Prof. Kolawole Salako, the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), has again appealed to the federal government to restore Management courses at the Institution.
Salako lamented that the deletion of the courses at the Institutions has left many lecturers jobless.
He raised the concern on Wednesday while naming and commissioning some legacy projects at the institution premises.
The four projects, including library extension building, agric complex, COLPLANT building, central laboratory building were facilitated by the federal government, according to Salako.
Salako who was vividly worried, complained that several appeals had been made to the federal government to restore the management courses but no positive response had followed the appeals.
It would be recalled that FG had in 2017 directed all specialised universities in the country from running programmes that were unrelated to their mandates to stop such.
Salako noted that the management courses wrre important to agricultural studies, adding that the courses would bring about logistics support like making money through value addition.
The VC argued that agriculture was not just about planting and harvesting as government sees it but business in it entirety, hence the need to for management course in the agric university.
He said “If we really want to practice agric for commercials purpose, we need management sciences. This concept of agric is not just productions of crops, agric has become a business. This is the way it’s being practiced in developing nation.
“We had the approval and we were running the courses of Management sciences, all of a sudden we were told not to admit again. It will be difficult for the students to ever explain that they graduated from this school. The lecturers who were admitted would be looking for another job.
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