possibility of professional recruitment since most professors worth their salt today, will neither enter, nor remain in a system which will retire them at sixty rather than seventy.”
She, therefore, urged the governor, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Amaechi, as a world-renowned governor of the World Book Capital State, to consider what she called, “Crucial appeal.”
While thanking the governor for the last employment exercise which saw the university employ 350 graduates, Professor Osahogulu used the occasion to request for the employment of “at least 400” staff comprising junior staff, cleaners, gardeners, security, drivers, messengers, etc.
She also urged the governor to do everything possible to ensure the completion of the Iwofe Road, currently under repair.
While assuring on the state government’s determination to enhance the improvement of education in all the state government owned tertiary institutions, the governor noted that the key challenges facing the state government is the accomplishment of projects in the deprivation of the state by the federal government of funds due the state from N25billion to N12billion.
This, he said, is due to the fact that the federal government, under the leadership of President Goodluck Jonathan, has legalized “stealing” in public service.
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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