Technologists lament poor laboratories in universities

NAAT President Comrade Suleiman Sani made the call at the University of Abuja during the foundation laying ceremony of the union’s national secretariat, where he called for judicious disbursement and use of the N200 billion intervention funds released to universities by the federal government. “We don’t have enough laboratories. And we have made presentations to the […]

NAAT President Comrade Suleiman Sani made the call at the University of Abuja during the foundation laying ceremony of the union’s national secretariat, where he called for judicious disbursement and use of the N200 billion intervention funds released to universities by the federal government.
 “We don’t have enough laboratories. And we have made presentations to the government that the equipment we have in our laboratories are not enough. If you want to undertake a practical and you have a class of about 200, the space there is small, the equipment there are few, while some of them are obsolete.
 “We have already told the government. Thank God that we have the NEEDS Assessment Committee in place, and we have made our complaints to the committee and we hope that the N200 billion coming to universities, they will use it judiciously; because allocation papers have already been given to universities and this include purchasing of laboratory equipment, and building standard laboratory.
 “You find out that most of the laboratories we have today are not up to standard and we have been able to talk to our members to talk to the authorities in their various universities to design standard laboratories in accordance to what we have worldwide,” he said
Speaking on the level implementation of the 2009 agreement, Sani said, “I will say that NAAT is not satisfied. Up till now, members have not been paid their earned allowances completely. In fact, the agreement is not fully implemented. We are working and talking with government.”