FUTO VC Withdraws Appointment Letters Issued To 24 Personal Aides

The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Prof. Ikechukwu Dozie, has announced the reversal of the appointment of 24 personal aides.

This comes as the Vice-Chancellor has been summoned to attend a meeting with officials of the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja on Monday, June 29.

FUTO Registrar, Chiedozie Uba, in a circular dated June 24 and addressed to the university community, disclosed that the appointments previously conveyed through a memo had been withdrawn with immediate effect.

The memo read, “Please refer to our memo Ref: FUT/REG/CR/CIR.4 dated June 22, 2026, on the above subject.

“I have been directed to notify the University Community that all the appointments previously conveyed through the above-quoted memo are hereby withdrawn with immediate effect,” the registrar said.

The reversal came after the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, summoned the Vice-Chancellor to Abuja over the alleged irregular appointment of 24 aides in his office.

The letter was signed by the Acting Director of University Education, Dr. Kareem Olalekan, on behalf of the Minister of Education, but was leaked.

The minister described the appointments as irregular and inconsistent with regulations governing Nigeria’s federal universities.

The ministry said the appointments were “at variance with the extant regulations, established procedures, and the principles of due process governing appointments within the Federal University System.”

The ministry ordered the immediate withdrawal of the appointments and demanded documentary proof that the directive had been implemented.