Whither the Nigerian University System? II, by Prof MK Othman As mentioned in the first part of this piece, government officials and others questioning the university's autonomy are either ignorant of the law or being mischievous. The university must be an autonomous system to fulfill its fundamental role in nation-building and to preserve the integrity of its certificates, which are awarded to deserving graduates for character and learning after passing through qualitative, quantitative, and temporal measures validated by internal and external assessors. Tamper with the autonomy, as allegedly done in Nigerian...