President buhari oder the reopening of Maritime university

- The federal government will reopen
Nigerian Maritime University before the
end of the year
- The directive given by President Buhari
was part of the Niger Delta New Vision of
the present administration
- A five-man inter-agency committee
headed by the Minister of Education,
Mallam Adamu Adamu will be coordinating
its implementation
President Muhammadu Buhari has
directed that the Nigerian Maritime
University should resume before the end
of the year.
This was disclosed in a statement signed
by Laolu Akande, the senior special
assistant to the president on media and
publicity office of the vice president on
Friday, May 5.
According to the presidency, the
decision is in line with the demands
made by major stakeholders in the
region and also part of the Niger Delta
New Vision of Buhari's administration.
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The presidency disclosed that the
prompt implementation of the directive
to the Ministry of Education would be
coordinated by a five-man inter-agency
committee headed by the Minister of
Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu.
Other members of the Committee will be
drawn from:
Ministry of Petroleum Resources
National Universities Commission
(NUC)
Nigerian Maritime Administration
and Safety Agency (NIMASA) and
Office of the Deputy Governor of
Delta state
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The statement read: " The committee is
to finalise the ongoing processes
towards the opening of the Nigeria
Maritime University in the 2017/2018
Academic Session.
"The committee will work collaboratively
with the current principal officers and
the Governing Council of the institution.
"Besides this, and in further
demonstrating its unalloyed commitment
to a new vision for the Niger Delta, the
Buhari Presidency has been working
assiduously to evolve a number of robust
strategies for key multi-sectoral
outcomes and deliverables for the people
of the oil-producing communities ."
Akande added that there are plans by
the presidency to conclude the fact-
finding tours to the Niger Delta with
visits by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo,
to Cross River and Ondo states.
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He recalled that Osinbajo had visited oil
producing states in the Niger Delta early
in the year under the directive of
Buhari. During the visits, he held series
of town hall meetings and consultations
with a broad spectrum of stakeholders.
The re-opening of the university was
one of the 16-point-agenda presented by
leaders from Niger to Buhari as one of
the requirements for peace in the
region.
Following thehanding over of
government from former President
Goodluck Jonathan to Buhari, the
university has been a contentious issue
over the past two years.
Earlier, NAIJ.com reported that Governor
Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta state said that
the contentious Nigeria Maritime
University situated in Okerenkoko will
begin academic session in September
2017.
He disclosed that the federal
government through the federal
ministry of education has constituted a
committee which includes the state
deputy governor, Barrister Kingsley
Otuaro, to hasten plans which will lead
to eventual commencement of academic
activities in the 2017/2018 academic
year.