Benue varsity clears promotion backlog, 146 Lecturers get Associate, full Professorship

By Peter Duru, Makurdi

146 Senior Lecturers and Associate Professors person been promoted to the ranks of Associate Professors and afloat Professors by the Governing Council of the Moses Adasu University, formally Benue State University, Makurdi.

The acting Vice Chancellor of the University, Prof. Simon Ubwa, who made this known connected Wednesday successful Makurdi, explained that the beneficiaries were those whose promotions had been pending since 2021, 2022 and 2023.

Prof. Ubwa wh,o until helium took implicit arsenic acting Vice Chancellor connected June 11, 2025, was the Deputy Vice Chancellor, DVC, Academic,  said it was incorrect and unacceptable to let the backlog of promotions pending since 2021.

He said: “When I came, determination were 146 Senior Lecturers and Associate Professors who were waiting for their promotions from 2021, 2022 and 202,3, and we desired to wide the backlog of the arrears of promotions.

“It was unacceptable to fto it linger due to the fact that successful thing I do, I besides ideate that if I were successful that person’s shoes. In different places, it could degenerate into a superior crisis. So those promotions were made.

“The archetypal batch was 90, the 2nd batch had 38, and we are going to Council this time, and past we volition release, hopefully, the past batch. So the 146 radical volition get their promotions.”

The acting Vice Chancellor said helium had besides taken steps to code the h2o and powerfulness concern successful the assemblage to guarantee that the unit quarters and hostels had a h2o proviso without pistillate students having to trek agelong distances to get h2o successful the mornings.

He said the powerfulness proviso situation astatine the university, peculiarly the Library, Faculty of Environmental Sciences Complex and School Clinic, was besides addressed successful little than 1 week. “And the 9 powerfulness generators connected field , which were each bad, we got them fixed and moving again.”

Prof. Ubwa who emphasised that helium ne'er allowed country for nonaccomplishment successful immoderate duty said “I idiosyncratic supervise those I springiness assignments. I supervise the cleaners to guarantee that they bash their regular work. I spell circular to guarantee that enactment is done, I bash not let country for failure. That is what being the caput entails.”

On the onslaught embarked upon by non world unit of the University, the acting Vice Chancellor regretted that they had to edifice to the enactment erstwhile each issues astatine involvement had been addressed and waiting for the last motion of the government.

He maintained that the Governor Hyacinth Alia “is good disposed to ensuring the payment of workers successful the state.”

He explained that the Governor had directed the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, and the Head of Service, HoS, to look into the demands of the national “and if acceptable they should contiguous it to him for approval.”

Prof Ubwa said everything was done to guarantee that each parties were connected the aforesaid leafage and a Memorandum of Agreement was signed betwixt the authorities team, absorption and the union. And truthful it was to beryllium implemented.

He said, “The Chairman of Council pleaded that they should beryllium diligent and springiness america up to extremity of September to benignant everything retired with authorities and guarantee that they are paid. He held meetings with the union, saying if you are going connected onslaught successful September and we are saying delight springiness america till extremity of September, wherefore not beryllium a small diligent if you had waited for this long, can’t your beryllium diligent for astir 3 oregon 4 weeks?”

The Vice Chancellor, however, assured that efforts by authorities and absorption were connected to code the issues of the striking workers to guarantee that they instrumentality to their work posts.

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