What I am saying is that for university autonomy to be reasonable and meaningful, there must be financial autonomy given to the universities as well. In fact, that Education Tax Fund should have diverted into establishing endowments for universities over the years share these things among universities, be they state or federal Universities as they are doing now. They should send N10 billion to each universities to start with. Then you can now give more to the Federal universities, its there forever, you are investing capital that will be therefore forever that will outlive everybody, you are now giving over to public sector., the responsibility to run universities. You are totally right.
Universities ought to invest to generate something internally.
But Universities don't have money to invest. Take my university as an example. We have an engineering workshop here that does almost everything including tool manufacture. It can service the public. It has the upholstery, mechanical, tools manufacturing section and all sorts of sections.