UB maneuvers to fire Fako

Friday, January 13, 2017

The University of Botswana (UB) Council is under pressure to fire Vice Chancellor Professor Thabo Fako, Mmegi has learnt.

The Council allegedly has been instructed to calculate a strategy to show Fako the door, as higher education authorities have expressed no confidence in the direction of the University under his helm.

Subsequently, there is a fallout between Fako and the Minister of Tertiary Education, Research, Science and Technology, Dr Alfred Madigele; who is gravely worried at the way things are going, sources have alleged.

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