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Nigeria: Yar'Adua Halts Niser, UI's Merger
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This Day (Lagos)
12 May 2008
Posted to the web 12 May 2008
Tunde Sanni
Ibadan
Hints emerged at the weekend that President Umaru Yar'Adua has cancelled the decision of his predecessor, President Olusegun Obasanjo to merge the Nigerian Institute of Social Economic Research (NISER) with the premier university, University of Ibadan.
The Minister of National Planning Commission, Senator Sanusi Muhammed Daggash at the weekend disclosed that the cancellation of the merger plan was part of the resolve to make vision 2020 a reality.
The uncertainty about the future of the research institute might have been responsible for the withholding of its allocation for the year as the institute, according go inside sources, has been denied the much needed financial lifeline since the beginning of the year."NISER would no longer be merged with any institution as earlier decided by the former administration. It would continue to remain autonomous so that it can bring forth its maximum benefits."
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"As the think-tank of the government, the institute would not be relegated to the background but would be strengthened to make positive impact on the socio-economic development of the country", he said.To realise this, he noted, plans had been concluded to make a laptop and desktops to all officers from levels 08 and above to serve as incentives for maximum productivity.
The minister assured that the Federal Government would constantly invite top officers of the institute to top flight seminars and workshop to brush up their administrative skills. Daggash was responding to the request of the Director-General of the institute, Professor Tunji Akande for seminars for management and other top members of the institute to enhance their skills.
Akande inundated the visiting minister with the problems militating against the progress of the institute saying "lack of fund to expose staff to quality training, internet connectivity, and erratic power supply" which he noted, had hindered the effectiveness of the institute.Other teething problems facing the institute, he pointed out, included the need to upgrade the standard of the library and lack of funds to expose their research staff to workshops both within and outside the country to keep track with developments in the research community in a rapidly globalizing world.
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