'YOU NEED BICYCLES,NOT BUSES'- UNN VC tells students

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria,
Nsukka, UNN, Prof. Benjamin Ozumba, Monday
ruled out the possibility of providing intra-campus
buses for students.
This is also as he ruled out payment of promotion
arrears to workers of the institution.
Ozumba disclosed this at the Enugu Campus of
the University during a press briefing ahead of the
UNN’s 55th Founders’ Day celebration.
He announced that Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
would deliver the ‘Dignity of Man Lecture’ on
Wednesday.
While answering questions on concerns raised by
workers over promotion arrears, the Vice
Chancellor said as a matter of the Federal
Government’s policy, payment of promotion
arrears was no longer obtainable.
On the issue of monetization, Ozumba said the
University would make the fund available to the
workers as soon as it was released by the Federal
Government.
Speaking on his achievements so far in office, he
disclosed that his administration had “pursued
our plans, and we have recorded some mileages.
“In pursuit of students’ welfare, we have boosted
regular supply of water in our campuses by in our
campuses by sinking boreholes to students’
hostels.
“We have been promoting and will continue to
promote staff welfare. This administration has
instituted various reward systems to motivate our
academic staff to carry out impact based
researches and scientific innovations and
inventions”.
The Vice Chancellor, who equally stated that the
University had made tremendous leap in rankings
by moving to the 2nd in Nigeria and 13th in Africa,
said two new faculties had been created.
He gave their names as the Faculties of Vocational
Education and that of the Basic Medical Sciences.