THE Senate has began the procedure of changing Yaba college of era, Lagos, and Kaduna Polytechnic into town universities.
The bills, titled metropolis college of generation Yaba bill, 2016 backed via Senator Gbenga Ashafa, APC, Lagos East and that of city university of technology Kaduna bill, 2016, and backed by way of Senator Jibrin Barau, APC, Kano North, had been added as first analyzing. at the same time as Yaba university of era, Lagos, turned into installed in 1947 as Nigeria’s first higher academic group, Kaduna Polytechnic changed into based in 1956 as Kaduna Technical Institute. in the meantime, a bill for an Act to amend the Tertiary schooling believe Fund 2011 and different matters to approve and checkmate the disbursement of budget by using the business enterprise, the day prior to this scaled 2nd reading inside the Senate. Sponsor of the bill, Senator Jibrin Barau, who stated that the bill was designed to correct the anomaly in Tetfund Act, but, defined that the spending and disbursements of finances with the aid of TetFund changed into a clear violation of the constitution. “The tenement of this bill is to correct the constitutional aberration which become capitalised upon within the latest past to divert the fund to other uses. “it's far consequently sure that when the proposed modification is made to the primary Act, monies belonging to TetFund will be duly secured,’’ he said. In his contribution, Senator Adamu Aliero (APC-Kebbi) stated that it turned into really a constitutional aberration for cash to be spent with out the approval of the countrywide meeting. He said: “within the past, the executive became inside the dependancy of borrowing money, either from TetFund or from ecological fund and spent it with out going thru the countrywide assembly. He defined that the bill, if passed, might be “a safeguard against borrowing money from special price range.”