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A Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Ilorin, Olufunke Esan Olorundare, has stressed the need for Vice Chancellors in Nigerian universities to come together to strategise on how to seek the intervention of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND, corporate organisations, philanthropists and state governments in stemming the current epileptic electricity power situation especially as it affects the universities. Prof. Olorundare, who made this call last Thursday (June 13, 2024) while delivering the 260th Inaugural Lecture of the University, titled “In Sickness and Good Health: Pharmacology as Systems Medicine Research Primer”, said this “situation of darkness in the universities” is unacceptable.

The Inaugural Lecturer further charged TETFUND to “insist on obtaining major equipment directly from the overseas manufacturers, who must not only install the equipment and make sure that they function at the delivery stage, but also enter into maintenance”.

The Inaugural Lecturer further charged TETFUND to “insist on obtaining major equipment directly from the overseas manufacturers, who must not only install the equipment and make sure that they function at the delivery stage, but also enter into maintenance agreements with these companies for the equipment”. She lamented the situation whereby middlemen and contractors who know very little about the functioning of the equipment they supplied are saddled with the task, adding that some of these contractors even supply equipment that will never be put to use beyond a few weeks or months.

The Inaugural Lecturer further charged TETFUND to “insist on obtaining major equipment directly from the overseas manufacturers, who must not only install the equipment and make sure that they function at the delivery stage, but also enter into maintenance”.