Professor Oloyede, whose tenure in office expired alongside
those of 15 other agencies and parastatals under the Federal Ministry of
Education, formally handed over to the Director, Information Technology
Services, Fabian Okoro, who is the most senior management staff of the Board.
Most chief executives in education parastatals were appointed
on August 1, 2016 and inaugurated on August 2, with a four-year tenure, which
expired on Monday. Notable on the list of affected officers is the Registrar
and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede, who reportedly stayed away from office on
Monday.
Others affected are Executive Secretary, National
Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed; Executive Secretary,
Universal Basic Education Board (UBEC), Dr Hameed Boboyi; National Business and
Technical Examination Board (NABTEB), Professor Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe.
Also affected are: Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria
(TRCN), Professor Josiah Ajiboye; Computer Registration Council of Nigeria
(CRCN), Afolabi Aderinto; National Teachers Institute (NTI), Professor Garba
Dahuwa Azare; and Librarian Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN), Professor
Michael Afolabi.
Other heads of the agencies affected are National
Mathematical Centre, Shedda, Professor Steven Ejugwu Onah; National Institute
of Nigerian Languages, Professor Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche; National Library of
Nigeria, Professor Lanre Aina; National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and
Non-Formal Education, Professor Abba Haladu; and Nomadic Education Commission,
Professor Bashir Usman.
Meanwhile, as lobbying is being intensified for the plum
jobs, analysts believe that there is no vacancy in NUC, Tertiary Education
Trust Fund (TETFund) and JAMB, as the trio are said to have delivered
excellently on their mandate and are likely to have their tenure renewed.
Minister of State for Education, Honourable Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, also spoke
eloquently about Professor Josiah Ajiboye, of TRCN, while appearing on National
Television Authority (NTA), on Monday, where he noted that Ajiboye lifted the
council hitherto unknown to a household name, by bringing issues of teachers to
the front burner while ensuring that only qualified teachers are allowed to
teach children in classroom in the country.
Quite a number of the heads of the agencies were said by the
analysts to have performed abysmally low that would not require any form of
tenure extension.
“This is one of the reasons the Federal Government decided
to allow everyone to hand over. When the Minister is announcing the new heads
of the agencies, those who merit to be returned would be called back,” a source
close to the Minister of Education said.
The National Secondary School Education Commission (NSSEC),
National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), NECO, and National
Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA) all have their
new chief executives recently appointed by the Federal Government. The pen in
the hand of Minister Adamu will determine who goes, who stays or who comes
back.
Some parastatals indicated some of the chief executives have
handed over, as was the case of Oloyede of JAMB, who is said to have handed
over the baton of leadership to the Board’s director of Information Technology
Services, Fabian Okoro.
We learnt that the JAMB’s Director of Test Administration,
Yusuf Lawal, who was employed by the Board in 1989, and is senior to Mr Okoro
in ranking, is currently away out of the examination body for training.
Efforts to confirm from the Permanent Secretary why the
Federal Government has failed to give necessary directive on who the outgoing
heads of agencies should hand over to or appointment of acting or new chief
executives, proved abortive as text message to his mobile line is yet to be
responded to at the time of filing this report.
Meanwhile, a former Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor
Peter Okebukola has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to consider
reappointment of both Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, and Professor Is-haq
Oloyede as Executive Secretary of NUC and Registrar of JAMB respectively. The
renowned educationist in a statement on Monday in Abuja described the duo as
two pillars of higher education in Nigeria that should keep leading the
Nigerian university system.
The first tenure of both Adamu Rasheed and Is-haq Oloyede,
ended on 1st August 2021 alongside other heads of 15 parastatals under the
Federal Ministry of Education. But Okebukola, while calling for the renewal of
the tenure of the duo, said the tenure of Professor Rasheed as Executive
Secretary NUC and that of Professor Oloyede as Registrar of JAMB had been
marked by unprecedented success.
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