Prof. Aigbomian thanked all in the university for their support which resulted in the successful completion of his tenure and also congratulated the Acting Vice Chancellor on his new appointment.

He maintained that he was the first to notice the abnormally in the e-payment system and drew the management attention to it but after thorough investigation, “I discovered that it was nothing but a computer error from the office of the Accountant-General of the state,” he said, adding that the money had been paid back into government confers by the school’s management.

Isekhure, who is also the Chief Priest to the Oba of Benin, fielded questions from newsmen in Benin yesterday on the on-going nationwide strike embarked upon by ASUU over the failure of the federal government to implement an earlier agreement it reached with the body and said there was no need for the government to have entered into any negotiation with the university teachers if it knew it was not ready to implement such an agreement.

“Therefore quality education is a fundamental requirement for national transformation. History has it that: Black people built he first civilization; Black people built the pyramid of Egypt; Black people were the first to develop Architecture, Geometry and Astrology; Great Historians, Artists and Mathematicians went to Egypt for their education from 2900BC to 600BC.”

The Director-General of the National Mathematical Centre, Prof. Sam Ale said the research effort speaks volume of the scientific approach being employed by NERDC in solving the nation’s education problems.