Benue Varsity Promotes 146 Lecturers To Professor Rank

Reverend Father Moses Orshio Adasu University, Makurdi (formerly Benue State University, Makurdi), has promoted 146 elder cadre lecturers and subordinate professors to the prof cadre, effectual aft a four-year hold since 2021.

This is adjacent arsenic the Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Terver Ubwa, appealed to the university’s Non-Academic Staff who are connected onslaught to telephone disconnected the strike.

Prof. Ubwa, who disclosed this during an interface with members of the analogous chapel successful Benue State successful his office, explained that the promotions were affected soon aft helium took implicit enactment connected June 1, 2025.

He described the promotions arsenic a captious measurement successful restoring dignity and information among world staff. “When I took over, 146 lecturers had been waiting for promotion for 4 years. Some had mislaid hope. I made it a precedence to guarantee their elevation, and immoderate adjacent received treble promotions,” helium said.

He said, “During my fewer months arsenic Acting Vice Chancellor, I person tackled respective challenges, including h2o shortages affecting some unit and students, which person present been resolved.”

He noted, “Nine generators crossed the field were fixed to guarantee uninterrupted powerfulness proviso and a notable betterment was made astatine the assemblage clinic, wherever a generator was installed to code the contented of inadequate lighting, which antecedently forced aesculapian unit to usage telephone lights to be to patients”

The VC noted that contempt these achievements, the assemblage faces an ongoing onslaught by non-academic unit implicit the non-implementation of the minimum wage and different pending demands.

“Their demands are long, and portion immoderate person been addressed, others are inactive pending. The authorities pleaded for much time, but the national went up with the strike,  urging unit to reconsider their decision, emphasising the government’s committedness to workers’ welfare.

He said the assemblage has besides signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a backstage developer to physique a hostel with a capableness of 1600 to code the students’ accommodation problem. He added that the assemblage volition besides usage Tetfund to conception immoderate hostels, which volition assistance ease  the accommodation problem.

Prof. Ubwa emphasised the value of integrity wrong the assemblage community, informing students that those who postgraduate from the University and marque mendacious accusations against peers oregon lecturers could look certificate withdrawal. He assured that the assemblage is committed to ensuring the close happening is done and would personally oversee the admittance process to forestall irregularities.

Our analogous reports that the university, known arsenic Benue State University, was renamed Reverend Father Moses Orshio Adasu University successful December 2024, to honour the precocious Rev. Fr. Moses Orshio Adasu, a erstwhile politician and laminitis of the institution.