Cybercrime To Be Studied At UNIBEN, Says Vice-Chancellor

The University of Benin, UNIBEN, said on Thursday that it has begun the process of introducing new study programs in the university to address contemporary global concerns.

Professor Lilian Imuetiyan Salami, the university’s Vice-Chancellor, said her administration has also put in place machinery to assist needy students during an interview with the media to commemorate her second year in office.

“The school recently introduce two-course, Music and Psychology but there are others in the pipeline and we have started the process; some of them include Cyber Security Studies, Computer, and Commerce in which case we are emphasizing e-commerce, we are also looking at Computer Science and Governance that is the study of e-governance, we are also looking at the Study of Data Management,” the VC said.

“We are putting our pen and paper to draw the proposals so that we can go through the processes to get the approval for their study in the University. We are pretty much in tune with the current trend in the world which is the blue business; we can’t be left out of the global trend that is why we are introducing these courses because we are having issues of cybercrime and others so we have to do something to comply with current realities.”

Professor Salami admitted that finances remain her administration’s biggest concern, but she claimed she developed a plan of channeling 30% of the school’s Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) to balance inherited debt owed contractors, adding that the institution spends N60 million each month on energy.

She commented on the recent student agitation following the imposition of a late registration penalty, she said: “Part of the lessons that we learned from the recent student’s protests over the imposition of penalty for late payment of school fees is that there are students who cannot pay their school fees. We have reintroduced the student work-study initiative, in addition, the director of that program is also sourcing for philanthropists to support the scheme and we are using the students union to identify the real indigent students and once we get those students, we will be able to assist them.”