The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has set up an eighteen member committee to monitor the utilization of the N200 billion fund given to universities by the Federal Government as part of its deal with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
NANS president, Comrade Yinka Gbadebo said the committee was to ensure that there was transparency in the utilization of the Fund and to forestall further incidence of Industrial Action.
The task force is“to monitor the progress being made and to equally evaluate the extent of implementation of the felt needs of the education sector as identified by the Need Assessment Team, ASUU, Nigerian students and all other stakeholders.
“In this respect, we are inaugurating the NANS Task Force Committee on the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the entire projects and programmes for which funds have been mapped out as enshrined in the fresh accord between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU),” the president stated.
He added, “the assignment is critical to the successful outcome of the upgrading plans adopted both the union and the government.”