State to probe universities operating multiple accounts

The federal government says it will immediately begin to investigate universities operating multiple accounts in violation of the Treasury Single Account policy of the government in order to tackle corrupt practices in the nation’s universities, adding that concrete efforts would be made to protect whistle-blowers, reports The Nation.

The government also said it intends to find an alternative means of sourcing funds for the revitalisation of infrastructure in the universities, while the office of the Accountant General of the Federation is to immediately commence the process of investigating universities that have since maintained multiple accounts.

This was part of the resolution reached after over nine hours in a conciliatory meeting between striking non-teaching staff of Nigerian universities and the Federal Ministry of Education brokered by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige.
Full report on The Nation site