Nigerian Universities Earmark N8m For Research, N85m For Cars [SEE DETAILS]

The National Universities Commission has budgeted N8 m for research and development in 2018, while salary bill is to take N1, 434, 223, 306 and N85m was also earmarked for the purchase of motor vehicles at the commission’s secretariat in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

As obtained by Punch newspaper, the figures were contained in the 2018 budget proposal totalling N8.6 trn, which was presented by President Muhammadu Buhari about two weeks ago.

In the 2018 budget proposal, the total expenditure of NUC is N4, 122, 549, 530.

Under the maintenance services , the
commission proposed to spend N3, 357, 885 on the maintenance of office furniture, while the maintenance of office buildings and residential quarters would gulp N60, 075, 664.

Also, the commission plans to spend N9, 739, 246 on the maintenance of generators at the secretariat.

Under the capital expenditure section, the commission allocated N85, 351, 433 for the “purchase of motor vehicles.”

Some of the projects to be continued by the commission in 2018 include the revamping of its websites and the redevelopment of the NUC liaison office in Lagos, as well as the Phase 1 of the Nigerian university system database portal.

Others are the automation of the physical library, university system quality assurance, the purchase of monitoring vehicles, replacement of central inverters and the resurfacing of the commission’s car park.