By Marcus Ikechukwu
Following the receipt of reports of Visitation Panels to Tertiary Institutions last year, Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, has constituted White Paper Drafting Panels for Tertiary Institutions across the country.
Ten White Paper Drafting Panels have been constituted for 36 universities, while six panels have been constituted for 25 Polytechnics with 21 Colleges of Education having five panels.
One panel is to draft a White Paper for four Inter-university Centres.
A statement signed by the Director of Press and Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Education says, the Panels will be inaugurated in the coming days. All the Panels have two weeks from the date of inauguration to submit their reports.
It is not clear whether the one month warning strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU may have prompted the latest decision to constitute the panels.